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HEALTH

Health is defined in terms of Hobbies, Exercise, Aerobics (physical factors) and Lifestyle, Thinking, and Happiness (psychological factors) Husain and Khan (2012)

MENTAL HEALTH

This article focuses on the concept and definitions of mental health and also discusses the determinants of mental health in positive terms such as Meaning in Life, Emotional Stability, Nurturance, Temperament, Adjustment, Life Satisfaction as MENTAL; and Hope, Environment, Altruism, Lifestyle, Tension and Hardiness as HEALTH. (Husain & Khan, 2013).

Sehat(Health)

This model contains five factors of health. These are: Spiritual health, Eating and Drinking, Healthy environment, Avoidance of Infectious diseases and Abstention from harmful Substances, and Therapeutic interventions. (Husain, & Qayoom, 2020).

WELL BEING

Husain (2014) suggests few names of the dimensions of well-being. General well-being can be defined in terms of the biobehavioural and spiritual factors such as ‘Will-to-Meaning’, ‘Empathy’, ‘Liveliness’, ‘Love’, ‘Belief’, ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Inner Resource’, ‘Neural Substrates’, and ‘Gratitude’.

CAPACITY BUILDING

There are eight central aspects for understanding both concepts: Creativity, Access to Knowledge, Power, Accountability, Commitment, Industrious, Trust, and Yearning (CAPACITY) and Benevolence, Uprightness, Instructional Guidance, Leadership, Dispositions, Intellect, Nobility and Growth (BUILDING). Capacity building needs knowledge that gives access to these aspects of behaviour that guides teachers’ activities and gives direction to them (Husain, 2015)

CAPACITY BUILDING

This model is proposed to understand the concept of capacity building in relation to teachers. This model includes factors such as Creativity, Access to knowledge, Power, Accountability, Commitment, Industrious, Trust, and Yearning (CAPACITY), and Benevolence, Uprightness, Instructional guidance, Leadership, Dispositions, Intellect, Nobility, and Growth (BUILDING) (Husain, 2017).

HAPPINESS

can be conceptualized as an outcome that reflects the conditions in a person’s life. The authors suggest that happiness may be defined in terms of certain psychological factors, namely, Health, Attributional Style, Positive Thinking, Positive Emotions, Interpersonal Relationships, Nature, Extraversion, Social Support, and Self-esteem. (Husain & Zehra, 2015)

HAPPINESS

Essential elements of practicing happiness-- Healthy Heart, Activity/Action, Positivity, Pleasurable Experiences, Intellect, Nonattachment, Environment, Success, and Subjective Well-being (Husain & Faizee, 2024).

EXCELLENCE

An analytical model of EXCELLENCE is suggested which endorse the relationship between excellence and Education, excellence and Knowledge (X Factor), excellence and Challenge, excellence and Enrichment, excellence and Life goals, excellence and Learning, excellence and Enlightenment, excellence and Needs, excellence and Creativity, and excellence and Equity. (Husain, 2015)

YOGA

Yearning, Observances, God-consciousness, and Abstentions and Awareness (Husain, 2016).

YOGA

A Holistic Approach to Develop Youthfulness, Obedience, Good Heath and Awakening (Husain, A., Sharma, P., & Singh, R., 2021).

CONSCIOUSNESS

Husain (2016) classified consciousness into the following types

SPORTSPERSON

Husain and Anas (2016) discuss the essential qualities to become a skillful sportsperson. The qualities have been identified and understood from the ‘SPORTSPERSON.’ They are

FLOURISHING

can be understood with a new analytical approach via freedom, Life Satisfaction, Outgrowth, Unconditional Love, Relationships, Inner Strength, Social Support, Hope, Inspiration, Nobleness, and Good Action (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

FLOW

Feedback, Life Satisfaction, Optimal Experience, and Well-being (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

FORGIVENESS

can be understood as Faithfulness, Obedience, Rumination, Good company, Intention, Values, Extraversion, Nature, Emotions, Sincerity, and Sacrifice (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

