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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services at NIMHANS

NIMHANS Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services has recently relocated to a new building opposite the State Bank of India within the NIMHANS Campus. Rehabilitation involves the process of restoring someone’s health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.

NIMHANS is the only department in the country that offers super-specialty rehabilitation services in the form of Neurological Rehabilitation. The Department of Psychiatric and Neuro Rehabilitation Center at NIMHANS offers various tests and services, including Behavioral Interventions, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Functions, Cognitive Potentials, Cognitive Retraining (Hospital and Home-based), Counseling, Diagnostic Clarification, Family or Couple Therapy, General Assessment, Individual Psychotherapy/Counseling, Initial Evaluation/Intake for Individual Therapies, Neurofeedback Training, Neuropsychological Assessment, Personality and Interpersonal Relationships, Specific Functions, and Specific Learning Abilities.

The department also offers several facilities like Urodynamic Laboratory, Gait Analysis Laboratory, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Hand Robot, Computer-based Cognitive Assessment and Training, Virtual Reality, Orthotic Section, and Neurodevelopmental Therapy.

NIMHANS emphasizes recovery-oriented services (ROSeS) in psychiatric rehabilitation, which aims to promote recovery beyond just the alleviation of symptoms of psychiatric disorders. The team provides multidisciplinary interventions to help clients and their families overcome difficulties related to maintaining an active lifestyle, activities of daily living, problem behaviors, socializing with others, regaining self-confidence and initiative, vocational counseling and training, and availing disability benefits.

Tests Done in the Department of Psychiatric and Neuro Rehabilitation Center

Service	Price Per Session
BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS RELAXATION TRAINING	Rs. 150
BIOFEEDBACK ETC. PER SESSION	Rs. 150
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY OF PER SESSION	Rs. 150
COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS	Rs. 500
COGNITIVE POTENTIALS	Rs. 1500
COGNITIVE RETRAINING – HOSPITAL BASED 20 SESSION	Rs. 4000
COGNITIVE RETRAINING – HOME BASED 4 WEEKS	Rs. 2000
COUNSELLING PER SESSION	Rs. 200
DIAGNOSTIC CLARIFICATION	Rs. 500
FAMILY OR COUPLE THERAPY OR EVALUATION FULL 3	Rs. 250
SESSIONS
FAMILY OR COUPLE THERAPY PER SESSION	Rs. 150
GENERAL ASSESSMENT	Rs. 1000
INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY / COUNSELLING PER SESSION	Rs. 150
INITIAL EVALUATION / INTAKE FOR INDIVIDUAL THERAPIES	Rs. 200
PER SESSION
NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING 20 SESSION	Rs. 5000
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT	Rs. 2000
PERSONALITY AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS	Rs. 500
SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS	Rs. 200
SPECIFIC LEARNING ABILITIES	Rs. 300

Facilities available in the department are as mentioned hereunder:

Urodynamic laboratory- for research and management of patients with neurogenic bladder
Gait Analysis Laboratory
2-D Gait Analysis Laboratory
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for guided injections including Botulinum toxin injections
Hand Robot
Computer-based cognitive assessment & training
Virtual Reality
Orthotic Section preparing limb and trunk orthosis for patients with neurological & neurosurgical disorders
Neurodevelopmental therapy with sensory-motor stimulation for pediatric patients with developmental disorders (with Occupational Therapy)

The emphasis in psychiatric rehabilitation has shifted from “just keeping patients occupied” to “recovery for community reintegration”. Hence, we consider our services to be “Recovery Oriented Services (ROSeS)”

The team aims to provide services that promote recovery, beyond only the alleviation of symptoms of psychiatric disorders.