Q.Describe some of the areas of everyday life where understanding of psychology can be put to practice.

Psychology helps address problems at every scale -- personal (e.g., coping with a difficult family member), family-level (poor communication), community-level (social isolation, extremist groups), and national or international levels (education, health, environment, social justice). …

Psychology offers solutions to problems ranging from the purely personal to the genuinely national or international. At a personal level, it can help someone coping with, for example, an alcoholic parent, or a mother struggling to manage a difficult child. At a family level, it can help address problems rooted in poor communication and interaction among family members. At the level of a larger group or community, psychology's insights extend to understanding and addressing troubling phenomena such as terrorist groups or socially isolated communities. And at a national or international level, psychological understanding contributes to tackling widespread problems connected to education, health, the environment, social justice, women's development, and intergroup relations -- problems that, while they may also require political, economic, and social reform, are often rooted in unhealthy thinking, negative attitudes, and undesirable patterns of behaviour that a psychological analysis can help both explain and address.

The practical value of psychology has also become highly visible through media: television counsellors and therapists regularly address problems facing children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly, and also analyse larger social issues such as social change, population growth, poverty, violence, and environmental degradation. In line with this, psychologists today work, and actively design intervention programmes meant to improve quality of life, in a wide range of real settings -- schools, hospitals, industries, prisons, business organisations, and military establishments, as well as in independent private practice as consultants. …