Mental Health Education

For the event of World Mental Health Day 2018, the WHO has announced the theme as ‘Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World’. The Department is currently working on multiple campaigns, for the benefit and learning of students we are hosting for our one-month long ‘Certification in Mental Health Education’, this September. As […]

For the event of World Suicide Prevention Day 2018, the fellows of the Department, under the guidance of Dr. K. S. Meena (Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health Education, NIMHANS), initiated a campaign on Suicide Prevention, titled ‘Be a Buddy for Suicide Prevention’, in which we communicated in different ways how to be more aware […]

The Department of Mental Health Education organises workshops on the topic ‘First Aid for Mental health problems’ once every two months. The first of its kind in India, we aim to teach how to identify, approach and further refer individuals going through mental health issues and crises in the context of everyday life, in an […]