Dr Shekar Seshadri

Dr Shekar Seshadri...
	is listed under the category Health/Health Professionals
	focuses on psychotherapy, sexuality, gender, counselling, street and working children, child sexual abuse, substance abuse, life skills education, programme design
	works with children with mental and physical disability, emotional and behavioural problems; teachers; counsellors; personnel from NGOs
	has the resource of workshop design, qualitative research; materials on child sexual abuse, gender, sexuality, mental health and psychotherapy

Dr Shekhar Seshadri is a child psychiatrist and Additional Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at NIMHANS*. His work in child and adolescent mental health, including mental handicap, is in diagnosis and intervention, with a particular emphasis on adolescent therapy and adolescent sexuality. He has worked on gender and sexuality in the context of child sexual abuse and violence against women; and is involved in workshop design, direct intervention, and training of counsellors. For street children, he has helped with counselling, and the design of action research projects for drug abuse prevention, HIV/AIDS and sexuality. He is a consultant to schools, teachers and NGOs working with children in training, programme development, action research and process evaluation, in the areas of life skills and theatre-in-education. His current work is in psychotherapy and psychotherapy training related to children with disorders or children in especially vulnerable circumstances, and to linking this with qualitative research, especially children's narratives.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Hosur Road, Bangalore - 560029.
Ph 26995268 , Fax 26564830 , Email shekhar@nimhans.kar.nic.in