Kurian Jose

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• Worked with family members to develop support networks and multifaceted coping techniques focused on client needs.
• Helped clients develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
• Therapeutic mental health interventions for adults and adolescent both online and offline mode

• Geriatric Care: Customized individual care and mental health well-being for senior citizens during their long stay at institutional care
• Managing the behavioural and physical issues caused by the degeneration of the brain
• Advocating for persons with Alzheimer's dementia and managing the family care burden by mobilizing support
• Active ageing concept based activities and management of Activities of daily living at the institutional level and in the community
• Case management: Provided psychosocial case management through assessment, interventions counselling, therapies and rehabilitation to senior homeless patients with mental health issues in 80 bedded psychiatric hospital
• Disabled and geriatric long stay patients: Led professional team for providing Psychosocial interventions for 110 long-stay patients (Aged between 18 to 80) under institutional care, Thanal Veedu
• Assisted senior persons with physical health issues at the hospital
• Disability and disadvantaged Geriatric population: Headed Thanal National Project for street dwellers' rehabilitation where emphasis was given to the rescue and rehabilitation of geriatric population who are in need of palliative or End of Life Care.

• Social Work intervention among the ethnic senior population: Managed first-time project on Mental Health care of Ethnic Community in Wayanad district of Kerala, Providing community-based integrated rehabilitation services for senior citizens with mental illness among tribal hamlets
• Community Mental Health Care: Home-based mental health intervention for senior citizens
• Regular home visits of senior citizens of the ethnic population follow up of general and mental health care, family interventions and assistance to reduce caregivers' burden
• Crisis Intervention/De-Escalation
• Structured Decision-Making
• Active Listener and Expressive speaker
• Critical Thinking and effective Planning/Organizing.

• Geriatric Care: Provided psycho-social support to four geriatric homes in four districts under the Social Justice Department, government of Kerala, India
• Initiated individual care plans, group activities, training and counselling for senior care and management of age-related mental health issues
• Institutional Care for Senior Citizens in long stay homes for mentally ill: Rehabilitation initiatives of chronic mentally ill residing at government homes for rehabilitation and long stay homes under the government of Kerala, India
• Recovery oriented group interventions at long-stay homes for persons under rehabilitation from mental illness.

• Hospital based senior care intervention
• Psychosocial management of senior citizens admitted at hospital with mental illness
• Provided overall supervision of inpatients Provided mental health support and therapeutic interventions
• Community Programmes: Initiated specific awareness programmes for communities on lifestyle diseases and ageing issue
• Community Health Care through sensitization of communicable and non-communicable diseases Psychosocial assessments of geriatric population with physical or psychological health issues and conducted special medical camps in rural community
• Coordinated program referrals for community-based resources
• Case Management: Formulated treatment plan strategies with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive and continuous care plans
• Helped geriatric population and their families develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behaviour modification
• Coordinated individualized discharge plans to manage safe transition back into community and home environments.