N. Janardhana

National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences | NIMHANS · Department of Psychiatric Social Work

Objectives Violence against women has been associated with serious health and mental health consequences. Health-care professionals play an important role in screening and providing care and support to victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the hospital setting. There is no culturally relevant tool to assess the mental health professional (M...

Context: Health care providers play a significant role as they are the first contact for seeking help for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. Aims: This research aimed toward developing a comprehensive culturally appropriate intervention package for the mental health professionals (MHPs) to provide psychological intervention and support for...

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the major public health issue seen in all cultures. Mental health professionals play a significant role in screening IPV and providing needed care and support to the survivors. There is a dearth of scale to measure comprehensively different dimensions of violence. The study aimed to develop a screening...

Context: Health care providers play a significant role as they are the first contact for seeking help for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. Aims: This research aimed toward developing a comprehensive culturally appropriate intervention package for the mental health professionals (MHPs) to provide psychological intervention and support f...

Introduction: Symptoms of anxiety and depression in Indian adolescents are common. Schools can be opportune sites for delivery of mental health interventions. India, however, is without a evidence-based and integrated whole-school mental health approach. This article describes the study design for the safeguarding adolescent mental health in India...

Background: Most research on adolescent focuses on the risk associated with the illness. Very little research has been carried out on adolescents who have been diagnosed with HIV since birth. With recent advances with ART treatment, life span of these children has increased, and there are lots of protective factors in the environment influencing t...

Background: SCI is a high-cost chronic disability, and it is a life-changing experience for family members and societies. For families, the unpredictable nature of the injury leads some of the members into an 'unexpected career' as family caregivers, the caregiver's have to put enormous efforts, to provide continuous full-time caregiving for the re...

This module is tailor-made to address tension and worry among community people. It has case scenarios and activities for the readers and facilitators to understand and apply.

Background Sexual dysfunction and marital intimacy and quality are found to have a reciprocal relationship. Examining this relationship in couples seeking help for sexual dysfunctions in the cultural context of India is worthwhile. Aim This study aims to explore the nature of sexual functioning, sexual interaction, sexual communication, and marita...

Janardhana N, Jagannathan A, Hamza A. SDG3: Health and Well-Being: Models of Environmental and Community Sustainability for better Mental Health and Well-being: An Indian Perspective. In: Rinkel M and Powers M (eds). Social Work: Promoting Community and Environmental Sustainability: A Workbook for Global Social Workers and Educators. The Internatio...

Language : English Brief Description: There are specific stressors that are particular to people within frontline worker fraternity. It is expected for affected (both directly and indirectly) individuals to feel stressed and worried. Some of these fears and behaviours are realistic while many are just borne out of lack of knowledge, rumours and mis...

The spread of the COVID-19 virus has added a new dimension of vulnerability to the lives of children. Millions of vulnerable children are losing out on their development and learning opportunities, and their right to survive and thrive. The mental health and psychosocial impact of restricted movement, school closures and subsequent isolation are li...

The ongoing COVID 19 pandemic brings with it a lot of stress, anxiety, fear, grief, and worry for everyone, causing serious mental health problems. However, for those children who are directly affected by COVID 19, the stress and trauma could be manifold more and may have severe consequences if not addressed in a timely manner. They need specialize...

Background: Exploring sexual aspects and engaging in sexual act with the romantic partner is a normal process with its developmental significance, especially during adolescence. In India, under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 consensual sexual act is prohibited and punishable with or among children below the age of...

Aim: To collect and correlate the sociodemographic and clinical details of persons with spinal cord injury who were admitted to the Department of Neurological Rehabilitation. Objectives: To assess the sociodemographic characteristics and collect the clinical profiles of persons with spinal cord injury and to correlate their sociodemographic and...

Literature describing methodologies for qualitative research with children and young people suggests that traditional data collection methods can be strengthened through the use of creative and task‑based methods. This article discusses the use of a task‑based method called the life grid, in the Indian context, in a study exploring the experiences...

Background Experiences that a child or adolescent goes through play a critical role in their development as an individual. To understand the world of adolescents and their mental health and well-being, it would be important to be able to access their experiences. Therefore, an objective measure to assess experiences is necessary. The study aimed to...

Background Methodological literature on qualitative research with children and young people suggests that traditional data collection methods can be strengthened through the use of creative and task-based methods. This article discusses the experience of using one such task-based method called the life grid, to explore the experiences of adolescent...

