DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY:

The Department of Psychology was established in the year 1995. The Department offers Graduate course in Psychology. The Department has strength of 8 seats in Psychology Honours in an academic session the allotment of which is made by the Govt of odisha through Student Academic Management system (SAMS). The aim of the Department is to teach the subject matter of Psychology in such a way that the students can understand and help themselves and others in a better way and can also use Psychology in dealing with different problems of life. The Department provides an open environment in which every student feels free to discuss personal and subject related matters. The Department has a seminar library from which books are issued to the students. Seminars are also held in which seminar papers are presented by the students.

Profile of the Faculty

Prajna Paramita Majhi, Jr. Lecturer, MA (Utkal University), Head, Dept. of Psychology

Prajna Paramita Majhi has 6 years of teaching experience. She has been working as a Junior Lecturer in Dhenkanal Mahila Mahavidyalaya since her joining in the college in the year 2016.

Prajna Paramita Majhi has 6 years of teaching experience. She has been working as a Junior Lecturer in Dhenkanal Mahila Mahavidyalaya since her joining in the college in the year 2016. She is a very passionate teacher with a very fine sense of understanding the psychological needs of her students. She has attended 2 seminars/webinars. Her specialization is counseling psychology.

Sri Pankaj Barik, Jr. Lecturer in Psychology
MA, M.PHIL, MBA (HRM), Ph.D.(Cont…)

Sri Pankaj Barik has 7 years of teaching experience both at SBR Govt. (Auto.) Womens College, Berhampur and Dhenkanal Mahila Mahavidyalaya , Dhenkanal Odisha . He has been teaching psychology since joining in Odisha Education service in 2016.

Sri Pankaj Barik has 7 years of teaching experience both at SBR Govt. (Auto.) Womens College, Berhampur and Dhenkanal Mahila Mahavidyalaya , Dhenkanal Odisha . He has been teaching psychology since joining in Odisha Education service in 2016. Sri Barik is pursuing Ph.D in Psychology at Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhatisgarh since 2019. He has attended one Induction training programme at Berhampur University conducted by the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha and one Orientation Training Programme conducted by TLC Ramanujan College, Delhi University. Sri Barik has also attended 3 days Financial Training Programme at Madhusudan Academy, Bhubaneswar conducted by DHE, Odisha. Sri Barik has also attended one International Conference on “Psychology the Path Ahead” conducted by Sailabala (Auto.) Womens College, Cuttack in the year 2020 and one National Workshop (VARTAH Counsellors Summit) at GD Goenka University , Gurgaon New Delhi in the year 2023. For his credit Sri Barik has also attended one National Seminar at PG department of Psychology, Utkal University Vanivihar and one National Workshop at PG Department of Psychology ,Ravenshaw University, Cuttack Odisha and 2 state level seminars at SBR Govt.(Auto.) Womens College, Berhampur and Dhenkanal Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Dhenkanal respectively. He has guided more than 200 Dissertation Papers of UG psychology students and near about 120 Dissertation papers of PG Students during the tenure at SBR Govt.(Auto.) Women’s College, Berhampur, Odisha.