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Spring is nature’s way of saying let’s party and Students of NIP celebrated Spring Gala 2016 on 29th April at NIP, Quaid-i- Azam University Islamabad. This whole event was organized by the newly founded NIP STUDENT CLUB under the supervision of Mr. Imran Bukhari, event organizer. The whole week, before 29th

April, was celebrated as sports week and matches of Cricket, Badminton, Chess, Ludo, Table Tennis were played between students of different classes and faculty members. Team of MSc second was the winner of Female cricket tournament. While the most exciting and the most thrilling match of this event was the cricket match played between male students and male faculty and staff members and faculty, and staff team came up triumphed. Mr. Imran Bukhari & Fahad Mukhtar won male faculty & staff badminton tournament. On the day of the Spring Gala, 29th April, NIP was decorated with color bands and flowers, manifesting the true meaning of spring. It was a creative and enthusiastic event involving the students, faculty and staff (the whole NIP family) who were fully engaged in activities like spoon race, sack race, tug of war and musical chair. Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal stood winner among the female faculty member and Mr. Imran Bukhari stood winner among male faculty and staff members in the game of musical chair. Adding to the glare of the event was the singing competition and food stalls that not only gave students with the best of entertainment but also served them with quality food and beverages.

In this IssueFestivity of the Semester: Spring Gala 2016

By: Imran Bukhari ................................................................... 1

Pre-conference Workshops at NIP

By: Sara Imtiaz ......................................................................... 3

Report of Quaid-i-Azam University 7th Annual

Convocation ............................................................................. 4

NIP Outreach Activities

By: Aisha Zubair ...................................................................... 5

Students’ Corner ...................................................................... 6

A Stay Trip to Naran

By: Sadaf Rehman and Sara Imtiaz ...................................... 6

Staff One Day trip to Sajikot

By: Irfan Shakeel ...................................................................... 7

Pride Moments for NIP ......................................................... 7

M. Phil /PhD Researches Completed

By: Naeem Aslam .................................................................... 7

NIP Bags its First Sports Title ............................................... 8

Featured Alumni ...................................................................... 9

Report of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,

Fourth Edition, Pakistan ......................................................10

Issue No. 2, Vol. 35 - April-June, 2016

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Festivity Of The SemesterSPRING GALA 2016

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The event also got extensive news coverage with a number of media houses, Channel 92, K2 Channel and Roze TV, came to report the event with the essence of peace, security and to highlight creativity of students of NIP. The daily newspaper “Pakistan” also published a report regarding the spring festival at NIP. In the end, The Director NIP, Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal, distributed

the prizes among the winner of the games and activities. She also appreciated the Student Club for its enthusiasm, passion, motivation and involvement in making this event a big success. She also showed her hopefulness and optimism for future events to be more improved and successful in their form and spirit.

Reported by: Mr. Imaran Bukhari

NIP-Activities

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NIP-Activities

PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS AT NIP

TWO DAYS WORKSHOP ONENHANCING COUNSELING SKILLS THROUGH COGNITIVE

BEHAVIOR THERAPY

It is always being a proud tradition of National Institute of Psychology to organize workshops on various areas of psychology. Keeping its tradition alive, three preconference workshops have been conducted in context with upcoming 6th International Conference, “Psychology of Gender: Issues and Challenges” on

November, 2016. The purpose of conducting these workshops was to provide joint platform to the psychologists, social scientists, and educationists to exchange and share interdisciplinary approaches and techniques for the better understanding the mutual and reciprocal predicaments.

DSM-5: UNDERSTANDING MAJOR DIAGNOSTIC CHANGES

National Institute of Psychology Organized a One-day workshop on “DSM-5: Understanding Major Diagnostic Changes”. The resource person for this workshop was Dr. Syeda Razia Bukhari who is working as Assistant Professor at NIP. She is Consultant Clinical Psychologist and has been given the charge of “Counseling Center” at NIP. In this workshop, many research-based updates and changes were introduced within the recent release of the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Understanding

As part of the pre-conference workshops, an extensive two-day training workshop was organized on Enhancing Counseling skills through Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). The resource person for this workshop was Dr. Uzma Masroor who was assisted by Ms. Amira Amjad and Ms. Hamna Arooj. The worthy resource person is Chairperson Department of Professional Psychology at Bahria University Islamabad Campus. Other than students and faculty members of NIP some professional therapists were also among the participants of this workshop.

