From February 19th to 27th, 2015, 21 professionals went through and completed the first block of the 5th annual Mental Health Training Program (MHTP) at Ummeed! Through lectures, games, discussions and role plays, participants learned about basic counseling skills and were introduced to some of the key ideas of narrative therapy. Over the course of…

Last week, several members of Ummeed’s Mental Health Team were at the South Asia International Autism Conference 2015 in Delhi to present a poster on narrative therapy, authored by Daisy Daruwalla, Jill Sanghvi, and Jehanzeb Baldiwala.This poster explored the use of externalizing conversations with children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in an Indian…

Block 1 of our Community Mental Health Program (C-MHTP) has officially come to an end! We had a great week using the narrative approach to train such an interesting, curious, and passionate group of 24 community workers. We are so excited to continue being a part of their narrative journeys moving forward! The next block…