Clinical Psychology
Clinical focus
Divisions and Expertise:
- Behaviour Therapy including Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Neuropsychology
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
- De-addiction
Diseases covered:
- Emotional Problems
- Behavioural & Developmental Problems
- Mental health issues
- Interpersonal relationship issues
- Conflicts in Marital / Family / Sexual relationships
- Substance Abuse
Target population:
Children and Adolescents, Adults and Geriatric Population
Unique services:
Multidisciplinary approach towards mental health and medical conditions
The clinical work includes:
- Detailed case histories
- Clinical Interviews
- Psychodiagnostics
- Neuropsychological Assessments
- Psychotherapeutics
Therapies also include the following areas:
- Therapies with children
- Student counselling
- Individual therapies
- Family/marital/group/sex therapy
- Psychological and/or neuropsychological rehabilitation
Supervisory training is provided for individual and group psychotherapy and counseling before introducing the students to integrate different therapeutic approaches.As part of the curriculum, the M. Phil trainees are posted in other specialties like Psychiatry, Neurology, Cardiology, Nephrology, Oncology and Pediatrics in enhancing their clinical experience. They are exposed to community work at Counselling centre Vayalanallur RHTC. The students are also involved in school mental health programme at Government Higher Secondary School, Perungudi.