Starting from the conceptual framework of the technique, explaining about the Socratic questioning, the most interesting activity during the training was taking a live case on call on which different groups of participants had to make assessment. For this activity one member from each group was allowed to ask questions from the client and then specify the area that was assigned. Moreover, an understanding was developed about goal setting, psycho-education, and ways to minimization of negative thoughts,

maximization of positive thoughts and downward-arrowing. Director NIP, Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal appreciated the resource person and her team. She also added that NIP will look forward to continue working on such learning based activities with collaborated efforts. In this regard she announced another workshop that is expected at the end of September 2016 on Applied Behavior Analysis. At the end she distributed certificates among participants and presented shields to the resource person.


was developed about changes and appropriately integrating them into clinical practice. During this training, an explanation was provided of the core changes from DSM-IV to DSM-5 including the new non-axial documentation of diagnosis, an overview of a revised organizational structure, and the changes within selected diagnostic categories (i.e., bipolar and related disorders separated from depressive disorders, substance-related and addictive disorders,

somatic symptom and related disorders, childhood

disorders, and the separation of trauma and stressor-

related disorders from anxiety disorders into its own

category). Through this workshop and an interactive

panel discussion, participants learnt about how to

effectively implement these changes into their own

clinical practice.

Reported by: Ms. Sara Imtiaz

NIP-Activities

TWO DAYS WORKSHOP ON THE RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST

(EXNER METNOD)

As part of pre-conference workshops a two-day workshop was organized on “The Rorschach Inkblot Test (Exner Metnod).” Dr. Syeda Razia Bukhari was resource person for this workshop. Workshop was started with introduction that Rorschach inkblot test, Rorschach technique, or simply the inkblot test is a psychological test in which subject’s perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. The use of this test is quite frequent among psychologists to examine personality characteristics and emotional functioning of an individual. It was told that test is employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. Afterwards, scoring methods for the Rorschach were focused that serve to elicit information on symptoms related to depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders. Then

screening methods were advocated for coping deficits related to developmental problems in children and adolescents. Brig (R) Dr. Tanvir Akhtar and Dr. Iffat Rohail were also there among worthy participants for this workshop. Feedback provided by participants was really appreciative. At the end, Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal distributed the certificates among the participants.

7TH ANNUAL CONVOCATIONAT QUAID-I-AZAM UNIVERSITY

Quaid-i-Azam University organized its 7th annual convocation in May 2016. The convocation was organized for the graduates of the following academic sessions. All MSc’s or Mphil’s passed out during spring 2014 to Fall 2014. All MSc’s or MPhil’s passed out during spring 2015. All PhD graduates (from spring 2013 to 31st Dec 2015) The Chancellor’s Medals / Vice Chancellors Medals were awarded to graduates who won in spring 2013, spring 2014, fall 2014. The President, Mamnoon Hussain, addressed the 7th Convocation of the Quaid-i-Azam University at Jinnah Convention Centre. Vice-Chancellor Quaid-i-Azam University Dr. Javed Ashraf was also present on the occasion. He noted with appreciation that the Quaid-i-Azam University was imparting quality

education as a leading public sector university. The President congratulated the graduating students and also distributed medals among position holders. Director NIP congratulated those NIP students who received the degress and medals.


NIP-Outreach Activities

WORKSHOP ON PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING & APPLICATIONS FOR HR PROFESSIONALS

NIP–Counseling ServicesNIP has been involved in various activities that were aimed at promoting mental health and psychological well-being. One of such activities is the initiative to have a counseling centre for students of NIP, Quaid-i-Azam University, and general people from Islamabad/ Rawalpindi. The aim of this centre is to help individuals understand their problem through a different perspective and learn different strategies to resolve them. It focuses on helping the individuals in crises/ problems and supports them to think clearly and resolve their problem in a productive manner.

