Aims and Objectives

To create awarenes of mental health issues and outline various support services available within and outside the University
    • By organising events where we invite psychiatrists to talk about the signs, symptoms and treatment/management of common mental illnesses.
    • By affiliating with various University support services (eg. Niteline, University Counselling Service etc.) and providing information/leaflets about those services on our website, on regent evenings etc.
    • By providing links on the website to support services outside the University (eg. Samaritans).

To create awareness and invite discussion surrounding exciting/controversial developments in the field of psychiatry and mental health
    • By hosting evenings where we invite eminent psychiatrists to share their views or discuss their research/work to University students.

To demonstrate and discuss how mental illness is portrayed in the media, which often potentiates the stigma surrounding various mental health conditions.
    • By hosting 'film nights' where we show popular and new films that portray mental illness; after wich a psychiatrist will discuss the fact or fiction behind the depiction in the film and to dispel common misconceptions about common mental illnesses.

To promote psychiatry as a career
    • By providing information surrounding psychiatry as a career through talkes, postings on our website, providing information about upcoming conferences in psychiatry etc.
    • By hosting social events to allow students interested in mental health and psychiatry to meet up in a fun and relaxed environment.

To create awareness and invite discussion surrounding exciting/controversial developments in the field of psychiatry and mental health
    • By hosting evenings where we invite eminent psychiatrists to share their views or discuss their research/work to University students.

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