Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) utilises brief-pulse stimulation technique under anaesthesia to produce the desired therapeutic effect. ECT often works effectively when other treatments have been unsuccessful, drug resistant cases or in severe illness episodes like catatonic schizophrenia, severe depression and bipolar illness, high suicide risk cases.

At GIPS we have provision for safer delivery of ECT treatment provided to patients on indoor and outpatient basis. We have a team of visiting anesthetists and psychiatrist for delivery of the treatment in a controlled setting.

GIPS Indoor provides a range of admission facilities to suit different requirements.

GENERAL WARD
We have gender specific wards; a separate ward for males and females to ensure patient’s privacy is maintained. There are 6 beds for males and 6 beds for females in general ward.

SEMI-SPECIAL ROOM
SPECIAL ROOM
Special rooms with andwithout A.C.

DELUXE ROOMS

At GIPS we offer a comprehensive and holistic service for children, adolescents and their families. We have a team of Child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists all working under one roof to address various emotional, behavioral, psychosomatic, educational and neurodevelopment problems pertaining to this age group.

We provide Assessment and Treatment for:

• Autistic spectrum disorder
• ADHD
• Intellectual disability
• Communication disorders like stuttering / social communication
• Specific Learning disabilities including dyslexia, reading and arithmetic l difficulties.
• Childhood anxiety and depression
• Behavioral problems
• Academic underachievement’s/school refusal.

As part of our comprehensive service we provide the following:
Clinical Intervention all under one roof

• Comprehensive Psychiatric consultation to establish diagnosis
• Psychotherapy Including CBT and Dynamic Therapy
• Child counseling
• Family Therapy
• Special Education
• Social Skills Training
• Career Counseling
• Parenting Guidance

We offer a comprehensive care package for patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependence/ addiction/ abuse/ harmful use. The service runs in both outpatient and indoor setting, with close liaison between the two settings.

Patients undergo a comprehensive assessment involving pre-admission counseling based upon the principles of Motivational Enhancement therapy to prepare the patients for the undergoing the treatment. Hospitalization involves management of withdrawal symptoms with medication and psychological support offered both to patient and their families. Patients with alcohol addiction are also encouraged to attend Alcohol Anonymous groups run locally both during there indoor stay and post discharge. Post discharge patients are followed up in outpatient clinic where they receive ongoing treatment for maintenance of de-addiction and psychological support for relapse prevention. We have a team of expert consultant psychiatrists dedicated to work primarily for patients with addiction problems.

We offer different types of counseling service addressing specific needs of our patients. We have a team of highly experienced psychologists and psychiatrists trained to deliver a range of psychological therapies/ counseling.

• Family Therapy
• Psychosexual Counseling
• Occupational Counseling
• Educational/ Career Counseling
• Addictions/Rehabilitation Counseling
• Stress Management
• Pre-marital Counseling
• Marital Counseling
• Crisis Intervention

FAMILY THERAPY

“ DEEP INSIDE US, WE KNOW WHAT EVERY FAMILY THERAPIST KNOWS: THE PROBLEMS BETWEEN THE PARENTS BECOME THE PROBLEMS WITHIN THE CHILDREN”

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.

Family therapy is based on the belief that every family has its own sets of values and principles and thus is unique. The personalities of all the family members and the influence of the extended family( grandparents, aunts and uncles) determine the family structure and their pattern of communication.

Sometimes illness in one family member maybe a symptom of a larger family problem. In such cases it becomes necessary to treat the entire family. Any change in one member of the family affects both the family structure and each member individually. Thus family therapist works on the whole family.

A Family therapist has many roles namely it teaches the members about how a family functions, helps the family to focus more on the family as a whole and less on the member with a illness , helps the family to resolve their internal conflicts and teaches ways to cope with the anxieties.