Appointments can be taken through the incharge of counseling centre

Dr. Syeda Razia Bukhari, Phone: (+92-51) 90644004

Faculty Development Academy (FDA) training wing of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad has organized three days Workshop on Psychometric Testing and Applications for HR Professionals on May 10-12, 2016 at its premises. The basic objective of the workshop is to make valuable contribution towards HR capacity building and professional growth.

Resource persons from NIP including Dr. Rubina Hanif, Dr. Shaista Waqar, Dr. Rabia Muqtadir, and Aisha Zubair have made momentous contributions in the said workshop. Dr Rubina Hanif discussed work related emotional intelligence and its assessment which would be gauged at the time of induction of new employees. Dr. Shaista Waqar narrated basic requisites of career success and subsequently its assessment and pathways to its achievement; while Dr. Rabia Muqtadir enlightened the participants about assessment of job related attitudes including job satisfaction, organizational commitment and related desirable traits of the employees. Aisha Zubair, described basic assumptions and measurement of job-related efficacy. Resource persons also shared the material while equipping the trainees with tools and tips of administering, scoring and interpreting the tests. The focus of resource persons from NIP was two pronged; that is ensuring to impart extensive training in relation to grasp the need for psychological appraisal as well as orienting the participants about the general and specific protocols of psychological assessment. The aforementioned resource persons were greatly appreciated for their dynamic sharing of knowledge and experience with participants.

Participants of the workshop were leading and highly experienced HR executives and professionals of public and private sector rendering their services in national and multinational companies; while few of them were nominated by the essential services

organizations. In the end, each resource person was awarded with appreciation shields by Dr. Mumtaz F. Jaffary, Advisor, FDA.

Contributed by: Ms. Aisha Zubair


Student’s Corner

The most awaited entertainment package of semester was the trip to Naran Kaghan. NIP organized this trip in collaboration with Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC). The distinctive feature of this trip was that many of the faculty members including Dr. Anila Kamal (Director NIP), Dr. Rubina Hanif, Dr. Jamil. A. Malik, Dr. Mudassar Aziz, Dr. Gulnaz Anjum, Dr. Syeda Razia Bukhari, Ms. Irum Naqvi, Ms. Raiha Aftab, Mr. Naeem Aslam, and Ms. Saira Khan accompanied students. In total there were 70 trippers and three coasters were booked for this journey. With reference to planning and making arrangements active faculty members were Dr. Jamil A. Malik and Mr. Mohsin Sajjad who made this trip a successful activity. Before trip students were provided with an orientation where they were briefed about weather conditions of Naran so that luggage might be prepared accordingly. Along with this briefing was also provided about decent conduct during the tour. A week before trip students and faculty member were anticipating about the treat that would be brought about by this outing.

The trip was scheduled on June 2nd, 2016. All faculty members and students reached department and caravan to Naran departed around 11: 00 am. The journey to Naran took the route through Abbottabad and Balakot. On the way, everyone stopped for lunch at a small restaurant next to the running waters of Kunhar River. The River is swollen by glacier melt and meanders its way through the Kaghan valley. After lunch, expedition moved on with rejuvenated energy. Later a small stop was made at Abshaar Café after which excursion reached the destination “Affaq Hotel” at around 11: 00 pm. This is where stay was planned for next three nights.

It was an illusionary first morning in Naran. After having breakfast at the hotel, everybody was looking forward to visit Lake Saif-ul-Malook as was scheduled. It is situated at the height of 10,578 feet (3,224 meters) above sea level, and is the most beautiful lake in Kaghan Valley. It offers an excellent view of the Peak of Malika Parbat Mountain. This lake is a water source for River Kunhar. A dusty jeep track makes its way to Lake Saif-ul-Malook which usually takes an hour. But due to the crowded conditions it took two hours to reach the Lake.

Upon arriving at Lake Saif-ul-Malook, the view was majestic. Snow-covered mountains all around and clear water in the middle was breath-taking. It was amazing to watch snow-capped mountains in June. Faculty members and the students had fun in the snow, enjoying the snow-fights, capturing the view in their cameras, and finally headed back to the hotel to rest for a while, until to go out again to small river nearby the hotel for a pleasant walk at night.

