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This volume is a collection of significant PowerPoint presentations of Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi´s (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz) research findings in the important fields of domestic violence; post 9/11 traumatized America and Islamic perspective of mental health in Microsoft Word format. These research papers were accepted after rigorous review process by the American Psychological Association for oral presentation at 116th APA Annual Convention 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A and 115th APA Annual Convention 2007 in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Certainly, the readers who were unable to participate in these prestigious APA international conventions would benefit from these indigenous research findings of Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz) who is a practicing clinical psychologist, an active researcher and a university professor in Lahore city of Pakistan. It is hoped that these oral presentations in word format would be of immense value for the students, researchers and professionals in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, medicine, developmental studies, behavioral sciences and other allied disciplines across the globe.

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Prof. Dr. Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz from President of Pakistan) got M. Sc (Gold Medal) from University of the Punjab; M.A (A+) and Ph. D (A+) from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A; Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology from State of New Jersey and Post-Doc from University of California , Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

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