Mental Health in Indian Schools

This volume explores the essential features of designing and providing mental health services for school children in India despite lack of resources and trained personnel.

The author details intervention strategies which deal with specific problems such as emotional disorders, hyperkinetic conduct disorder and learning difficulties.

She also describes an initiative to provide a mental health programme in a rural school.

A concluding chapter outlines the appicability of work done in India to other developing countries in the context of WHO guidelines.