Psychology in Action

 

 

Programs' Overview & Projects

 

The Programs of Sukoon, also called Divisions, are aimed to provide both psychosocial support and psychosocial services. The Psychosocial Support activities are entirely free of charge, provided on complete volunteer basis and are funded by Sukoon's internal resources.  These activities are intended to be delivered throughout the country; however, it is not possible so far due to the limited funds available. The Psychosocial Services are activities designed to generate income for Sukoon's volunteer work as Sukoon is not funded by any donor agency. These activities also intend to promote Psychologists and Psychology.

The Projects of Sukoon, besides the general Psychosocial Support through Programs, are designed for a targeted population and include specific short-term activities. These projects are also funded by Sukoon herself.

 

 
 

Programs / Divisions of Sukoon:

 

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Sukoon Psychotherapeutic Clinics

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

  • Psychological Treatment

  • Faith Healing

  • Telephonic Counseling

  • Marital Adjustment Analysis & Uplift

  • Outreach

  • Mental Health Literacy

  • Advocacy

 

 

  • Psychotherapy

  • Psychological Counseling

  • Psychological Testing

  • Life Healing

  • Emotional Healing

  • Para-Psychological Exercises

  • Beautification Therapies

  • Psychological help in pre and post surgery

  • Rehabilitation Services

  • Sukoon Trips

  • Abbottabad

  • Peshawar

  • Haripur

  • Islamabad

  • Rawalpindi

 

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Sukoon Centers for Legal Advice

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

  • Legal Advice

  • Promotion & Protection of Human Rights

  • Information dissemination on Human Rights

Not applicable so far

  • Abbottabad

  • Peshawar

  • Haripur

  • Mansehra

  • Mardan

 

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Sukoon Club

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

  • Mental Health Literacy through Mental Health Activists

  • Career Development through Internships & Employment

 

  • Psychological Insurance for Individuals for assuring an adequate mental health

  • Psychological Insurance for Organizations and Industries (to facilitate in Human Resources’ Management)

  • Pakistan

 

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Sukoon Home of Wisdom

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

  • Short Course in Logic & Critical Thinking

  • Seminars & Open Debate Forums

 

  • Short Courses in Applied Psychology

  • Beautification Courses

  • Vocational Training

  • Research

  • Abbottabad

  • Islamabad

 

 

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Sukoon Educational Support Division

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

  • Teacher Training Workshops

 

  • Education for Psychosocial Growth (delivery of extra curricular psychosocial activities within educational institutions)

  • Improving Outlook & Image of institutions

  • Establishing a Quality Assurance Department

  • Media & Advertisement Services

  • Research

  • Pakistan

 

 

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Sukoon Alliance

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

Psychosocial Enterprise Development  

Capacity Building of Community Based Organizations

 

Program not initialized yet

 

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Sukoon Media & Advertisement Cell

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

Not applicable so far

 

  • Documentary Movie Making

  • Electronic Advertisement

  • Visibility / Publicity Material Designing and Printing

  • Website Development

  • Event Management

  • Information Campaigning

  • Pakistan

 

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Sukoon Institutional Capacity Building Program

Psychosocial Support

Psychosocial Services

Locations covered so far

  • One-Day Workshop on “Fundamentals in Human Rights”.

  • One-Day Workshop on “Basic Psychosocial Problems and Issues of Concern”.

More than 30 training workshops in:

  • Human Rights

  • Psychosocial Support

  • NGO Management   

  • Pakistan

 

Support in Research

Sukoon can facilitate organizations, companies, institutions or individuals in research related assignments, e.g.:
  • designing research model
  • conducting research / data collection
  • research analysis / scoring
  • research report writing / publication
  • evaluating research, etc.

 

 

Psychosocial Services in Forensic Psychology

While incorporating Criminal, Industrial, Organization, and Clinical Psychology; Sukoon offers several useful psychosocial services to law enforcement bodies. These services can bring remarkable impact on peacekeeping processes.

 

Selection of Police / Law Enforcement Personnel:

Selection of the best law enforcement personnel includes job analysis (determining the tasks performed by officers), identifying knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics important to carry out these tasks, measure the extent to which applicants possess those characteristics with the help of certain tests that include structured behavioral interviews, cognitive ability tests, personality tests, physical agility tests, education and experience requirements, assessment centers, bio-data, and background investigations.

 

Performance Evaluation:

After hiring officers, their performance needs to be evaluated to give them their deserving status. Several psychological tests and job-related performance appraisal instruments are developed and administered. Moreover,  the routine behavior of officers is also noticed and supervisors are trained as focal persons to rate and provide feedback to their subordinates.

 

Training:

Sukoon may conduct training workshops for police officers. These trainings include interviewing and investigation skills, criminal Psychology, leadership, motivation, stress management, problem solving, decision making, effective communication, organizational management, employment law, etc.

 

Human Resources Management:

Human Resources Management is a significant part of every organization and can produce remarkable results in performance when works effectively. It involves several principles of Organizational & Industrial Psychology and standardizes itself accordingly. Several human resources’ related issues are usually invisible, intangible, non-quantifiable and neglected in organizations which need to be addressed properly in order to gain the most effective use of employees to achieve organizational goals. Several organizations do possess a Human Resources’ Department; however, due to extreme work load and excessive number of employees, it remains difficult for them to cope with all the issues affecting performance. Sukoon Club, therefore, offers Collective Membership packages of Psychological Insurance to organizations & industries to provide them with an external helping hand to their diagnostic model for human resources’ management. The services offered in this regard include but are not limited to the following:

  • Psychological testing to identify aptitude and to analyze the level of job satisfaction

  • Psychological testing to depict behavioral and personality related shortcomings

  • Psychological counseling for organizational problems in order to improve performance

  • Psychological counseling for adaptation and socialization within organization

  • Identification of training needs

  • Investigations for staffs’ grievances

  • Investigation for the cases of harassment, abuse and exploitation within staff members

  • Facilitation in interviews for hiring staff, etc.  

 

Research:

Sukoon, as of her professional expertise, may conduct scientific studies for different purposes. With special reference to Police and other Law Enforcement Bodies, Sukoon can be extremely helpful in investigating psychosocial variables of different nature. The studies which could be conducted in this regard include but are not limited to the following:

  • Studies based on Criminal Profiling to get possible criminal facts and figures

  • Studies within social communities to analyze the possible trends in crime and peacekeeping

  • Studies to evaluate the psychosocial problems and performance of law enforcement personnel, etc.

 

 
 
 

Sukoon believes that the low self-esteem of the community members creates a vulnerable Protection Environment in which the rights are violated and Psychosocial Issues of Concern arise. The overall living standards of community members are thus affected negatively. Since Sukoon wants to promote Human Rights through Psychosocial Support, her approach to the Development Projects remains a Community Based Approach whereby she wants to sensitize, mobilize and activate the community members themselves to address and cope with their psychosocial problems. This improves the living condition of the target communities and brings Peace and Calm within the society.

 

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