Envisioning Mental Health Social Work: Experiential Insights from India

Abstract

The current paper highlights the expansive contribution by social work in the field of mental health. Contextualizing the scenario of mental health care in India, the paper seeks to focus on the role of social workers in understanding clients’ concerns as contextual, transactional, cultural and relational in nature while accentuating their lived experiences. Mapping the landscape of educating social work students in the Indian context, the paper also traces intrinsic challenges in the practice domain of mental health social work. Based on experiential insights as a social work educator from India, the author envisions the unique professional contribution by social workers in the sphere of mental health. The paper also proposes a research agenda for future implications and envisages areas for strengthening mental health social work within the broader realm of global mental health.

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