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The burden on counselors has tremendously amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Isolation, contactless work settings, work overload and economic shutdown vividly imposed a drastic change in counselors work environment. It is assumed that the COVID-19 pandemic would have greater adverse results for early-in-career counselors as they have not fully acquired personal agencies of protection against unprecedented stressors otherwise acquired through experience. From amongst the obvious challenges, counselors in the early phase of their careers are also facing discrepancies between their abilities and workload, ethical conflicts of providing services to the most needy over others (due to limited personal capacities), unsatisfactory acknowledgment and ill defined work outcomes due to the pandemic. An imbalance in self-care and personal stress management could create the risk of burnout in counselors .The present study focused on the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in predicting burnout among early career counselors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample for the study comprised of 64 counselors (Males=17, Females=47) who were in the early stages of their career. The Counselor Burnout Inventory by (Lee et al., 2007) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire by (Garnefski et al., 2002) were used for gathering information related to the psychological indices. Regression analysis revealed that the indices of Positive reappraisal and Other-blame negatively predicted Burnout. Implications of the study point towards counselors strengthening their cognitive emotional regulation strategies to evade burnout and provide high quality services to clients during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores how World Health Organization proclaimed the COVID-19 upsurge as a worldwide pandemic on January, 30 2020. Topics include virus has impacted major aspects of human existence from physical to mental health across the globe; and COVID-19 epidemic has prompted depressive symptoms, social isolation, and a decreased sense of well-being contributing to increased psychological distress for people.

Kaschak (1992) has aptly expressed the origin and implications of self-objectification in the quote, "It is in the eye of the beholder, in which women's appearance is reflected, evaluated, and given meaning”. There's an increasing trend of reducing women's bodies as objects of marketing in contemporary media. More concerning still is the documented increase over time in the objectification and an increase in body image consciousness in younger girls. The study focused on reducing detrimental effects of self-objectification on teenage girls using Self Enrichment skill training. It comprised of 4 sessions for the N=60 adolescent females high on self-objectification. (age ranging 15-19 years). The Self-Enrichment training is based upon the principles of self-awareness and self regulation. A pre post experimental design was used to assess efficacy of the training. The Self-Objectification questionnaire by Fredrickson and Roberts (1997 to determine the level of objectification and its psychological impact. Statistical analysis revealed significant differences between the pre-and post-treatment scores of the participants. Implications of the study point towards effectiveness of the Self-Enrichment skill training in helping young girls overcome media induced self-objectification thereby paving way for greater self-discovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An individual's personality provides him/her with a unique set of experiences by virtue of specific personological traits that attune him towards characteristic choices and reaction patterns. Alongside the enormous array of life sustaining adaptive decisions that an individual makes by using the capacities endowed by his personality, he/she is fueled to strive for autonomy and yearning for excellence. In the same light the present study aimed to assess the specific association of personality traits of middle aged Punjabi men as mapped by the NEO PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and Personal Growth indices of Inner Directedness and Time Competence using the Personal Orientation Inventory (Shostrom, 1964). Correlational analysis provided clear linkages between Openness to experience and Conscientiousness dimensions of personality with Personal Growth indices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]