Page No.40-52
L.S.S. Manickam
JSS University, Mysuru
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The scientific psychology in India is more than a century old. However, the profession has
not made its mark in the history of the country. In countries where psychology has attained
prominence have received support from the professional psychology associations. They
have played a key role in the development and growth of the profession. Even though
there are commonalities among the objectives of the different psychology associations,
there is a lack of collaboration among them. Psychology associations could provide
leadership in responding to the issues that affect the general public of this country like
issues of farmers’ suicide, disasters, communal riots or public health/mental health issues
in an organized manner. There is a need to develop strategies that would help to achieve
our objectives as mentioned in the ‘Aims and Objectives” of the psychology associations.
From the organizational perspective, striving to bring together all the psychological
associations that have the national fervor under a Federation of Psychology Associations
may be a workable solution and three models of Federation are discussed in this
paper. The proposed six-pronged strategy including Communication, Coming together,
Creating Local Chapters, Consensus Forming, Collectively Working, and Configuration
of Psychology Associations, may help young psychologists to work together to achieve
the objectives of the associations.
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