Class 11 Summer Internship at Moolchand Medcity for Psychology students

Five students of class XI- Arunima Palit, Suraj, Lakshay and Vanshika were accorded an opportunity to explore the world of psychology which lies outside the books, during a six day summer internship programme starting June 1st , 2016 at Moolchand Hospital. On the first day, we were accompanied by our psychology teacher, Ms. Sukhmeen Cheema to meet Dr. Jitendra Nagpal, Senior Consultant, Psychiatry and Child Health Psychology. We also met some interns who were bachelors and masters students at Delhi University. Dr Nagpal briefed us about all the activities we would be undertaking in the following days.

For the next few days we had sessions with Dr. Nagpal and Clinical Psychologist, Ms. Aastha Sharma about various psychological disorders like: Clinical features of Depression Cyberbullying through blogs and instant messaging Adolescent issues like substance abuse Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and other anxiety disorders Learning disorders like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia etc These interactive sessions were supplemented with case studies that brought a greater understanding of these concepts. For instance, a lady washes her hands repeatedly as she thinks they get dirty each time she uses them for her chores etc. but when a normal person looks at her hands, they look perfectly clean. Even if she touches a doorknob she gets obsessive about her hands being dirty and is driven to perform the compulsive act of washing repeatedly. The cause of this kind of behaviour is deep-rooted anxiety. In the end we were asked to prepare projects based on our understanding on cyber-bullying. We submitted the projects after the requisite research and these were much appreciated by the seniors. Interactions with seniors in the field gave us first hand insight into the prospects in this field, ranging from clinical and counselling psychology to organisational psychology and how psychology is becoming one of the most sought-after courses in India owing to a huge amount of awareness about mental health in India. We chose this internship because of our interest in the subject and we cant stop thanking School for exposing us to such a vast treasure of experiential knowledge available from the experts themselves.