FISH Psychology 🐟 咸鱼心理学 🐟

Are you experiencing intense, unbearable pain and sorrow because you recently lost your loved one? That is perfectly okay, it is part of the process of grieving. Everyone faces death and experiences losing their loved ones, especially during this pandemic, the death cases have risen dramatically where almost everyone experienced grief. What is grief? It is a highly intense, acute pain, and overwhelming experience of sorrow, distress, and sadness that results from the loss of a loved one. Five Stages of Grief Elisabeth Kubler-Ross proposed that we would go through 5 stages of grief after the loss of a loved one. Stage 1 - Denial In the first stage, we find it hard to believe the sudden news about the death of a loved one hence is reluctant to face the truth. The world has fallen and became meaningless. At this point, our “usual” reality has shifted completely. We are shocked and tend to deny that our loved ones had gone forever. We often felt overwhelmed by the tragic news. However, t...

Are you having trouble remembering things ? For instance, you have ever experienced forgetting where you parked your car in a shopping mall car park, your mind went blank and empty while taking an exam or test, or you often forget about important meeting or class which makes you missed them out. If you have ever experienced those or other events that suggest you have poor memory, fret not! Today, we will be sharing some tips to help you improve your memory 😉  (Again, do keep in mind that these tips are subject to each individual, do adopt which you think you find most helpful and suitable ya!) -- Below are the tips to improve memory performance: Tip 1: Use mnemonics! Mnemonic is a technique that significantly aids in remembering information. The first letter of the needed-to-be-remembered term will be associated with the first letter of another word. For example, you can remember all the 7 colours of rainbow🌈, by using the acronym : ROY G. BIV, which is Red, Orange, Yellow, Gree...

Are you sleeping well lately😌? Or Are you suffering from insomnia 🐼? Hopefully, you have had a good night’s sleep recently! Today, we are going to share some tips to maintain or improve your sleeping quality! -- Importance of Sleep Do you know that sleep can affect us physically , emotionally , and mentally ? When you have poor sleep quality: Prolong low sleep quality or insomnia would make you gain weight and increase the risk of health problems such as liver cancer ( physically ) It makes you have impaired brain function such as being unable to concentrate or focus on a task ( mentally ) Poor sleep makes you fussy and easily angry ( emotionally ) When you have good sleep quality: It reduces the stress level in your body ( emotionally ) It improves your brain functioning such as better concentration, thinking, and able to be productive ( mentally ) It reduces the risk of you getting health problems ( physically ) We would like to share 4 different tips to help you maintain and i...

How do you cope when you have a bad day? -- Are you going through a difficult time or having a bad day😥? If yes, what do you do to cope with it? Everyone reacts differently to stressful events. Some run away, some do certain things to deal with the stress. Today we would share two different coping strategies to help you get through the hard times. -- What are Coping Strategies? Coping is defined as the cognitive and behavioural efforts that are implemented to solve problems and reduce the stress that these problems have caused. It is a capacity to respond and to recover from stressful events or difficult times. Coping strategies or sometimes known as coping mechanisms are means or ways that are used to manage stressful or traumatic events. There are no standards for coping strategies, they vary depending on a person's experience. Importance of Coping Strategies Coping strategies are important to an individual because it will help us to get through difficult times, manage stress, ...

Improving & maintaining Parent-Child Relationship There are different types of relationships which include family relationships, friendships, romantic relationships, and relationships with oneself. As quoted by Henry Ward Beecher: “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” It is crucial to have a healthy and strong family relationship, particularly the relationship between the parent and child. Why is the parent-child relationship important? A healthy parent-child relationship promotes a child's cognitive, emotional, and social development and it helps to build children’s prosocial behaviour where they are more likely to be helpful and kind. -- Are you looking for tips to improve and/or maintain your relationship with your parents or with your child 🤔? Fret not, we would love to share some useful tips to help you out, for both children and parents🤩 because building a relationship requires both parties, not one! As a parent👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 you may do...

What is productivity?📋 Productivity is the quality of being productive or having the power to produce. Productivity in the workplace refers to the amount of “work” that is completed over a specific period of time. -- How do you increase your productivity? Some suggest that you can take breaks in between tasks, set small achievable goals, and try to avoid multitasking (focus one at a time!). However, to sufficiently increase your productivity the most important thing is that you identify what you can and/or cannot do, then choose to focus on what things that you can do something about! Stephen Covey (1989) proposed the circles of influence and circle of concern in his book named “ 7 habits of highly effective people ” as one of the ways to increase productivity. By deciding how we view ourselves and the situations, as well as to have control over our own effectiveness. _Circle of Influence_ The circle of influence includes things that you are concerned about, but you have the power an...

How can we apply behaviourist theories to help us learn better🧐? As we have learned the main theories and experiments about behaviourism, we would like to share some tips to help you to change and/or reinforce your behaviour in order to enhance your learning experience!! ✨😜 Here are the learning tips based on behaviourism that you may apply to help you learn and study! 1️⃣ Classical Conditioning: Condition yourself to study and learn! Classical Conditioning is a form of associative learning which involves an automatic stimulus and a specific stimulus. It posits that learning and forming new associations can help to shape new behaviours and responses. By associating two different or even unrelated stimuli together, a new learned response can be created. Let’s apply classical conditioning theory to help us study! Firstly, create an environment that is cosy and mood-boosting which encourages you to study and learn. Secondly, associate the “ideal” study environment of yours with your st...