Hala Dahlan

Hala Dahlan is a psychologist devoted her work to family and children for more than 25 years to enhance the family well-being. She graduated from Canada and USA then return back to Saudi, entitled to run a huge special needs center in the southern region, she implemented new programs that changed the spirt of the children and their families.  That experience enriched her and drove her to peruse her higher education in Guidance and counselling, worked in Ministry of Health for 20 years, established the first clinic for family and child counselling in primary health care center in Makkah, KSA.  She is one of the pioneer psychologist who shares her practice with a pediatric clinic for more than 16 years.  Hala’s goal in her carrier is to empowering parents to raise up healthy wealthy children by working on child behavior modification. She is keen to select an area of research that minimally discussed in KSA, and present informative results as her research on Anxiety, Depression and its relation to Psychosomatic Symptoms in children age 6-12 in KSA.  Another area of   research interest is the effect of child Co-sleeping in parent room and its Psychological Impact on Children in KSA.  Hala is a frequent speaker of child psychological health in public and private schools as well as her contribution in a medical college.  Her popular quote is “Every parent has the Equipments but needs the manual instructions”