GRATITUDE

Generosity, Reciprocity, Almsgiving, Thankfulness, Intuition, Transcendence, Unity, Divinity, and Experience (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

HOPE

Happiness, Optimism, Perseverance, and Emotion (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

OPTIMISM

Order, Performance, Thinking, Intrinsic motivation, Mental Health, Intraception, Self-efficacy, and Meaning in Life (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

RESILIENCE

Recovery, Eustress, Self-Efficacy, Inner Strength, Life Skills, Insight, Emotional Intelligence, Needs, Causal Attribution, and Emotional Processing (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

STRENGTH

Silence, Tolerance, Relationships, Endurance, Non-Violence, Goodness, Truth, and Happiness (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

WISDOM

Will to meaning, Intellect, Spirituality, Divine Quality, Optimal Maturity, and Meaning in Life (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

SOCIAL SUPPORT

Structural Support, Others Support, Community Support, Informational Support, Affective Support, Life Support, Spiritual Support, Unconditional Support, Parental Support, Perceived Support, Organizational Support, Received support, and Tangible Support (Husain & Nazam, 2018).

SOCIAL SUPPORT

Thirteen types of social support are considered in relation to prevention of elder abuse. They are

MEDITATION

Mindfulness, Enlightenment, Divine Connection, Invocation, Transcendence, Attention, Transaction, Inner Enrichment, Optimal Experience, and Non-Violence (Husain & Hasan, 2019).

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

One responsible way to explain the phenomenon is with the acronym, Will power, Optimism, Morality, Emotional poise, Need for approval, (WOMEN) Education, Mental health, Perseverance, Open-mindedness, Work-family-life balance, Emotional intelligence, Responsibility, Motivation, Equality, Nutrition and Thoughtful (EMPOWERMENT). (Husain & Jamal, 2019)

STRESS

Husain and Rahman (2019) have made an attempt to conceptualize stress as a stimulus, stress as transaction, stress as a response, environment as a source of stress, social factors as the cause of stress, and spiritual distress.

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Managing stress is the goal of everyman. Here we suggest that psychospiritual strategies, namely, Social Support, Temperance, Reading Scripture, Emotions and its Control, Stress Inoculation Training, Spiritual Practices, (STRESS) Mind, Activity, Novelty-seeking, Attributional styles, Gratitude, Experience, Meditation, Eradicating Desires, Needs and Thoughts (MANAGEMENT) are continuously influencing our coping behaviour or we are being influenced by these psychospiritual strategies. (Husain, 2019)

MORALITY

Moral Reasoning, Orderliness, Rectitude, Action, Livelihood, Infinite Power, Truth, and Yen

ETHICS

Psycho-educational Factors Linked with ethics are—Education, Truthful Living, Heart, Inner Values/Qualities, Conduct, and Selfishness.

VALUES

Within personal world, one can create any concept related to values such as Valence, Attitude, Life pattern and circumstances, Understanding behaviour, Enduring belief, and Societal norm. Types of values

IDYLLIC Personality

Factors of idyllic personality are -- Indelible faith, Determination, Yearning, Loving, Lucidness, Integrity, and Contemplation (Husain, 2024).

ALIENATION

Factors of alienation are

COVID

Communion, Overcome Fear, Vital Signs, Infections at Bay and Direction to Life in Coping With Covid-19. (Husain, A., & Pervez, R., 2021).

COVID

Cultivation of four sublime attitudes, Opening of Social Welfare Scheme, Virtual Technology, Improving Immunity and Distraction Approach. (Pervez, R., & Husain, A., 2020).

Positive behaviour

Change in thinking and outlook, Online technology, Vitality, Inward-looking orientation and Disciplined.

Negative emotions and behaviours

Chronic stress, faced an Obstacle, Violence (especially, domestic), feeling of Insecurity and Aafiyat, and Despair. (Husain, A., & Pervez, R., 2020).

