2nd batch on Tele-Mental health Counselling

Online certificate course on Tele-mental health counselling

Course introduction: Telemental health is the use of telecommunications or videoconferencing technology to provide mental health counselling services. RPRIT has successfully completed first batch of Tele-Mental health Counselling course.

Course duration: 4 months

First month: Papers 1,2,3.

2nd month: Paper 4,5

3rd month: Internship

4th month: Examination. 

Registration fees: Rs. 12000 (Single), Group(Rs.10000).

Objectives of the course: 

1. To disseminate knowledge about NIMHANS suggested guidelines for Tele-Mental health services.

2. To disseminate knowledge about Mental health Acts, Models of Mental health.

3. To disseminate knowledge about Performing arts therapy and Rabindrik Psychotherapy.

4. Through Internship, trainees will learn how to write research paper.

Examinations

Trainees will appear at the written tests of each paper and viva-voce. Total marks is 250 (50X5 papers). 

First 4 paper marks: 40

Performance in Google class room and in online class room :10

For Paper 5: Technical report writing : 40.

Viva voce : 10.

Class lecture unit: 1 hour means one lecture.

Total lectures will be  30 (5 PapersX3unitsX2 lectures).  

Qualifications: Post-graduation with 55% marks

Concept note: Prolonged pandemic impairs in-person psychotherapy. Therefore, tele mental health counselling is one of the innovative tool to free the  patient from mental or social stigma. Rabindranath Tagore himself composed several poems, dance drama to stop mental and social stigma in society. His philosophical contributions and postulates of Rabindrik Psychotherapy are useful in outreach community development program.

Difference from first  batch: In the first batch of Tele-Mental health counseling services, we have not paid attention to Performing Arts Therapy, Rabindrik Psychotherapy and technical report writing. In this session, we have added them. Besides, in the earlier batch, we have not paid attention to several acts and NIMHANS suggested guidelines for Tele-Mental health services. This time, we've given special emphasis on them.

Paper 1: National Tele-Mental health program 

Unit 1Mental health care Act 2017, POSCO Act, 2012 , Persons with Disability Act 2016.

Unit 2: Agent-host-environment,, Guidelines for delivering Tele-psychotherapy service set by NIMHANS.

Unit 3: Models of Tele-Mental services.

Unit 4: Digital Mental health services.

Paper 2: Models of Mental Health  and Psychotherapy

Unit 1: Psychodynamic- Freud, Jung, Adler. Psychoanalysis, free association.

Unit 2: Behavioural - Reinforcement theory and Behaviour therapy.

Unit 3: Bio-Psycho-social model:  Self-efficacy theory. 

Unit 4: Cognitive - cognitive distortion, impairment. Cognitive behaviour therapy. 

Paper 3: Psychological testing

Unit 1: Projective test  -Sentence completion test

Unit 2: Anxiety and Depression management- STAI, Beck depression scale

Unit 3: Rabindrik  value theory- Rabindrik value preference scale. 

Unit 4: Neropsychological/ executive function test

Paper 3: Rabindrik Psychotherapy  

Unit 1: Topographical structure of consciousness layers and dynamics.

Unit 2: Flow theory, Quantitative modelling and Conflict management. 

Unit 3: Value theory -Path and goal oriented Rabindrik values.

Unit 4: Performing Arts Therapy- Music, Dance, Drama, Drawing therapy.

Paper 4: Statistics and Research Methodology

Unit 1: Case history method and Mental state examination.

Unit 2: Observation, Check list and Experimental Method.

Unit 3: Measures of Central tendency and Variability.

Unit 4. Data visualization.

Paper 5: Internship and report writing with format

Format for report writing: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, References, Appendix (Introduction of the Institute and  Course, Questionnaire/tools, Original results).