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the major public health problems. Little is known about the extent of violence experienced, its severity, or history of childhood abuse or exposure to intergenerational family violence in women with mental illness. Methods One hundred women seeking in-patients (IP) or out-patients (OP) services...

How to use the manual? Psychosocial counseling manual has been commissioned by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR). The manual has been prepared by experts in the area of mental health from across the country. With COVID-19 being declared a pandemic and with more and more people being affected directly or indirectly, there is a need for...

How to use the manual? Psychosocial counseling manual has been commissioned by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR). The manual has been prepared by experts in the area of mental health from across the country. With COVID-19 being declared a pandemic and with more and more people being affected directly or indirectly, there is a need for...

How to use the manual? Psychosocial counseling manual has been commissioned by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR). The manual has been prepared by experts in the area of mental health from across the country. With COVID-19 being declared a pandemic and with more and more people being affected directly or indirectly, there is a need for...

Background Previous attempts of Mental Health Systems Assessment in India were restricted in scope and scale. Information on all aspects of mental health systems (leadership/governance, legislation, financing, service delivery, workforce, access to essential medicines, information systems, intersectoral activities, and monitoring and evaluation) wa...

Background Recognizing the need for good quality, scientific and reliable information for strengthening mental health policies and programmes, the National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) of India was implemented by National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, in the year 2015–2016. Aim To estimate the prevalence, socio-...

Background: Families play a critical role in their children's development and learning. Parents' understanding of their child's illness has a significant impact on the parent-child relationship and helps them to have realistic expectations. Objectives: The objective of this study is to understand the use of parental-group intervention for making...

Introduction: This study sought to understand the perception of parenting style among young adults using qualitative method. Methods: Five focus group discussions were carried out with 29 participants. A self-prepared semi-structured interview, face validated by experts in the field and socio demographic sheet and focus group discussion guide was u...

Family interventions have been an integral part of mental healthcare in India for several decades. This paper highlights the need for an emerging change in the nature of family interventions in India—from generic interventions for heterogeneous caregiver groups to interventions addressing particular needs based on family stages and structures. It m...

Romantic relationship is one among the defining feature and developmental task of adolescence, often considered to have significant influence on the course of other developmental tasks, overall health and wellbeing. Thus the present paper made an attempt to review different mental health promotion manuals developed for adolescence in India with the...

Family caregivers have been an integral part of healthcare in India for several decades. They have been complementing the state resources, and thus, estimating the real healthcare cost becomes difficult. This paper highlights the needs of the family caregivers in an emerging change in the family structure in India – from joint families to extended...

Background: Research in the field of parenting has grown in the recent decade. Parenting style scales are used to measure the perception of parenting style either from the child's viewpoint or parent's viewpoint. The previous review of scales affirms the parenting style scales in the western context. The current review examines the scales available...

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV)/domestic violence is one of the significant public health problems, but little is known about the barriers to disclosure in tertiary care psychiatric settings. Methodology One hundred women seeking inpatient or outpatient services at a tertiary care psychiatric setting were recruited for study using purpo...

Background Devadasi practice is still prevalent in some parts of North Karnataka; most of the Devadasis get into sex work for their survival. During sex work, devadasis would get close to their customer, as they feel secure and emotionally satisfied. Objectives The present study aims at understanding the Devadasi sex worker (DSW) and their intimat...

Family members of people with mental illness struggle between the dual responsibility of handling the household activities and providing care to person with mental illness during acute phase of illness and recovery phase. Caregivers have shared the burden of providing care for people with mental illness, and their perspectives need to be given utmo...

Background: Children of parents with mental illness are not routinely included in psychoeducational and supportive family interventions provided by adult mental health systems. The family, therefore, is an important and, sometimes, the only source of information and support for them. Aim: To understand the experiences of well parents in talking...

Increased interest in romantic relationships is central in adolescents’ lives and has long been considered defining features of adolescence. Romantic relationships have significant influence on emotional wellbeing of adolescents. In western context, romantic relationship has gained developmental significance and majority of adolescents involved in...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to develop a structured curriculum for a group-based parenting program for parents/caregivers of children or adolescents treated in the inpatient child and adolescent mental health unit of a national health institute. Methods: Data from group session reports of 3 years of conducting group-based parenti...

