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The Bhore Committee found that the position of mental health and mental healthcare in India was "extremely unsatisfactory". [10] Colonel Moore Taylor, I.M.S., Medical Superintendent, Ranchi European Mental Hospital, reviewed all the major mental health hospitals in the country, the findings of which were presented in the Bhore Committee Report.
Social psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that studies how the social environment impacts mental health and mental illness. It applies a cultural and societal lens on mental health by focusing on mental illness prevention, community-based care, mental health policy, and societal impact of mental health. [1]
Later, though, the Community Mental Health Centers focus shifted to providing psychotherapy for those with acute but less serious mental disorders. [71] Ultimately there were no arrangements made for actively following and treating severely mentally ill patients who were being discharged from hospitals. [71]
Community Mental Health Act; Other short titles: Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963: Long title: An Act to provide assistance in combating mental retardation through grants for construction of research centers and grants for facilities for the mentally retarded and assistance in improving mental health through grants for construction of community ...
Despite the drive for community mental health, many physicians, mental health specialists, and even patients have come to question its effectiveness as a treatment. [8] The underlying assumptions of community mental health require that patients who are treated within a community have a place to live, a caring family, or supportive social circle ...
Mental health prevention is defined as intervening to minimize mental health problems (i.e. risk factors) by addressing determinants of mental health problems before a specific mental health problem has been identified in the individual, group, or population of focus with the ultimate goal of reducing the number of future mental health problems ...
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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.