Psychiatric Social Work - An Emerging Mental Health Profession in India

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Social Work, , language: English, abstract: Psychiatric Social Work, a specialised branch of Social work, which concerns with theoretical as well as clinical work and the knowledge of Psychiatry-which primarily deals with problems of the mind and associated disorders. The essential purpose of Psychiatric Social Work is to help the people with problems of the mind and/or with behavior problems or we can say precisely the problems of mind and brain and their solutions.

Upmesh k. Talwar, Former Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, India.