Psychology and Health Promotion.pmd

It is indeed difficult to locate and evaluate clinical research endeavors related to measurement of change in “Growth Oriented” efforts, as they often lead to “Disasters” in community health programmes. Nevertheless, developmental outcomes in impaired pediatric or adult, rural and urban populations that are affected from cognitive and emotional sequels of acquired mental disorders, need to be enquired into. The onerous and vexing methodological issues concerning the measurement and analysis of change or ‘inertia‘, persists in the vistas of morbidity and mortality. Perhaps, some of the problems of measuring either change or inertia are mere artifacts and inappropriate conceptualizations, as they have emphasized average shift in perspective orientations and outcomes, over individual—micro level changes. Glaring instances of emphasis on the disasters in mental health care institutions and traumatic closed head injuries due to roadside accidents are cases that fall in this realm.