Assessment and Diagnostic Services
- Assessment of Intelligence: A deficiency in intelligence can be a major reason for poor performance at school, or other activities of daily life. Using standardized procedures, we assess the intellectual ability of the person and try to understand the level at which he or she is functioning.
- Assessment of Personality: This service helps to identify personality traits underlying various psychiatric conditions and personality disorders.
- Diagnostic Clarification of Psychiatric Disorders : This service aids in the diagnosis as well as the severity of an underlying psychiatric disorders using standardized diagnostic materials such as Rorschach Inkblot Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and rating scales.
- Neuropsychological Assessments: This service primarily aims at understanding the various functions of the brain by a detailed assessment using standardized neuropsychological tests. It is useful in planning intervention and rehabilitation strategies and tracking improvements in functioning.
- Online & In-person Psychotherapy/ Counselling Services
Therapeutic services aim at addressing and improving the psychological health of persons through interventions that supplement but do not use medications.
- Relaxation Training: Relaxation techniques help a person to relax; to attain a state of increased calmness and reduce levels of anxiety, stress or anger. Relaxation techniques can decrease muscle tension, lower the blood pressure and slow heart and breath rates, among other health benefits.
- Behavior Therapy: Behavioral treatment approaches are focused on treating maladaptive behaviors. The therapeutic approach assumes that both normal and maladaptive behaviors are learned and that appropriate therapy will help a person learn new adaptive behavior and ‘unlearn’ maladaptive behavior.
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: A wide variety of developmental (autism, mental retardation), behavioral (hyperactivity, conduct disorders), and emotional challenges (depression, anxiety, stress related rage) of children and adolescents are assessed and treated by using behavioral, cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic methods.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on changing the faulty cognitions (thinking processes) of people about themselves and other people to more accurate perceptions.
- Family and Marital Psychotherapy: Family and Marital services focus on the family or the couple as a single integral unit to which each member contributes significantly. In family and couple therapy, the entire family or both members of a couple are treated simultaneously – not just the person identified as having the “problem”. The therapy also focuses on enhancing adjustment between the couple and other members of the family unit.
- Cognitive Remediation/ Rehabilitation: Cognitive Retraining/ Remediation involves a group of techniques that aims to restore cognitive functions like attention, memory, language, emotional functioning and executive functions. Cognitive Rehabilitation also involves working with families and caregivers of patients who underwent neurological/neurosurgical conditions like dementias, encephalopathies, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular conditions etc.
- Group Therapy: Group Psychotherapy is a therapy in which a group is guided by a trained therapist to help each member of the group effect changes. Several technical maneuvers and theoretical constructs are used by the therapist to optimally utilize the group members’ interactions to make that change.
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Facilities
Assessment and Diagnostic Services
- Assessment of Intelligence: A deficiency in intelligence can be a major reason for poor performance at school, or other activities of daily life. Using standardized procedures, we assess the intellectual ability of the person and try to understand the level at which he or she is functioning.
- Assessment of Personality: This service helps to identify personality traits underlying various psychiatric conditions and personality disorders.
- Diagnostic Clarification of Psychiatric Disorders : This service aids in the diagnosis as well as the severity of an underlying psychiatric disorders using standardized diagnostic materials such as Rorschach Inkblot Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and rating scales.
- Neuropsychological Services: This service primarily aims at understanding the various functions of the brain by a detailed assessment using standardized neuropsychological tests. It is useful in planning intervention and rehabilitation strategies and tracking improvements in functioning.
- Our department is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for:
- Psychological assessment
- Diagnostic testing & psychometry
- Relaxation & Biofeedback training
- Individual, Marital & Group Psychotherapy
Achievements
- First department in the state to Kerala initiate MPhil Clinical Psychology programme, in the year 2016 and impart quality training to aspiring Clinical Psychologists, equipping them with professionalism and expertise.
Specialty Clinics
- Psyber Clinic – Towards management of behaviour addictions
- Transgender Mental Health – psychological evaluation and interventions
Diagnostic Tests And Procedures
- Psychometric evaluations
- Personality assessments
Outreach Program
- Community Awareness programme – Safer Internet Day 06 Feb 2024
- Sensitization programme –Management of Problem Behaviours – for parents & caregivers of children diagnosed with Autism – 04 April 2024
Treatments
Advanced treatment for various mental health disorders & psychological conditions