The next day in Naran took more fun for the trippers especially for adventure loving lot, as river rafting in the Kunhar River was planned at that day. It was a new and unique experience for most of the people. Everyone enjoyed the waves of the river and floated along with them. After rafting, a visit was made to PTDC Motel. The students and the faculty had fun around the area, especially on the bridge over the water. After having lunch back at the hotel, sight seekers prepared for another adventure at Batakundi but due to road blockage it could not accessed. In order to led off the disappointment everybody favored to stop midway and make the best of it. Some students and faculty hiked a steep mountain and others moved around the river side. On the way back to the hotel, some

A STAY TRIP TO NARAN


Student’s Corner

NIP STAFF ARRANGED A ONE DAY TRIP TO SAJIKOT

PRIDE MOMENTS FOR NIP

students and faculty members decided to sit on the roofs of coasters. In slight rain showers and cold wind, an impeccable view of the high mountains and the flowing river was indeed one of the best moments of the whole journey.

Then came the last night in Naran, and everybody was eager to make most of it. A fun extravaganza was planned this night and everybody was really enthusiastic to enjoy the bonfire. Amidst the high mountains, cool breeze, warmth of fire, sound of

music, and delicious smells of barbeque, a leaving party from Naran couldn’t be more precious. The next morning, everyone was a little sad about leaving this beautiful place. On the way back, several stops were made for lunch, pakoras, and ice-cream. Everyone was expecting to go home with fun filled memories of Naran, and a small bidding to go back once again!

Reported by: Sadaf Rehman & Sara Imtiaz

A one day trip to Sajikot was arranged by NIP Staff. Around 15 staff members visited to the beautiful waterfall of Sajikot. It is located near Havellian town in Abbottabad district and is situated almost 130-140 Km from Islamabad. Sajikot waterfalls are a three step structure naturally formed in the hills of Sajikot village. Staff played cricket and enjoyed lunch. They thanked the Director NIP to provide this recreational opportunity.

Reported by: Mr. Irfan Shakeel

NIP is proud to announce that Dr. Tanvir Akhtar has recently been awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military) in recognition of the meritorious services rendered by him. He had been student of

NIP from 1990-1998 and did his M.Phil and PhD from NIP.

Dr. Tanvir has provided his services to Psychological Research Cell, Cadet Advisory Cell, testing related matters, administrative and technical support wherever it was needed and is considered expert in Military Psychology. On this honorable accomplishment NIP congratulates Dr. Tanvir and hope that he would continue to add to the pride of Institute.

M.PHIL/PHD RESEARCHES COMPLETED

Ayesha Inam (2016). Effectiveness of Preschool Paths (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) Curriculum to Enhance Social-Emotional Competence (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Evidence on growing trend of mental health issues in children in the context of socio-political instability in Pakistani society calls for remedial efforts at early childhood stage. The present study is conceptualized to evaluate the effectiveness of Preschool PATHS Curriculum to enhance social-emotional competence of children. The curriculum was culturally adapted in the context of urban Pakistani community using heuristic framework of program adaptation. A

quasi-experimental non-equivalent waitlist control group design was used for the effectiveness trial. The sample consisted of 101, 4 years old preschool children from seven classrooms of different private sector school in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, which were selected on the basis of teacher’s perception of frequency of behavioral problems. The classrooms were further divided into control and intervention groups. Pre and post assessments were collected on revised version of Kusche Emotion Inventory-Receptive Subtest (Kusche, 1984), Child Behavior Checklist (1.5-5)-CTRF (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000), and Social Competence Scale-Teacher Version (Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, 1990). Intention To Treat (ITT) analysis was used


Research Completed

to assess effectiveness of intervention on outcome measures using last observation carry forward (LOCF) technique for sample attrition. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to adjust the effects of intervention for scores on outcome measures at baseline. Gender effects on intervention status were calculated by Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Effect sizes were calculated for significant intervention effects. Results showed a significant intervention effect on social-emotional competence and behavioral problems of preschool children. However, there were non-significant differences between control and intervention group on accuracy scores of emotion recognition, prosocial/communication skills and academic skills at posttest. Recognition of emotions variable was no more significant after controlling for classroom strength. Significant gender effects were found for impact of intervention on behavioral problems where boys showed decrease in total behavioral problems and externalizing problems. The study provides preliminary evidence of effectiveness of Preschool PATHS curriculum for Pakistani children. With all the limitations of the study, the present investigation can be taken as a critical first step towards understanding the area of prevention science in indigenous context. This research was supervised by Dr. Naeem Tariq (Rtd) NIP.

