DR. LINA KASHYAP
Professor & Chairperson

Centre for Disability Studies & Action
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

E-mail: linakash@tiss.edu

Qualifications

• M.A. (Socal Work), TISS
• Ph.D. (Social Work), TISS

Areas of Interest

• Social Work with Children, Families and Persons with Disability

Teaching

• Teach courses related to Children, Family and Disability and Counselling

Research

• Related to Social Work with Children, Families and Persons with Disability: Policies, and Programmes and interventions.

Training

• Family Counselling
• Counselling Persons with Disability and their Families
• Training Counsellors.

Recent/Significant Publications

• Impact of Modernization on Indian Families: The Counselling Challenge, Special Issue on ‘Counselling in India’, International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 26(4), 2004.
• Ethical Issues in Marital and Family Counselling in India. In D. Hill and C. Jones (Eds.), Forms of Ethical Thinking in Therapeutic Practice , United Kingdom : Open University Press, 2003 .
• Interventions with Children: The Forgotten Victims of Marriage Breakdown, The Indian Journal of Social Work, 64(2), 210-218, 2001.
• India : University and Technical Institute Students in Mumbai. In J. Gibson-Cline (Ed.), Youth and Coping: 12 Nations Survey of 18-20 year Old Young People, Routledge Publication.

Award

• Was awarded the 2005–2006 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Grant for serving as a Visiting Professor in an institution for Higher Learning in a developing country .

Membership on Executive Committees

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal for Advancement of Counselling, Georgia, USA
• Member, Executive Committee, International Association for Counselling, Brussels, Belgium
• Expert, Development of Training Programmes for 6 Categories of Professionals/Personnel namely Rehabilitation Psychologists/ Rehabilitation Counsellors/Vocational Counsellors/ Placement Officers/Employment Officers and Rehabilitation Social Workers and Member, Sub-Committee, Rehabilitation Council of India, Delhi.
• Member, Board of Studies, Faculty of Social Work, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.
• Chairperson, Voluntary Coordinating Agency.