MS. KATY YAZDI GANDEVIA
Associate Professor

Centre for Health and Mental Health
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

E-mail: gandevia[At]tiss.edu

Qualifications

  • M.A. (Social Work), Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Areas of Interest

  • Mental Health (prevention, promotion and rehabilitation)
  • Disaster Management
  • Recent Research
  • Health Status of the Parsis
  • Perception of Mental Health among the Adivasis
  • Mental Health of Women affected by Earthquake

Teaching

  • Social Case Work
  • Mental Health Information for Social Workers
  • Seminar classes on Mental Health

Field Action

  • Assisting an NGO in developing a Community Mental Health Programme and Monitoring the Day Care Services for recovering persons.

Training

  • Psychosocial aspects of Disaster Management (for disaster workers).
  • Capacity-building of care givers of mentally ill individuals.

Additional Relevant Information

  • Founder-member of a support group for caregivers of the mentally ill.
  • Founder Trustee of a Rehabilitation Centre for the mentally ill.

 

 

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