Compassion, Obligation, Vitality, Intimacy, Distancing

(Husain, A., Javed, S., Hasan, A., Nazam, F., Anas, M., & Qayoom, S., 2020)

CORONAVIRUS

Cleanliness, Optimism, Resilience, Obedience, Nourishment, Attachment with God, Ventilation, Inner Strength, Reading Scriptures, Unity, and Social Support , (Husain, A., Javed, S., Hasan, A., Nazam, F., Anas, M., & Qayoom, S., 2020)

Publications

Books:

New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House. ISBN: 81-8220-139-X.

Hyderabad: Centre for Study and Research. ISBN: 935258909-2.

New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House. ISBN: 978-93-.86603-40-1.

New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House. ISBN: 978-93-.86603-47-0.

New Delhi: Qazi Publishers & Distributors. ISBN: 978-93-84973-97-1.

Aligarh Muslim University: Publications Division. ISBN: 978-81-951710-4-0.

New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House. ISBN: 978-81-.947716-6-1.

New Delhi: Institute of Objective Studies. Genuine Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd. ISBN: 978-93-91659-25-7.

New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House. ISBN: 978-93-.90423-10-1.

New Delhi: Institute of Objective Studies. Genuine Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd. (In Press)

EMPIRICAL PAPERS PUBLISHED IN NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS (WEB OF SCIENCES)

Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research, (AJMR), 7(6), ISSN: 2278-4853. Impact Factor: SJIF 2017 = 5.443

International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology, 3(2), 1-5. ISSN: 2469-9837.

International Journal of Recent Trends in English Language Teaching (ELT), Education, Psychology and Allied Researches, 2(6), 173-183. ISSN: 2350-1499 (Online), 2350-0751 (Print). Impact Factor: 1.5

Indian Journal of Psychology (Special Issue), 83-91. ISSN: 0019-5553.

THEORETICAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS (WEB OF SCIENCES) AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCES/SEMINARS

Mind and Society, 10, (III & IV), ISSN: 2277-6907.

Journal of Indian Health Psychology, 14(20), 1-8. ISSN: 0973-5755.

IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review, 7(5-11), 1403-1405. ISSN-2347-3797. UGC Journal No. 41948.

IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review, 7(2), 292-299. ISSN-23473797 UGC Journal No. 41948 and NAAS Rating 2.72.

In N. A. Ab. Majeed (Ed.) Proceedings of the Two-day International Conference on Social and Spiritual Teachings of the Quran in Contemporary Perspective (pp. 222-230). New Delhi: Excel India Publishers.

In M. M. S. Nadwi Azhari (Ed.). National Seminar on Peaceful Co-existence in multi-cultural societies – The Quranic Perspective (pp. 169-176). New Delhi: Excel India Publishers. ISBN: 978-93-83842-18-6.

Journal of Distance Education and Management Research, 1, 1-10. ISSN: 2278-9251

Proceedings of UGC National Seminar on Psychosocial Antecedents and Moderators of Environment. Department of Psychology, Banwari Lal Jindal Suiwala PG College, Tosham (Bhiwani) Haryana, pp. 73-77.

Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, 1(1-2), 27-29. ISSN: 2249-4937.

The Preston Journal of Social Sciences, 1(1), 1-10. ISSN: 0092-91-5845540-1

PRASAR: Contemporary Journal of Population and Adult Education, 1, 89-93.

Chapters in Book and Edited Books:

New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 978-1-032—00546-1 (pbk). DOI: 10.4324/9781003181415.

In A. Haque and A. Rothman (Eds.) Islamic psychology around the globe (Chapter 4, pp. 73-91). Washington: International Association of Islamic Psychology.

In A. Husain (Ed.) Contemporary trends in Islamic psychology (pp. 13-25). Hyderabad: Centre for Study and Research. ISBN 935258909-2.

In A. Husain (Ed.) Contemporary trends in Islamic psychology (pp. 26-36). Hyderabad: Centre for Study and Research. ISBN 935258909-2.

In A. Husain (Ed.) Contemporary trends in Islamic psychology (pp. 82-95). Hyderabad: Centre for Study and Research. ISBN 935258909-2.

