Basra University holds a cultural symposium on harassment, its forms and patterns, and its psychological impact on women
Media and Public Relations Unit
Proceeding from the college’s role in treating society’s problems and its role in rehabilitating energies to serve it in the future, the College of Education for Human Sciences established the Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit, in cooperation with the Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences, a cultural symposium on harassment and electronic blackmail, its forms, patterns and psychological impact on women on 11/30/2021 attended by Mr. Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs, Prof. Dr. Asaad Abbas, Head of the Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences, and professors and students of the college departments
The symposium in which Dr. Batoul Ghaleb Al-Nahi (Director of the Psychological Counseling Unit at the college) lectured included harassment and explained an analysis of the psychology of the harassed individual as an anti-social personality. It also focused on the effects of harassment on mental, physical and psychological health, as it causes stress, anxiety, depression and difficulty in concentrating. The lecture also showed that the treatment is to restore self-confidence, increase awareness in the use of social media, be careful when using it, maintain the confidentiality of their personal information, and think about the future. The symposium included direct dialogues with students on the topic of electronic harassment and extortion
At the conclusion of its work, the symposium recommended the necessity of drawing up an intensive study by jurists of the penalties due against harassing and blackmailing persons, coming up with deterrent legal materials, activating the role of the media, holding periodic seminars in educational institutions, and activating the role of the Ministry of Interior and Communications.
Note that the date of holding the symposium coincided with the week of combating violence against women based on the directives of the Dean of the College and the Presidency of the University
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