PLAN OF ACTION ABOUT INTEGERATION PAPER

TITLE: OVERLAP BETWEEN PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST IN TRAINING, PRACTICE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.

There is a clear and accepted identity for psychiatric social worker and clinical psychologist as mental health professionals. But in current scenario we find a lot of controversies related to lot the role of both professionals. There are similarities, dissimilarities and overlapping areas for both. As clinical psychological students, we felt there is a need to clearly realise about the role and identity of both psychiatric social worker and clinical psychologist with respect to training, practice and psychotherapy.S0 we thought of interviewing practicing clinical psychologists and social workers in different settings to explore whether the competencies, skills, training etc matters in the successful healing of clients. And we also intend to interview trainees in both field to get to know about different type of training they receive in same institution. And also we intent to ask what will happen if integrated mental health education comes into practice.
Jinu Abraham, Firozna T.