Prakat Karki- PhD Psychology
- PhD scholar at Christ University
Prakat Karki
- PhD Psychology
- PhD scholar at Christ University
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Introduction
Aspiring researcher in the field of substance use and adolescent mental health. I was most recently working as a researcher at the Cognition, Affect and Behavior (CAB) Lab, Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
July 2016 - present
Cognition Affect and Behavior Lab
Position
- Junior Research Fellow
Education
June 2014 - May 2016
June 2011 - May 2014
Publications
Publications (16)
Background
The cultivation and use of cannabis is historically rooted in the Indian subcontinent and this rich heritage of cannabis use dates back to at least two thousand years. Cannabis remains an illicit substance in India despite its changing status globally with many countries legalizing cannabis use in recent years. Scientific research on can...
The paper highlights a few issues that have emerged over the years in the understanding and practice of existential psychotherapy. It starts out by tracing the existential and phenomenological traditions of the early 20th century which led to the emergence of existential psychotherapy. Next, it highlights the relationship between existential philos...
The COVID-19 pandemic started in India in March 2020 and has been affecting the country for more than a year now, and it has forced most educational institutions in the country to suspend physical instruction for months. During this period, millions of students have shifted to online platforms for learning, which has gained prominence as an effecti...
Academic engagement refers to the quality of effort or involvement that students themselves devote to academically and educationally purposeful activities. Academic engagement is directly related to the outcomes of academic courses as well as future job prospects and career success of students. The interplay of institutional or contextual variables...
Chronic diseases refer to a collection of diseases which take decades to fully establish and are largely untreatable. The most common ones include diabetes, stroke, cancer, hypertension and heart/cardiovascular diseases. They are responsible for more than half of total deaths each year worldwide, and the incidence has grown tremendously over the la...
Environmental sustainability (ES) emerged in response to the felt negative consequences of overexploitation of the environment and natural resources. ES has gained momentum in recent decades in areas of social policy, means of production, development, economy and everyday individual behaviours. The drive towards ES has been firmly based in scientif...
Background
Substance use is a serious public health concern and young adults in India often use multiple substances, often together. There is a dearth of research examining this and its neuropsychological consequences. Polysubstance use (PSU) usually indicates higher chances of dependence and negative outcomes. This study aims to describe the patte...
The incredible rise of internet and smart technologies in the previous few decades has transformed communication and networking between people in most societies worldwide. Social media has emerged as one of the marvels of the internet age and millions of people regularly use a number of social media applications for various purposes. While it has m...
The book 'Dynamics of Drug Addiction and Abuse in India' by Ranjit Singh Ghuman, Jatinder Singh, and Gurinder Kaur was published in 2023 by Routledge India. It presented the results of an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR-Government of India) funded research study conducted among 950 individuals (along with their households) with sub...
BACKGROUND: More than 250 million individuals use tobacco in some form on a daily basis in India and adolescents make up a significant proportion of that number. The period of adolescence is critical in the initiation of smoking or tobacco use as well as its progression from experimentation to dependency. In this study, the role of psychological st...
A publicly available database of 100,000 scientists was compiled by Ioannidis et al. (2019a), which provides standardized author citation metrics based on their SCOPUS records. The scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields, and career-long data were updated by the end of 2018. Among the top 105,000 authors, 644 Indian a...
The study investigated the preferred methods of teaching and learning English language among a sample of teachers and students from higher secondary schools in Bangalore, India. A total of 67 participants took part in this study which included 30 students (m=14, f=16) and 37 teachers (m=16, f=21). The Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) method wa...
Treatment of alcohol abuse and dependence has been the subject of much discussion given the high rates of relapse
and the ever-growing number of alcohol users worldwide. Motivation to quit drinking is regarded as a key factor in
determining successful treatment and long-term abstinence. The six stages of change provided by Prochaska and
DiClemente’...
Background: Tobacco use is responsible for six million deaths worldwide annually and majority of lifetime users start before the age of 18. The nature of nicotine dependency leads to cessation rates being extremely low. In context of India where the predominant tobacco users are males, the perceived risks and benefits of cigarette smoking was teste...
