Syllabus
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Course Code: MSW(C) -304 Course Name: Mental Health Care, Services and Counseling |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | - Mental Health, Psychopathology, and Psychiatry: concept, meaning and scope. - Concept of normality and abnormality. - Etiology of mental disorders. - Classification of mental disorders: WHO approach (ICD-10) and American Psychiatric Association approach (DSM-IV & IV-TR). - Psychoneurotic reactions: Anxiety disorders, Obsessive-compulsive reactions, Phobic reactions, Delirium and Dementia; Alzheimer’s disease. - Depressive reactions: prevalence, causes, symptoms, types & treatment - Mood disorders and personality disorders: symptoms, types and treatment - Somatoform disorders: conversion disorder (Hysteria), Hypochondriasis, Pain disorders; causes symptoms, types and treatment. |
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| 2 | - Psychotic disorders- Schizophrenia: prevalence, symptoms, types and treatment - Paranoid reactions- symptoms and treatment. - Intellectual disability: causes, types, management, prevention and rehabilitation - Services for Mental Health, National Mental Health Programme: objectives, progress and problems |
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| 3 | - Substance abuse and dependence: meaning, definition, nature and extent of the problem - Types of addictive substances: natural, synthetic, narcotics, stimulants and depressants. Nature, symptoms, short-term effects and long-term effects of substance abuse. - Theories of addiction: physiological, psychological, sociological and cultural theories. - Alcohol dependence and Alcoholism: causes, symptoms, long term and short-term effects. Phases of alcohol addiction. - Socio-economic implications of addiction and rehabilitation |
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| 4 | - Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 - Therapeutic community: concept and use. Community Psychiatry. - Rehabilitation, prevention and promotion of mental health Treatment - Rehabilitation of Drug addicts. . - Counseling – meaning, definition, Process and types: directive and non-directive. - Marriage counseling and Drug Counseling: concept and process. Industrial workers and employees counseling. Characteristics and traits of a good counselor - Role of Social Worker individually as well as part of a team. - Yoga and Meditation and other indigenous therapeutic measurers. |
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