Aarti Jagannathan

Dr Aarti Jagannathan, has completed her Masters in Psychiatric Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and her M.Phil and PhD in Psychiatric Social Work from NIMHANS, Bangalore. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Social Work/ Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). Her areas of interest include Rehabilitation of patients with psychiatric disorders (especially schizophrenia), Human rights of mentally ill, Yoga for mental health, Caregiver interventions, and Psycho-oncology. She has clinical experience of psychotherapy, rehabilitation and counseling of more than 2500 psychiatric in and outpatients at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore (NIMHANS; 2003-2011). She has published more than 40 publications to her credit in National, International journals and books. Has co-ordinated Merck (MSD), CCRYN, FOGARTY, TISS funded Research projects in schizophrenia, dementia, play therapy and yoga. She has attended multiple National and International conferences for presentation of paper and won awards. She is also a recipient of the 5th National Women’s Excellence Award 2012: Nav Kiran (Young women Achiever) by the Government of India (GOI) and Women’s International Network (WIN).