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Mental health nursing focuses on treating individuals with mental illnesses or psychological distress. Mental illness can be triggered by life events like divorce, death, or changes in personal or professional circumstances, as well as substance abuse. When mentally ill, the roles of a patient's relatives, friends, and community are important, as is the role of a psychologist or psychotherapist in assessing the illness, providing support, and developing customized treatment programs. The document discusses students from a psychology department visiting Manas Hospital to observe different cases and the roles of psychologists and relatives in counseling patients and helping them.

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Mental health nursing focuses on treating individuals with mental illnesses or psychological distress. Mental illness can be triggered by life events like divorce, death, or changes in personal or professional circumstances, as well as substance abuse. When mentally ill, the roles of a patient's relatives, friends, and community are important, as is the role of a psychologist or psychotherapist in assessing the illness, providing support, and developing customized treatment programs. The document discusses students from a psychology department visiting Manas Hospital to observe different cases and the roles of psychologists and relatives in counseling patients and helping them.

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Mental health nursing is the specialty of nursing that focuses on treating individuals

having mental illnesses or psychological distress.

When all systems of our body like respiratory, gastrointestinal, nervous etc.. work
in harmony with mind then the person said to be healthy.

Mental illness may be triggered by several different events like divorce, death,
change in personal or professional circumstances alcohol and drug abuse.

In such conditions rule of patient’s relatives, his friend’s, neighbors and all people
he encountered in daily routine plays a very important role.

Then next rule comes of a psychologist or psychotherapist.

Some of the common tasks that mental health provider performs are

 Assessing patient’s mental health.


 Identifying the trigger and exact nature of mental illness. 
 Offering patient support and assistance.
 Developing, implementing and overseeing customized behavior
modification programs.

MANAS HOSPITAL VISIT

We the students of MA Psychology department visited MANAS HOSPITAL on


7th October 2019. We saw different kinds of patient in the hospital 
We had a talk and discussion with the patient’s relatives and psychologist that
were helping them

 We saw the role of Psychologist in counseling and study different types of cases

Aim
The patient should get all required for his psychological disease and he should
get it officers. 

Goal
To treat psychologically ill person. 
To reduce the stress. 
To reduce stress and to take workshop on stress management. 

Vision
To create awareness regarding the mental diseases and its treatment in the
society
To make the society healthy and mentally active

Hospital Information

Manas Hospital is located at Mantha chowfully, opposite to Santkrupa Hospital in Jalna

district. It caters to the need of patients suffering from mental illness and trauma. It also

provides post treatment care to the patients.

Dr. Prakash Ambekar, a neuropsychiatrist is in charge of the hospital. The hospital has

Neuropsychological and Rehabilitation centre. The hospital also provides counseling

centre, which is looked after Mrs. Kalinda Udhaan. It carries out various examinations

like EEG, ECT, IQ test, IPD, NARCO analysis, counseling, stress management. He has

trained staff and trained psychotherapist to provide proper counseling to his patients.

Mental health helpline are also made available in the hospital.


The hospital is staffed with nurses, compounders, cleaners, wards boys who are
supportive. The hospital has all required facilities and its campus is clean

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