The Honourable Health Minister, Government of Assam, India, launches “Monon”, a programme to address and fill the gap of mental health needs of the COVID-19 patients as well as the quarantined individuals, with a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, and trained voluntary counsellors, under the observation and leadership of Mythili Hazarika, Bornali Das, and Shyamanta Das.
Early Childhood Development Forum’s webinar
11th June, 2020
The President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika acted as a moderater for yet another session in the first global conclave with eminent panelists Simriti Singh (Delhi), Alia El Naggar( Dubai) and Dr Harish Kumar( USA) on challenges and needs of children with special needs.
Article on Importance of Mental Health during CoVID-19 pandemic
28th May, 2020
Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) expressed her views on the importance of taking care of one’s mental health in these testing times on the newspaper ‘Amar Asam’.
Dy365 talk show on positive stories of CoVID-19
On 20 May 2020, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika participated in a talk show organised by Dy365 with an unique theme ‘Positive stories of CoVID-19’. She was also joined by a CoVID-19 positive survivor.
Session on ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’
On 25 May, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika acted as a moderator of the session on ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’ today with speakers Simriti Singh, Alia El Naggar and Dr Vassavi Acharyya.
Tele-mental health and COVID-19 pandemic
“Tele-mental health during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic” by Mythili Hazarika and Suresh Bada Math is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
Best Practice Guidelines at NHM
The “Best Practice Guidelines for Telepsychology during Disasters (COVID-19 Pandemic)” by Mythili Hazarika, Bornali Das, Shyamanta Das, and Dyuksha Hazarika (Acknowledgement: Suresh Bada Math and Cover: Simanta Talukdar and Varsha Avadhany) that is published by the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), is uploaded and available from the website of the National Health Mission, Health & Family Welfare, Government of Assam.
Prag News talk show on psyhosocial issues of CoVID-19
12th May, 2020
Healthy people are caged due to a virus, so, normal anxiety due to psychosocial factors is evident. Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) defined the role of counselors, counseling psychologists, clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric social workers and psychiatrists in this pandemic and elaborated the same for the layman in a talk show organised by Prag news.
A tribute to corona warriors
Dr.Nawadeep Basumatary, MBBS, GMCH, ASSAM made a video taking some pics from juniors, seniors of medical colleges and ASHA, ANM, MPW, both urban and rural health workers. He made this video as a tribute to Doctors, Nurses, ASHA baideu, ANM, MPW, SW and all the front line health workers and Corona Warriors of the nation.
Webinar Session for NSS volunteers (n-285) of UNICEF, India
1st May, 2020
Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) acted as a speaker in a very fruitful webinar session on psychosocial care of children and adolescents for the NSS volunteers (n-285) of UNICEF, India. The entire northeast team had an interactive session and the honourable minister of education, sports and youth welfare Sikkim gave an excellent introduction.
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