On a whole .it enables the family members to care about each other to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, to understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on strengths and make useful changes in their relationships and their lives

EDUCATION AND CAREER COUNSELLING
“IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM TALK TO A THERAPIST NOT FACEBOOK”
It’s a beautiful thing when a career and passion come together.
Academic life is a bewildering maze marked by intense competition, peer pressure and stress, not to mention the dilemma of making right career choices. Students are plagued by confusion, doubts and negative thoughts. In this scenario, the education counselor provides valuable advice. Education counselors not only just build careers but also work as a support system that helps youngsters grow as individuals and professionals
In olden days the only ones to guide the like minds were the parents and other senior family members. Therefore, we see a large number of cases where type of job and basic qualification a person possesses are totally divorced. This sometimes has raised serious concern about the utility of education per seen.
In the last decade things have changed. Today’s youth are more focused, inquisitive. Knowledgeable and ambitious. Educations counselors help to channelize these attributes for the betterment of the youth and its environment.
They assist students in making career decisions after evaluating their abilities, interests and skills through interviews, personality and aptitude assessments. The mutually chosen career path is best suited to the candidate’s profile, interests and limitations. Counselors work with students also to develop organization, time management, stress management, effective study habits and other such vital skills.
Today, counselors also have to be involved in helping students deal with learning disabilities, substance abuse, death, suicide, divorce and other crisis situations. Not just limited to students, educational counselors also collaborate with parents, teachers and other school staff in a bid to monitor and evaluate educational progress, update them about individual growth so that the student has the best chance of success.

ADDICTION AND REHABILITION
“YOU CANT CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF THE WIND BUT YOU CAN ADJUST THE SAILS TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION”

PREMARITAL AND MARITAL THERAPY
“WHEN TWO PEOPLE REALLY CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER, THEY ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT WORK. NO MATTER HOW HARD IT IS”
Many couples get caught up in spending time planning their weddings without developing a plan for their marriage. The early stages of a relationship, when the feelings you have for your partner are usually positive, is the ideal time to become more conscious and intentional in the ways you interact and work together. Counseling can give you insights into where your particular relationship dynamics might be heading in the wrong direction.
Premarital counseling deals with how past relationships might impact the marriage and how to manage these influences, how to improve communications toward deeper levels of intimacy, how to express love to each other, how to balance roles and responsibilities, and other issues important to the couple. Premarital counseling will help minimize surprises and prepare couples for a marriage that can survive even the most difficult seasons of life
Once upon a time marriage was a ‘forever’ commitment. Today, however, it’s a completely different story with some marriages being as short lived as just a few days or months. Divorce is no longer an alien or feared word among couples.
Couples counseling is a form of therapy that looks to improve communication and resolve issues within an intimate relationship. It’s a talk therapy for two people within a relationship.
Common relationship problems faced are lack of trust, betrayal, jealousy, lack of communications, financial issues, abusive behavior, sexual problems, family conflicts and other life changes. The aim of the counselor is to help them understand external factors such as family values, religion, and lifestyle; reflect on the past and how to operate the present, communicate in a more constructive way, understand the source of the argument, negotiate and resolve conflicts where possible.
Counselling will offer you the space to grow and decide what you would like the future to hold for both of you.

STRESS MANAGEMENT
“SLOW DOWN AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE CHASING WILL COME AROUND CATCH YOU"

Manage the stress before it manages you.
Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the ever-increasing demands of life. Stress management means trying to control and reduce the tension that occurs in stressful situations. This is done by making emotional and physical changes. The degree of stress and the desire to make the changes will determine how much improvement takes place.
Stress management program usually focuses on the positive situations, plans fun activities and takes regular breaks. Different and effective ways of managing stress are:
1 start a physical activity, even a 20 min of brisk walking outdoors can calm you done;
2. Change your diet, Include more nutritious food;
3. Try to socialize , meeting friends and relatives often helps you to feel less stressed, try
4. Try Relaxation techniques such as guided imagery, listening to music, practicing yoga .
At the end, Be good to yourself and others.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
“ KEEP CALM AND TRUST THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST”
“Occupation” refers to practical and purposeful activities that allow people to live independently and have a sense of identity. This could be essential day-to-day tasks such as self-care, work or leisure. –
Occupation is subjectively experienced. For example:to one person the occupation of “shopping” feels like “a real chore”, to another it’s “fun”, to yet another it’s “a chance to relax”. Activity can be classified into cultural categories such as “work”, but each occupation is experienced as blend of productivity, pleasure and restoration.
Occupational therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists work with people of all ages to help them overcome the effects of disability caused by physical or psychological illness, ageing or accident. Occupational therapist advice you on how to approach a task differently how to use equipment or assistive technology, how to adapt your living or working environment, and help you find strategies to reach your chosen goals.
An occupational therapist will consider all your needs – physical, psychological, social and environmental. This support can make a real difference to your life, giving you a renewed sense of purpose, opening up new horizons, and changing the way you feel about the future.
Theywork in a variety of settings including health organizations, social care services, housing, education, re-employment schemes, occupational health, prisons, voluntaryorganisations or as independent practitioners.