Sana Mumtaz (2015). Depression in Elderly: Role of quality of life, Orientation to life, and Locus of control. (Unpublished M.Phil. Dissertation). National Institute of Psychology, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

The aim of present study was to identify the predictive role of orientation to life, locus of control, and quality of life in depression among elderly. Mediating role of quality of life in between orientation to life

and locus of control in predicting depression was also explored. Comparison between elderly residing in old-homes and community settings, and socio-demographic differences on depression, orientation to life, locus of control, and quality of life were also examined. Moderating role of place of residence for orientation to life and locus of control in predicting depression was explored too. Participants.(N= 292) of the current study were taken from old-homes (n = 87) and community (n = 205) including both men and women; age ranging from 60 to 110 years. Measures used included Urdu version of Geriatric Depression Scale by Itrat, Taqui, Qidwai, and Qadri (2007), World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale by Khalid and Kausar (2008), Levenson Internality, Powerful Others, Chance Scale by Younis (2003), and Life Orientation Test by Ayub (2004) along with demographic sheet. All the instruments used in the study had sound psychometric properties. Results revealed psychological health, physical health, and social relationships domains of QOL, orientation to life, internal, and powerful others domain of locus of control as significant predictors of depression. Quality of life emerged as mediator in between orientation to life and internal locus of control in predicting depression. Also it was found that participants of old- home had more depression, more belief in powerful others and chance locus of control, and lower quality of life overall and in three domains that is psychological health, social relationships, and environment. Place of residence emerged as moderator in between orientation to life and quality of life in predicting depression. Depression was more common in women, illiterate, economically dependent, participants having more health problems and those without partner. Findings are discussed in the light of implications for elderly depression. The study was supervised by Dr. Humaira Jami.

NIP BAGS IT’S FIRST SPORTS TITLE

The students of NIP participated in the recently concluded interdepartmental sports tournament and bagged the first title in all of NIP’s history. The team captained by Hasham Tahir out shown some very big teams in interdepartmental tennis tournament 2016 and got 5 silver medals and golden vice chancellor trophy for runner-ups. The team comprised of Syed Muhammad Imran bukhari, Amjad khan, Hasham tahir (C), and Ali Asghar. The team hoped to put forward a much better performance next year and get more position across various other competitions.

Reported by: Mr. Hasham Tahir


Ms. Najda Rizwan Khan got her early education from Islamabad College for Girls, F-6/2, Islamabad. She completed her higher secondary education and graduation from the same institution. For her M.Sc. degree she studied from the acclaimed Federal

Government College for Women, F-7/4, Islamabad in the discipline of Applied Psychology. She successfully completed her M.Sc. in 1st division and received a roll of honor for her meritorious academic performance from the University of the Punjab. After completing her M.Sc. degree, Ms. Najda Rizwan started her professional career as an Assistant Program Officer at the reputable, ROZAN, a well established non-government organization on its media initiative program called “Munsalik”, creating awareness and sensitization of gender inequality and violence against women (VAW). During her 2 year service at Munsalik from 2008-2010, Ms. Najda Rizwan earned opportunities to take lead on many projects owing to her consistent hard work. Among the variety of field work she carried out are, conducting sensitization training on ‘Psychological Support’ for volunteers and field staff of various organizations working in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp areas in Multan and Swabi, conducted training on ‘Stress Management’ with staff of UNHCR, conducted 3-day gender sensitization trainings with journalists from Hyderabad and Peshawar, conducted in-house training for Rozan staff and interns on ‘Gender Sensitization’, conducted focus group discussion with survivors of Women Center Islamabad, and moderated ‘National Seminar for Journalists on Gender’. She further used this professional opportunity to develop and hone her facilitation skills, liason skills, documentation and reporting skills to an international professional standard. Moreover she participated in numerous capacity building events and workshops to grow in her professional expertise. In 2010, she decided to continue with higher education, and started her M.Phil studies at the National Institute of Psychology, Centre of Excellence, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. She completed her

