Training manuals

A Physician’s Guide to Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Authors: Dr. Vikram Patel (M. R. C. Psych, PhD), Dr. Ashit Sheth (M.D., D.P.M).
This manual is for doctors. It can be used as a guide to treat patients with medically unexplained symptoms like sleep problems, tiredness, headaches, chest pain and backaches.
(Price Rs. 50.00)

STI/RTI Research Methods in India: Problems and Sloutions(Proceedings of a Workshop jointly organized by Sangath, Goa and Population Council, New Delhi.
 

This book is written for researchers in the field of STI/RTI, in order to help them improve research findings. This book contains chapter on epidemiology, improving the validity of data, addressing the ethical issues, improving comparability and developing an RTI/STI research network.
(Price Rs. 150.00)

Helping a Child with Learning Difficulties
This is a manual developed for training on learning disabilities, covering all basic issues on learning disabilities like assessment, remediation, and individualized education programs.
(Price Rs.300/-)

Basic Skills in Counseling (VCD)
Producer- Reach-Sangath
Directed by - Daegal Godinho
Script written by – Gracy Andrew
Duration - 25mins

The counselling skills of attending behaviour, empathy, paraphrasing, clarifying, questioning and summarising are covered with good and bad practice and explanations of the usefulness of each skill.
(Price Rs.250/-)

 Common Mental Disorders in General Health Care
Author : Prof Vikram Patel

 Barefoot Counseling
Authors: Fiona Dias Saxena and Gracy Andrew
This is a reference manual has evolved from treatment of patients with depression and counseling victims of violence. The manual has three sections. The first section deals with the general nature of counseling, its characteristics and the essential skills of counseling.

The second section describes the cycle of depression and anxiety, its symptoms, and how one detects depression at community level. The third section deals with interventions that community workers can do, how he or she can help and whom to approach for help when necessary.
Published in English and Marathi.
(Price Rs.75)

The State of Goa's Health
In association with Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI)
Edited by: Prof Vikram Patel, Rinea Dourado, Dr. Nandita de Souza,
Fiona Dias Saxena

The State of Goa's Health describes the public health priorities and recommendations for the people of Goa. The book documents the health situation in Goa with a view to planning future strategies.  The book mainly covers three areas: vulnerable groups in Goa, lifestyles and health, and ethics & quality of care. The book is an outcome of contributions from health professionals, academics, social activists, media persons and politicians from the state.
(Price Rs. 70/-) 

 All for Teens
Authors: Gracy Andrew, Sumedha Belokar, Mahalaxmi Bhobe,
Dr. Nandita de Souza, Prof Vikram Patel, Fiona Dias Saxena.

“All For Teens” a set of handouts for adolescents, parents and teachers was developed. The handouts cover various issues of concern to teenagers. The response to the handouts has been good particularly from teachers. These handouts are also being distributed to teenage clients and their parents at Sangath.
Published in English and Marathi.
(Price Rs.100/-) 

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Learning Disabilities – Looking Beyond. (Training Manual)

This Training Manual is developed to empower teachers with skills that can be used to help the children with learning difficulties.

Contributors: Dr. Nandita de Souza, De. Martia Adam, Sujata Noronha, Liesl Barreto, Prachi Khandeparkar, Ritwika Sinha.
(Price Rs. 100.00)

The Teacher's Toolkit
Authors: Gracy Andrew, Dr. Nandita de Souza, Sujata Noronha, Nazneen Sarosh-Rebelo
"The Teacher's Toolkit" is an informative guide for primary school teachers, which addresses behavioral and developmental difficulties in the classroom.
It is filled with practical information about dealing with issues such as scholastic backwardness, discipline and building self-esteem in school children. Various strategies in behavior modification, remedial education, language enrichment and improving school environments are described.
(Price Rs. 100/-)

A School Counsellor Casebook
Authors: Vikram Patel, Lisa Aronson, Gauri Divan
This casebook is intended to provide a solid foundation for counselling practice in schools. It is an accessible guide, training tool and resource for school counsellors, clinical supervisors of counsellors, educational and clinical psychologists, school principals and teachers, social workers and other mental health professionals and supervised paraprofessionals working in all countries to provide mental health services to school-going youth (grades K-12, age 6-18 years)

(Price Rs 499 June 2013)