PSYCHOSEXUAL COUNSELLING
Many people have a problem with sex at some point in their life. Some people deal with these problems themselves but, for others, sexual problems can cause a lot of distress and unhappiness.
Individuals living with long-term sexual problems are often too ashamed and embarrassed to discuss their concerns with anyone – not even their partner – and this can take a toll on their sex life, relationships and well-being. Psychosexual therapy provides an outlet for people to talk about their issues with a trusted and supportive therapist who specializes in resolving all kinds of sexual problems. A sex therapist will listen to you describe your problems and assess whether the cause is likely to be psychological, physical or a combination of the two.
Talking about and exploring your experiences will help you get a better understanding of what is happening and the reasons. The therapist may also give you exercises and tasks to do with your partner in your own time.
Some of the problems faced are lack of desire, difficulty in keep an erection ordifficulty having an orgasm, premature ejaculation or other ejaculation problems, pain during sex or inability to have penetrative sex.

GATB- Generalized Aptitude test.
The GATB profile of occupational aptitudes can be used to determine appropriate career and/or training paths. The GATB measures nine distinct aptitudes using 12 separate tests (eight pencil and paper tests, and four performance tests):

• G – General Learning Ability
• V – Verbal Aptitude
• N – Numerical Aptitude
• S – Spatial Aptitude
• P – Form Perception
• Q – Clerical Perception
• K – Motor Co-ordination
• F – Finger Dexterity
• M – Manual Dexterity

The GATB may be used in a variety of ways to achieve the objectives you have set for your ability testing program:

Clinical Intervention all under one roof

1. To determine the full range of aptitudes for groups and/or specific individuals (the entire test would be administered in this situation).
2. To measure the individual’s aptitudes and relate them to already specified occupational preferences only (the aptitudes related to these preferences would be tested).
3. To provide relative scores in a number of different aptitude areas; information that is highly useful in educational counselling (the test would be administered in its entirety or in the specific areas of interest to the counsellor).

EPPS

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) was designed primarily to provide quick and convenient measures of a number of relatively independent normal personality variables. The statements in the EPPS and the variables that these statements purport to measure have their origin in a list of manifest needs presented by H. A. Murray and others

The EPPS can be used for personal counselling, recruitment, research and many other purposes. It is a well known test with a solid basis developed in 1957 and has proved to be a stable and good instrument in many fields.

The EPPS provides measures of the following 15 personality variables.

1. Achievement (ach)
2. Deference (def)
3. Order (ord)
4. Exhibition (exh)
5. Autonomy (aut)
6. Affiliation (aff)
7. Intraception (int)
8. Succorance (suc)
9. Dominance (dom)
10. Abasement (aba)
11. Nurturance (nur)
12. Change (chg)
13. Endurance (end)
14. Sexuality (sex)
15. Aggression (agg)

In addition to the above 15 personality variables, the EPPS provides a measure of test consistency and a measure of profile stability.

SHI- Study Habit Inventory
This survey is designed to find out what study habits you have developed at this stage of your life. Knowing the results of this inventory can help students develop better and more productive ways to study and help teachers do a better job of teaching.

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EEPS Brochure

Neuropsychological tests are specifically designed tasks used to measure a psychological function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway.

Neuropsychological tests are designed to examine a variety of cognitive abilities, including speed of information processing, attention, memory, language, and executive functions, which are necessary for goal-directed behavior. By testing a range of cognitive abilities and examining patterns of performance in different cognitive areas. Neuropsychological testing is an important component of the assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury, dementia , neurological conditions, and psychiatric disorders.

Neuropsychological testing is also an important tool for examining the effects of toxic substances and medical conditions on brain functioning.

