A free workshop on family counseling at the Faculty of Arts

The Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University, represented by the Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs Sector, organized a free workshop on family counseling, under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El-Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Ghada Farouk, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Prof. Hanan Kamel, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, under the supervision of Prof. Hanan Muhammad Salem, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Dr.Iman Zayan, Director of the Al Zayan Foundation, presented the workshop.

At the beginning of the workshop, Dr. Iman Zayan thanked Prof. Hanan Kamel Metwally, Dean of the Faculty, for her keen interest in holding free workshops to educate students and work to develop their skills in all fields.

Dr. Iman Zayan reviewed the concept of family counseling, which is one of the sciences that seeks to provide assistance to the family in finding a solution to the problems it may face and identifying its negative and positive circumstances with the aim of reaching harmony among its members, achieving communication between family members, and finding a solution to its problems.

 

During the workshop, Dr. Iman Zayan explained the beginning of the emergence of family counseling and the reasons for its emergence in the United States of America since the fifties of the last century, which contributed to the emergence of this type of treatment and counseling, which is the period in which the trend of psychoanalysis spread.

Dr. Iman Zayan indicated that there are three types of counseling, and she explained the difference between them: marital counseling; Family counseling; and Psychological counseling, and explained the exact concepts of each of them. It also demonstrated the differences between the male brain and the female brain.

She cited that in 2013, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania examined the brains of 1,000 men and women, and the study found that men are better at performing one task, while women are more willing to multitask, and women’s memory is also significantly superior to men’s.

In a Dutch study, which was conducted based on magnetic resonance imaging scans of nearly 900 men and women, it was demonstrated that a man’s brain is approximately 14% larger than a woman’s brain.

In conclusion, Dr. Iman Zayan indicated the extent of the students’ commitment, keenness to benefit, and the keenness of Prof. Hanan Kamel Metwally, the Dean of the Faculty, for spreading psychological, family, and community awareness among students.