VOLUNTEER TROOPS ENLIGHTEN ON ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL GUIDANCE FOR CONTENTED MILITARY LIFE’

With a view of grooming contented soldiers, one more training day lecture on ‘Psychological Guidance for Contented Military Life’ was organised by the Training Branch of the Headquarters, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force.

The lecture was conducted under the directions of Major General W A S S Wanasinghe RSP USP ndu, the Commandant of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force and under the supervision of Major General Thusitha Silva KSP, the Deputy Commandant of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force on 28th December at the Multifunction Hall, SLAVF.

The lecture was delivered by Lieutenant Colonel R M H P K Rathnayaka, Staff Officer 1 of Directorate of Psychological Operations and he covered the topics of Psychology, Counselling, Mental Diseases, Risk Factors and Psychiatry. Furtherance, he simply and concisely explained the deviations of mind and behaviour of the people in dissimilar phenomena with practical examples.

The questions were raised by the participants at the end of the lecture and senior officers, officers and other ranks of the headquarters attended the lecture.