M.Phil Thesis titled “Effect of Parenting Styles on the Relationship Associations between Parent-Adolescent Conflict and Personality Pathology Among Clinical and Non-Clinical Groups” under supervision of Assistant Prof. Dr. Jamil A. Malik in 2012. This M.Phil dissertation was completed under the project titled “Dimensional Approach to Personality Pathology: A Pakistani Perspective”, funded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). Her work is internationally acknowledged in publication of original paper titled “Discrepancies in Parents-Adolescents Conflicts across Gender: A Step Forward in Validation of Conflict Behavior Questionnaire-44” in the recognized Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. At the successful completion of her M.Phil, she received an Academic Performance Award for her academic achievement at the National Institute of Psychology, Center of Excellence, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. She then furthered her professional career as a Lecturer of Applied Psychology at the Islamabad Model College for Women (Post Graduate), Islamabad. In her career as an academician there from year 2012 to 2013. Later in 2013, she shifted to Dubai, UAE, and extended her professional forte as a School Counselor at the Al Salam Private School (UAE). In her capacity as a school counselor provides support to students with emotional and behavioral problems, facilitates small group session, counsels student crisis case, designs and teaches PSHE (personal, social, health and environment) lessons to 3-6 grade level. She also designs, and conducts student workshops of value building and life skills and for teachers and parents as per the needs of institutions. In her aspiration to achieve academic as well as professional excellence she aims to continue her learning. She is currently enrolled in her Diploma in Counselling from the Blackford Centre, London, UK. She strives to maintain a high standard to professional work ethic and aims to foster the intellectual curiosity among young minds and facilitate in grooming their personality. She has an adventure seeking personality and likewise her hobbies include outdoor sports, sightseeing, trekking, and reading.

Written by: Ms. Shamyle Rizwan Khan

Featured AlumniMs. Najda Rizwan Khan

Alumni Corner


NIP Activities

NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHWECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN,

FOURTH EDITION, PAKISTAN (WISC-IVPAK)

Pearson, a world leader in clinical assessments, has recently launched Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition, Pakistan (WISC-IVPAK) from the world-renowned Wechsler series. WISC-IVPAK is one of the most comprehensive assessments of intellectual abilities in children.

The adaptation and standardization project for WISC-IVPAK is a result of an extended collaborative effort between Pearson’s South-Asia office - Pearson Clinical and Talent Assessment (PCTA) - located in Bangalore, India and the National Institute of Psychology (NIP), Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad., Pakistan.

WISC is a global gold-standard in assessment of intellectual ability in children that is used extensively in the subcontinent. With Pakistan norms, this test is now even more relevant for use with Pakistani children. Mental-health professionals such as psychologists will benefit from using WISC-IVPAK in clinical, educational and research settings, across the country. WISC-IVPAK builds on contemporary approaches in cognitive psychology and intellectual assessment, to give professionals in mental-health care a culturally appropriate and relevant tool to support their clinical judgment and guide intervention.

Key features of WISC-IVPAK:• Culture appropriate items• Norms for children in Pakistan• Increased developmental appropriateness• Increased emphasis on composite scores• Increased attention to Working Memory and Processing Speed• More user-friendly administration and scoring• Reflects current theory and practice of cognitive assessment of children

About the Project:The WISC-IVPAK standardization project was conducted at NIP under the direction of Professor Dr. Anila Kamal, Director, National Institute of Psychology. Dr. Saima Ambreen, Ex-Ph.D. Scholar, NIP and Assistant Professor in University of Balochistan, Quetta worked on the standardization study under the direction of Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal. Psychologists, language experts, educationists and psychometricians from Pakistan and Pearson were involved at various stages of this project. The National Language Authority provided their expert opinion in finalizing translations of various subtests.

The different stages of the project were coordinated and monitored by Dr. Michelle Joseph, Senior Manager, Product Development, PCTA.

For product orders and enquiries, email Mr. Akshay Kumar, Manager, Clinical Assessment, PCTA, at [email protected]

For the details about WISC-IVPAK Contact:Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal, Director, NIP: [email protected]

or Dr. Saima Ambreen: [email protected]

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