Future Plans
- National Centre for Psychosocial Support in Disaster Management.
- Consolidation of the developments that have occurred in different areas of psychiatric social work and documentation.
- Incorporating the essential elements of psychiatric social work services in the programs of welfare agencies for children, youth, women and the aged.
- Amalgamation of psychiatric social work programs with programs of labour welfare and personnel management in industrial settings.
- Strengthening community efforts to organize rehabilitation services in community like half-way homes, day care centres and special schools.
- Enlisting social service support from student service organizations and other volunteers for the welfare of mentally disabled persons.
- Organizing periodical in-service training programs to social workers in mental health centres as well as teachers working in schools of social work.
- Development of models of training in psychiatric social work.
- Broadening the field work placements for M.Phil trainees to include community agencies in addition to the present postings.
- Helping / guiding schools of social work to start M.Phil / research programs.
- Developing specialized fields like psychiatric rehabilitation, social work with children, family psychiatric social work, social work in community mental health, social work with neurologically / neurosurgically disabled, and social work emergency services.
- Conducting systematic research – exploratory, descriptive, experimental and evaluation studies -on issues related to psychiatric social work and development of indigenous models.
- Development of the department into a centre for advanced studies and research in social work, thus making it as an apex body for psychiatric social work programs for welfare agencies and Universities.