On 4 and 6 September, 2018 at Sun View Hotel, Guwahati, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Dr. Mythili Hazarika delivered training on the “Psychological Aspect of Dealing with Cancer Patient” for an ongoing ‘Baseline study to understand the experience of cancer patients/ their family members in selected hospitals providing cancer care in Assam’. The objectives of this study are to understand the challenges faced by the cancer patients in current cancer setup and the issues related to accessibility, waiting times, out of pocket expenditures, quality of care.

Dr. Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) attended the Teachers’ Day celebration at Udayachal, Guwahati with the Special Children and spoke on the role of parents and teachers for the full potential development of differently-abled students.

The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das presented the poster, titled “An exploratory study from eastern India on neurological soft signs and spontaneous movement disorders in schizophrenia spectrum disorders”, co-authored by Samrat Singh Bhandari, Simanta Talukdar, Arunima Dutta, Nabanita Barman, and Dipesh Bhagabati, in the eight edition of the International Conference on Schizophrenia (IConS VIIII) of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) 2018 at Hyatt Regency, Chennai.

Around 26 teachers form various physical and mental rehabilitation centres participated in the Teachers’ Training Programme at Regional Science Centre, Guwahati, where Dr. Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) shared her knowledge and experience.

As a special invite, Dr. Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) got the opportunity to train the teachers of special education, physiotherapy, speech therapy, and behaviour therapy with a formal as well as interactive session along with parents at Spandan multi-specialty rehabilitation centre located in Rajgarh, Guwahati on psychosocial issues of differently able children and their parents. All the service providers seemed to be quire dedicated and passionate about their duties and responsibilities which was noticed from their attentiveness and patience throughout the two hours programme. Parents seemed to have a lot of unresolved conflicts in dealing with their children’s issues and their own psychopathology. This needs to be always addressed along with special or remedial training with children. Overall a stimulating experience!