Abstract:
The work embodied in this paper was carried out at Central
Research Institute for Homoeopathy, Kottayam, Kerala which is
conducting clinical research exclusively on Behavioural Disorders
based on stipulated aims and objects. There is an ln-patient Department
and an Out-Patient Department for Behavioural Disorders and
a Mobile Clinical Research Unit for Mental Retardation at 14 centres.
A Child Mental Health Care Programme in a School is also in
progress.
A total number of 3700 cases of various mental disorders
were registered for study in the in-patient and out-patient Departments,
and through visiting the Schools for Mentally Retarded
Children periodically. At the schools for Mentally Retarded an effort is
being made to relieve the behavioural changes in such children. 600
such children are registered for study.
Child Mental Health Care Programme is aimed at exploring
the possibility of prevention of mental illness as it is one of the aims
and objects. ln this project, a total number of 320 cases were
screened and behavioural problems noted in 55 children.
The cases selected for the study are the persons in whom
the primary mental functions such as conscious, attention , concentration,
memory, orientation, judgment and insight are disturbed.