Department of Psychiatric Social Work

| Name :: | Ms Debjani Mahanti |
| Qualification:: | MPhil in Psychiatric Social Work |
| Designation:: | Psychiatric Social Work |
| Email ID:: | debjani.mahanti@gmail.com |
| Area of Interest:: | reading writing, providing therapies to mentally ill patients and family members. Couple therapy, family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy. Interested in dealing with various disorders, school and class room management, dealing patients with group therapy,ocd and mental retardation, depression. |
Experience :
- Worked as a trainer for tribal or children belonging from SC and OBC.
- Worked as a coordinator for empowering persons with disability and child education at Bankura.
- Worked as a coordinator for providing training to school children/ teacher.
- Providing life skills and career counseling, women empowerment programs at vikramshila education resource society, kolkata.
- Worked as a councillor in Missionaries of the word providing counselling to children and teaching and non teaching staff.
- Worked as councillor and special educator at Geetanjali Olympiad school and Royale Concorde, providing counselling to children and teaching and non teaching staff. Providing psychotherapy and behavioral therapy.
- Worked as a social work coordinator at Loreto College Kolkata and Service learning Coordinator.
- Providing cost effective platform to share timely information and raise awareness on key issues and encourage participation in community initiatives.
- Supervising UBA villages and linkages between NGOs and carrying out collaborative activities.
- Community development
- Skill training program
- Carrying out community outreach program at village. Impact Analysis, Outcome analysis
- Worked on education, health sanitation and skill training of the village.
- Certificate on Faculty Development program on ” capacity Building for Enhancing Excellence in Higher Education”.
- Certification on life skills: Train the Trainer Programme.
Research Experience :
- A study on parent child interaction pattern and parenting style of children with Hyper kinetic Disorder.
- A brief study on the Dhobosila Environs , a geographical site.
- A brief study on virtual relationships through social networking sites.
- A study on changing Household Roles of Elderly Urban Women