Background Treatment gap for mental health care in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries is very large, and building workforce using the locally available resources is very much essential in reducing this gap. The current study is a preliminary work toward this direction. Materials and Methods A single group pre- and post-design was considered f...

Abstract Often a therapist treating sexual dysfunction in a couple with marital distress is faced with the dilemma of deciding what or whom to focus in therapy. With the increasing recognition of the need for an integrated systemic approach, therapist is expected to simultaneously address individual, couple and family systems. The challenge is elic...

Abstract The Indian Government has brought all child welfare and development programme under the umbrella of Integrated Child Protection Scheme since 2010 with the amendment of JJ Act. The state of Karnataka appears to be a fore runner in implementing Integrated Child Protection Scheme by establishing the Karnataka State Integrated Child Protection...

Increased interest in romantic relationships is central in adolescents ’lives and has long been considered defining features of adolescence. Romantic relationships have significant influence on emotional well-being of adolescents. In western context, romantic relationship has gained developmental significance, and majority of adolescents involved i...

Education is one of the important aspects of an individual's life. It tends to influence various aspects of one's life such as career, employment, socio-economic status and well-being. Children of sex workers are marginalized because of their mother's profession and live in under privileged conditions where the access to education is minimal. These...

Child and adolescent mental health issues have a wide prevalence and cause serious burden and stress to the psychosocial health of parents and caregivers. Psychosocial interventions have proved to be useful adjuncts to pharmacological treatment in childhood psychiatric conditions because of their long standing nature and psychosocial implications....

Background and Objective: The life span of the children living with Hiv/AIDS has increased with the invention of Retroviral drugs. As they are entering in to late adolescents and early adulthood, it becomes necessary to understand their expectations. The study aimed to explore the future expectations among the adolescents with HIV/AIDs. Materials a...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with deficiencies in many developmental milestones during the infantile childhood. Recent researches have shown that apart from behaviour problems, the ASD children also suffer from physiological conditions such as disturbed sleep and gastrointestinal problems that could be the...

The Indian Government has many programmes towards the child development and all these programmes been brought under the umbrella of Integrated Child Protection Scheme since 2010. In India, Karnataka state is pioneer in implementing this scheme through establishing Karnataka State Integrated Child Protection Society (KSICPS), they have appointed 560...

Caring is a fundamental issue in the rehabilitation of a person with mental illness and more so for people with severe mental illness. The lack of adequate manpower resources in the country is adding and enlisting the responsibility of providing care on the families to provide physical, medical, social and psychological care for their severely unwe...

Persons with disabilities comprise at least 4 to 8 percent of the Indian population. Children with disabilities in India are subject to multiple deprivations and limited opportunities in several dimensions of their lives. Their families and caregivers also go through lot of stress and challenges in having a person with disability at home which ulti...

Caring is a fundamental issue in the rehabilitation of a person with mental illness and more so for people with severe mental illness. The study examines the load of care giving with reference to the types of care during the symptomatic and recovery phases of mental illness and the various ways in which caregivers adapt their lives to meet the need...

Child sexual abuse is a major public health problem with significant psychosocial consequences (Afifi & Macmillan, 2011). All child sexual abuse victims do not depict adverse consequences in later life. The variability of impact in a potentially traumatic experience like child sexual abuse is explained by the construct of resilience and it being th...

This article describes experiences in implementing a community mental health and development project in a rural district in southern India, including the position of persons with mental illness when the project was initiated, the challenges faced and the strategies that were developed to overcome these challenges. The authors conclude that when ser...

Caregivers are a largely understudied, unsung population who shoulder many of the social and psychological costs of mental illness. This study examines the load of caregiving during symptomatic and stabilised phases of the mentally ill and the various ways in which family members adapt themselves to give care. Drawing its data from 200 families wit...

Through out the world people with mental illness are denied their basic human rights, especially the right to access treatment, rehabilitation and appropriate mental health care (UN 2006, UN 1999). People with mental illness (PWMI) and their families experience discrimination and exclusion from economic and social activities. Due to stigma, PWMI an...

Recommendations to develop guidelines on community-based rehabilitation (CBR) were made during the International Consultation to Review Community-based Rehabilitation which was held in Helsinki, Finland in 2003. WHO; the International Labour Organization; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and the International Di...

Recommendations to develop guidelines on community-based rehabilitation (CBR) were made during the International Consultation to Review Community-based Rehabilitation which was held in Helsinki, Finland in 2003. WHO; the International Labour Organization; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and the International Di...