Categories

1. Intelligence – A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience.
   It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—”catching on,” “making sense” of things, or “figuring out” what to do.
2. Memory - Memory is a very broad function which includes several distinct abilities, all of which can be selectively impaired and require individual testing. There is disagreement as to the number of memory systems, depending on the psychological perspective taken. From a clinical perspective, a view of five distinct types of memory is in most cases sufficient. Semantic memory and episodic memory (collectively called declarative memory or explicit memory); procedural memory and priming or perceptual learning (collectively called non-declarative memory or implicit memory) all four of which are long term memory systems; and working memory or short term memory. Semantic memory is memory for facts, episodic memory is autobiographical memory, procedural memory is memory for the performance of skills, priming is memory facilitated by prior exposure to a stimulus and working memory is a form or short term memory for information manipulation.
3. Language - Language functions include speech, reading and writing, all of which can be selectively impaired.
4. Executive function – Executive functions are various cognitive processes and sub-processes. The executive functions include: problem solving, planning, organizational skills, selective attention, inhibitory control and some aspects of short term memory.
5. Visuospatial – Neuropsychological tests of visuospatial function the areas of visual perception, visual construction and visual integration.
6. Dementia specific – Dementia testing is often done by way of testing the cognitive functions that are most often impaired by the disease e.g. memory, orientation, language and problem solving.

Neuropsychological Test

1. Wechsler memory scale
2. PGI memory scale
3. Bender Gestalt test (BGT)
4. PGI battery of brain dysfunction
5. Luria-Nabraska neuropsychological test battery
6. Dementia Rating Scale

Personality is made up the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. It arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life.

A personality test is a questionnaire or other standardized instrument designed to reveal aspects of an individual’s character or psychological makeup.
The first personality tests were developed in the 1920s

1. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
2. 16 Personalilty Factor ( 16 PF)

A projective test is a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts.

1. Rorschach In-blot Test -The Rorschach inkblot test is a type of projective psychological test . Used to analyze personality and emotional functioning.

Rorschach Inkblot test is a psychological test in which subjects’ perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation. In which detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly.
The Rorschach Inkblot test was not originally intended to be a projective measure of personality. Instead, it was meant to produce a profile of people with schizophrenia (or other mental disorders) based upon score frequencies.
2. Thematic apperception test
3. Draw-A-Person test
4. Sentence completion test
5. Children Apperception Test
- The CAT uses relating to problems of feeding and other oral activity, sibling rivalry, parent child relations, aggression, toilet training and other childhood experiences based on psychoanalytic theory- orality, oedipal complex, aggression and the like.

Mental retardation (MR) is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as a level of intellectual functioning (as measured by standard intelligence tests) that is well below average and results in significant limitations in the person’s daily living skills (adaptive functioning).

Description

Mental retardation begins in childhood or adolescence before the age of 18. In most cases, it persists throughout adult life. A diagnosis of mental retardation is made if an individual has an intellectual functioning level well below average, as well as significant limitations in two or more adaptive skill areas. Intellectual functioning level is defined by standardized tests that measure the ability to reason in terms of mental age (intelligence quotient or IQ).

An adaptive skill is a term that refers to skills needed for daily life. Such skills include the ability to produce and understand language (communication); home-living skills; use of community resources; health, safety, leisure, self-care, and social skills; self-direction; functional academic skills (reading, writing, and arithmetic); and job-related skills.

IQ Test

1. Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
2. Seguin form board
3. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
4. Bhatia’ battery of performance tests
5. Raven’s progressive matrices

Adaptive behavior includes the age-appropriate behaviors necessary for people to live independently and to function safely and appropriately in daily life. Adaptive behaviors include life skills such as grooming, dressing, safety, food handling, working, money management, cleaning, making friends, social skills, and the personal responsibility expected of their age and social group.

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a psychological projective test, where in a client is instructed to form stories from pictures depicted on cards. This test was administered to assess dominant drives, emotions, sentiments, complexes and conflicts of personality.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a psychological test that assesses personality traits and psychopathology. It is primarily intended to test people who are suspected of having mental health or other clinical issues.

The MMPI-2 is designed with 10 clinical scales which assess 10 major categories of abnormal human behavior, and four validity scales, which assess the person’s general test-taking attitude and whether they answered the items on the test in a truthful and accurate manner.

16-PF can be used, among other applications, for identifying personalities, which fit specific profiles for occupational applications. It includes a list of just over 100 statements on a self-scoring sheet. In completing 16-PF, it is simply a case of choosing between two statements given, with the option also to choose a midway answer. Thus there are three options to each statement.

It examines personality factors, and is also useful for analyzing stress levels and anxiety. The second order factors can be looked at in more detail, and males and females can be scored slightly differently.

Children Appreciation Test

Neuropsychological Test

Projective Test