Open AccessPublications on community psychiatry
Author(s) -
Thara Rangaswamy,
Sushma Rameshkumar,
C. Greeshma Mohan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.69248
Subject(s) - mental health , subject (documents) , mental health care , work (physics) , mental healthcare , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , library science , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering
Care and treatment outside the setting of mental hospitals have been termed community psychiatry. This paper, based largely on publications on this subject in the IJP, discusses work on development of mental health services outside the hospitals, National and District Mental Health Programs, some accounts of Indian families, alternative modes of treatment in communities and a few miscellaneous issues. Very few papers are data driven and most of them are descriptive and opinionated.