KU seminar highlights importance of building life skills in youth

KARACHI: A seminar on building life skills in youth a Local Challenge Fund by the Higher Education Commission Pakistan, and supported by the World Bank, was organized by the Institute of Clinical Psychology in collaboration with the KU Office of Research, Innovations and Commercialization at the KU Chinese Teachers Memorial Auditorium.

The objectives of the event were to highlight the role of youth in the prevention of substance use and mental health problems in the community, to develop knowledge, healthy skills, and abilities to face difficult situations in their lives, address myths related to substance use and mental health problems and to build self-confidence, communication skills and pro-social behaviors to cope with difficult situation in young people to enable their positive development, and developing an educational climate, environment policies, which support health-promoting behaviors of youth.

Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi during his address said that before we talk about the world, we need to see how much corruption is there in our society, how much truth we speak, and how much this system promotes merit. He observed that we have to prove through our actions that we are better Muslims, and then we invite the world to Islam.

He mentioned that without improving our basic education system in the country, we cannot produce good people and prepare them better. We need to improve our basic education system to compete with the world. We need to make our society safe and inclusive.

A wellness counselor at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology Dr Muzaffar Ali said that addiction is a chronic relapsing mental illness. If we continue to call it only a social evil and a bad habit, we will never go towards its treatment.

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