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Overall, mental health care in the mental hospitals was custodial rather than therapeutic". [20] Pratima Murthy from NIMHANS writes that the report was a landmark in "highlighting the state of mental health services in India. However, the report, like many others before it may have disappeared into oblivion, had it not been for the Erwadi tragedy".
The Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering child psychiatry.It is published by the Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and edited by Naresh Nebhinani.
Notable steps taken by the Government of India include the decriminalization of suicide in the Mental HealthCare Act of 2017 [4] and launching of India's first mental health toll free helpline KIRAN. [5] Many experts have emphasised the urgent need for a national strategy for suicide prevention to be implemented that is multi-sectoral in nature ...
In 1929, Col. Berkeley Hill founded the Indian Association for Mental Hygiene, affiliated with the National Council for Mental Health Hygiene in Great Britain. The Association ceased to function after yew years. [1] Later, Dr Banarasi Das campaigned for the Indian division of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association. The division was formed ...
It was a health survey taken by a development committee to assess health condition of India. The development committee worked under Joseph William Bhore, who acted as the chairman of committee. The committee consisted of pioneers in the healthcare field who met frequently for two years and submitted their report in 1946. [1]
The Banyan's NALAM programme is a well-being oriented, community based mental health care programme driven by grassroots workers who offer multi-tiered, multi-interventional packages of mental health care, that range from tracking progress on symptom reduction and securing economic stability, to pursuing personal aspirations.
Sep. 19—Prosecutors want to make sure mental health records of teenager Eric Sweeney, accused of killing his sister-in-law and two nephews at their Northfield home in 2022, are handed over with ...
Mental health organisations in India (1 C, 28 P) P. Psychiatric hospitals in India (10 P) S. Suicide in India (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Mental health in India"