Som Datt is a general medical clinic, it runs a mental health division supported by CFMH.
We introduced the addition of treatment for mental illness, provide staff and ideology, educational psychiatric camps that encourage the community to identify their relatives with mental illness and bring them to the clinic for free treatment.
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A group program to uplift the mental health of the senior citizens is offered. The elderly are often financially, emotionally and socially dependent on their children, who in the modern world, are themselves short of financial means and time. This leads to the elderly becoming neglected isolated and depressed, in addition to suffering from increasing medical ailments as they age.
Medical health is of interest to them. Lectures given by one of our many in-house doctors or a professional from other hospitals explain the diseases common among the elderly, they become topics of an interactive discussion, people are able to ask questions and receive a professional reply.
They benefited from our program, some of their responses were:
A yearly art competition is organized for the children according to their age groups. The art is used as a means to work on developing self-esteem. Each child had to draw a picture of themselves and write down 7 qualities they liked about themselves (idea being to recognize one's good qualities to build self-esteem).
The 2nd part was to draw somebody who you admire/like and what qualities you like about that person. Whilst the children were being ‘tested on their drawing skills', inadvertently focusing on building self-esteem, the parents received support through discussions with the psychiatrist about their concerns and problems in parenting.
Concern for Mental Health UK Registration No. 1098307