Aradhana Shukla is retired Professor and Head of the department of Psychology at Kumaun University, SSJ Campus, Almora and Dean (Arts) Kumaun University, Nainital. She has served in this university since 1987 and before joining this university she was UGC fellow at DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur and Assistant Research Offic er at Department of Paediatrics, IMS, BHU. She has guided 52 Ph.D students completed, 6 major research project from UGC, NCERT and ICSSR. She has written and edited 20 books and developed 15 psychological tests. More than 250 papers written by her have been published in the journals and books of national and International repute. She has co-edited six volume series on Mental Health: Psycho-Social Perspectives, Volume one ‘Issues and Intervention’ (2015), Volume two ‘Multigroup analysis’ (2015), Volume three ‘Strength of Human Resources’ (2017) and Volume four ‘Therapeutic Applications’ (2017), Volume five 'Children and Adolcents' and Volume six 'Women'. She is also co-editor of books entitled “Psyche of Asian Society” in 2019 and “Cognising Asian Societies through Psychological Underpinnings” in 2022 published by Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. She has published “स्वास्थ्य मनोविज्ञान” in 2022 by Kitab Mahal, New Delhi. She is the coauthor of books entitled ‘Communication Skills and Personality Development’ and ‘संचार कौशल और व्यक्तित्व विकास’ published from Anu Publication in the year 2023. She has attended and participated in so many National and International seminar in online and offline mode and served as supportive supervisor in GFATM round VII an International project. Moreover, she served in various academic assignments given by many organizations. After her retirement in 2019 she worked as a Senior Research Fellow in the department of psychology SSJ university Almora. She is a certified counselor from NIMHANS. Now she is working in GRACE FOUNDATION Hudson, Newyork. Her major areas of interest are cross-cultural psychology, health psychology and psychological intervention.
Anubhuti Dubey is Professor of Psychology and presently Dean Students Welfare, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University (NAAC A++), Gorakhpur (U.P). She is teaching here for the past 24 years. She has published more than 55 research papers in the journals of international and national repute and 45 chapters in different edited volumes. She has written books entitled, "Psychological Perspectives on Chronic Illness" in 2012 published by Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi and “स्वास्थ्य मनोविज्ञान” in 2022 published by Kitab Mahal, New Delhi. She is the coauthor of books titled ‘Communication Skills and Personality Development’ and ‘संचार कौशल और व्यक्तित्व विकास’ published from Anu Publication in the year 2023. She is also the co-editor of a series of six volumes on “Mental health: Psychological Perspectives" (Publication years 2015, 2017, 2021 published by Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi). She is also co-editor of books entitled “Psyche of Asian Society” in 2019 and “Cognising Asian Societies through Psychological Underpinnings” in 2022 published by Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. She has carried out ICSSR research project on "Psychological Dynamics of Health and Illness in Women of Eastern Uttar Pradesh". Thirteen students have been awarded Ph.D. degree under her supervision. She has also supervised more than 150 PG dissertation projects. She is also a Master Trainer and Supportive Supervisor for training HIV/AIDS counselors under GFATM-7 program. Her research Area of specialization includes Health Psychology, Positive Psychology, Qualitative Research Methods and Psychological Counseling. Presently, she is Editor of International Journal ‘Mind and Society’. She is also a consultant for Psychosocial assessment of juvenile offenders of Gorakhpur district under Juvenile Justice Board. She has awarded by U.P Government as Shakti Yodhya and got Certificate of Appreciation for the contribution in syllabus as NEP 2020 recommendation. She has delivered more than 150 lectures as resource person in various conferences/seminars/training programs/workshops.
