Rural Economy and Cooperation - Loyola College

SW 4973: Psychiatric Social WorkObjectives: Total Hours: 45• To develop the knowledge of Psychosocial Treatment Methods for persons with Mental andEmotional Disorders.• To acquire knowledge of Institutional and Extra-mural approaches to provision of MentalHealth Services.• To acquire knowledge and skill in the practice of Community Psychiatry and RehabilitationUNIT IPsychiatric Social Work as a field of Social Work in India. Historical Development of PsychiatricSocial Work in U.K., U.S.A. and India.(5 Hours)UNIT IIThe concept of psychiatric patient, Family and mental illness. Diagnosis in Psychiatric Social Work.Social Case Work, Social Group Work and Family Therapy in Psychiatric setting.(15 Hours)UNIT IIIThe Mental Hospital as a social system: Partial hospitalization. Therapeutic community.(5 Hours)UNIT IVFunctions of the Psychiatric Social Worker in the following: Psychiatric Out-Patient Departments inthe Government General Hospitals, Day Hospitals, Child Guidance Clinics, Epilepsy Clinics,Adolescent Clinics, Neuroses Clinics, Geriatric Clinics.(5 Hours)UNIT VRehabilitation of Chronic Mental Patients. Community Psychiatry: Role of the Psychiatric SocialWorker in Community Mental Health Programmes, Limitations faced by the Psychiatric SocialWorker in the field and solutions for the same.(5 Hours)PDF created with FinePrint pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com