Welcome to the Department of Psychology
The post-graduate Department of psychology, Sardar Patel University was started in 1981 with a view to provide specialized training and teaching in the discipline of Psychology for students coming with rural background. It had 7 students to begin with, with only one teacher in 1982. With added faculty strength the Department Started providing specialization in Industrial/Organization and Abnormal/Clinical areas along with option for Dissertation in lien of elective paper, at the post-graduate level. Not only that in 1994, the department introduced one year M.Phil programme in Psychology, the only Department in the state of Gujarat to provide such a programme in Psychology. The Department also started providing facilities for doctoral research, mainly in applied and different specific area of Psychology subject.
The Department has remained fairly active, both academically and professionally, during this period. It has the destination of organizing successfully seminar/conferences/workshop, both at the regional, national and International level. In addition the Department had under taken activities like organizing mental health hospital training programme.
The main areas of research which were under taken by the Department were of applied nature like mental health, old age’s institutionalized, Internet addict peoples, Delinquency and Child related problem, Domestics violence, Tribal people, wicker section related problems, HIV effectives Peoples, crime related, TB and diabetes challengers, meditation intervention, job-enrichment, organizational health, managing stress, and all types students, teachers and other related employees effectiveness of psychology related problems etc. at M.Phil & Ph.D Level.
A proposal prepared for conducting Research Methodology Course for SC/ST/OBC and minority to status of National Research course on the theme of fundamental qualitative Research Methodology proposal was sent on our letter from No.G/Psy/RMC/19-20, dated: 13/09/2019., To, The Head, T.C.B. Division, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Aruna Asfali Marg New Delhi-110067. Fortunately, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) accepted the proposal and granted permission to conduct the above said Research Methodology Course with financial support of 5.50 lakhs. The Course approved by ICSSR and Permitted by University letter: No.G/Psy/SM/ICSSR/5382, dated: 01/03/2021 to organize 10 days RMC during 18th March 2021 to 27th March-2021. As per ICSSR declared with the send the letter from the position of Prof. S.M.Makwana was appointed as a Course Director and Prof.R.M.Rathod, Professror, Department of Business Administration (MBA) was nominated as Co-Course Director. All formalities finished at ICSSR levels and account also submitted at without any query, we feel very porud to conducted the course as per guideline of ICSSR and Sardar Patel University.
The Indian science congress Kolkata and Science and technology department, Government India, organized international conference on 3-7 five day’s, as a January 2020 of University of Agricultural and sciences at Bangalore – Karnataka Guest of honor Prime Minister of India shree Narendra Modi with General president of ISCA Prof Prof.K.S.Rangappa with 11, sectional president of different sections and one of the sectional president as a Prof,S.M.Makvana a section of Anthropological and behavioral sciences including Psychology, Home science, archeology, military science and social sciences above photos in the last row seating in fourth number.
Welcome and Introduction by Dr. N. V. Shastry, as as seminar Coordinator, he was delivered the lecture at this platform for purpose of National seminar he was conducted Introduction to Seminar to Prof. G. Sandhya Kiran, Convener, Address by Guest of Honour by Dr. A. K. Saxena former General President ISCA Kolktata, Dr.Vijyalaxmi L. Saxena she was delivered Presidential Address and she was General President of ISCA, Vote of Thanks by Prof (Dr.) Suresh Makwana, Coordinator of the seminar.
Brief report of One Day National Seminar on Paradigms and Opportunities for Cross Disciplinary Research in Science and Social Sciences with a Focus on National Development (Under the auspices of Indian Science Congress Association, Baroda Chapter) on March 06, 2021 At Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidynagar-388120, Gujarat