In A. Husain (Ed.) Contemporary trends in Islamic psychology (pp. 135-156). Hyderabad: Centre for Study and Research. ISBN 935258909-2.

In S. Aleem and N. Iqbal (Eds.) Positive vistas on health and well-being (pp. 1-9). New Delhi: Excel India Publishers. ISBN: 978-93-85777-34-9.

In A. Husain, A. Khan, S. R., Khan, A.R., Hamdan, R., Ahmad, & M. S. Mustafa (Eds.) Advances in Applied Psychology and Education (pp. 149-158). New Delhi: Research India Press. ISBN: 978-81-89131-88-3.

In A. Husain, A. Khan, S. R., Khan, A.R., Hamdan, R., Ahmad, & M. S. Mustafa (Eds.) Advances in Applied Psychology and Education (pp. 353-366). New Delhi: Research India Press. ISBN: 978-81-89131-88-3.

In S. Saini (Ed.), Positive Psychology in the light of Indian traditions (pp. 656-672). Haryana: Indian Association of Health, Research and Welfare. ISBN: 13: 978-81-920053-9-3.

In R.C. Sobti, J. Mohan, M. Sehgal, V. Sobti and S. Sharma (Eds.), Biopsychological impacts in the era of science and technology (pp. 243-262). Delhi: Narendra Publishing House. ISBN: 978-93-82471-82-0.

In J. H. Ellens (Ed.) Volume Three – End time and afterlife in Islamic, Buddhist, and indigenous cultures (pp. 41-52). Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. ISBN: 978-1-4408-0183-9.

In A. Husain & N. Idris (Eds.) Dimensions of Education, (pp. 19-30). New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House. ISBN: 978-81-212-1031-7.

In M. Rafique (Ed.) Development of Islamic Religion and Philosophy in India. Volume VII Part 5 (pp. 219-230). New Delhi: Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture (PHISPC), Centre for Studies in Civilizations (CSC). ISBN: 81-87586-37-0.

In R. Singh, A. Yadava., & N. R. Sharma (Eds.) Health Psychology. (pp. 329-340). New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House. ISBN: 81-8220-109-08.

PAPERS PRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/ SYMPOSIUM

Two-day International Conference on Social and Spiritual Teachings of the Quran in Contemporary Perspective. K. A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, April 4-5, 2016.

International Seminar on Psychology of Trauma: Women and Children in Violent Conflict. Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, March 13-14, 2013.

International Conference on Positive Psychology: A New Approach to Mental Health. Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, 6th-8th August, 2010.

International Conference on Positive Psychology: A New Approach to Mental Health. Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, August 6th-8th August, 2010.

The 17th International Transpersonal Conference on Consciousness Revolution: Transpersonal Discoveries that are changing the world. Alpha Hotel, Moscow, June 23-27, 2010.

The 7th World Conference on Muslim Education (WORLD-COME 2009). Blue Wave Hotel, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia 21st-23rd December, 2009.

International Conference on the Concept of Psyche in Islam. Jointly organized by the Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, and Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi, India. 26-28 October, 2009.

International Conference on Education for All. Jointly Organized by University of Malaya and Malaysian National Commission for UNESCO. The Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, 17-19 August, 2009.

International Seminar on Educational Management, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 27-29, November, 2007.

Regional Seminar on Islam Hadhari 2007: Islamic and Arabic Education, 10th-12th August 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

7th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP). University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, 25-28 July, 2007.

International Seminar on Islamic Leadership 111. Academy Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 10-11 July, 2007.

International Seminar on Hifzane Sehat Aur Mahauliyat (Hygiene and environment). Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, A.M.U., Aligarh, March 2005.

Shah Waliullah Dehalvi’s Tasawwuf, Aligarh-2002.

PAPERS PRESENTED IN NATIONAL CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

National Seminar on Religious Philosophy, Indian History and Culture, Aligarh, June 2003.

National Seminar on Quran and Science. Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh, January 8-10, 2003.

National Seminar on Religious Philosophy, Indian History and Culture, Aligarh, June 2003.