Psychiatric Clinical Consultations

Professor Mowdat Hussain Rana offers virtual Psychiatric Clinical Consultations.   Telepsychiatry, typically describes the delivery of psychiatric assessment and care through telecommunications technology, usually videoconferencing but also emails and telephonic consultations. These interventions follow the latest recommendations, internationally accepted scientifically grounded practice guidelines of American Psychiatric Association, National Institute of Clinical Excellence, UK, prescription guidelines on all types of psychiatric disorders.

Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Interventions

All psychotherapeutic interventions used are culturally relevant, simple in their approach, and are delivered in patient’s language (English, Urdu, Punjabi, Seraiki, Pothohari). These psychotherapeutic interventions are used to handle issues without use of medication.  This type of psychological intervention helps answer questions, queries, and concerns, of patients and their families in the comfort and lingua of understanding.

The psychological interventions used are evidence based, scientific, and internationally accepted. Using cognitive and behavior therapy protocols suited to the patient’s belief system, and his or her realities of life, to live a meaningful and happier life.

Prof. Mowadat Hussain Rana

 

Meaningful Informational Care

These include removal of myths and misconceptions about the disease, medications being used and the likely outcomes in the short and long run. Using scientific evidence based latest data the therapist aims to answer questions related to causes, side effects, and hazards of treatment, the impact on diet, sex life, transmission of disease to next generation, and ‘parhez’.  Informational care equips the patient and his family to make scientifically rooted, sound decisions for his mental health issues.

Psychosexual difficulties: Through an absolute adherence to ethics of confidentiality, beneficence and non-maleficence, issues related to sexual performance, sexual preference,

Conflict Resolution: Individual, families, groups, office settings, organisations have the potential to get into serious conflicts that can impede performance and outputs as well as threaten mental health. Using modern principles of communication rooted in theory of Transactional Analysis, simple, practical, and tangible tools are suggested to resolve conflicts ensuring personal respect and dignity. 

Psychiatric Protocols

Use of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to deal with clinical depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, unexplained medical symptoms and states.

Behavior Therapy: This therapy works to overcome animal, situational and social phobias which can be sometimes most disabling and fear of open places, markets, heights, flights etc can confine a sufferer to his or her home, or else limit his pursuits.

Childrearing Issues, Adolescent and child-related psychiatric and management issues: Psychotherapeutic principles based on simple child rearing principles are introduced to parents and or offspring’s to manage day to day conflicts and altercations in the name of ‘generation gap’.

Settings for Psychiatric Interventions

Individual Therapy: To reduce personal distress and discomfort, improve quality of life, enhance communication skills, coping capacity, and increase resilience to meet day-to-day and extraordinary challenges of life.

Marital Therapy: To improve marital harmony, and meaningful satisfying married life or interaction amongst partners.

Family Therapy: To enhance the capacity to deal with challenges of one or more patients by mobilizing psychosocial resources at the family level. Also to reestablish and build bonds, improve communication, to reduce conflicts and arguments in family settings particularly the extended and joint families.

Couples and Group Psychosocial Interventions

Following psychosocial Interventions may also be learnt as individuals, couples, and groups:

• Relaxation Training,
• Enhanced Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Quotients and Literacy
• Stress Management
• Anger management
• Healthy Lifestyles,
• Relationship difficulties

 

Types of Psychiatric Disorders

• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar Disorders
• Depression
• Anxiety Related Disorders
• Phobias
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Drug And Alcohol Abuse
• Somatization Disorders
• Hypochondriasis
• Medical Disorders with Associated Psychological and Psychosocial Difficulties
• Unexplained Medical Conditions like Gas, Gola, Chronic Pain, Headaches, Backaches, Possession States
• Psychosoexual Difficulties
• Personality problems resulting in Emotional Instability, Anxious Avoidant Behavior, Deliberate Self Harm, Suicidal Ideation, Impulse Control Issues
• Psychological Trauma Consequent To Childhood Or Adulthood Abuse
• Domestic Violence
• Neuropsychiatric Disorders such as Epilepsy, Attention Deficit And Hyperkinetic Disorder amongst Children and Adults

 

Available Psychiatric Interventions

• Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults
• Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias
• Bipolar Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Delirium
• Eating Disorders
• HIV/AIDS
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Substance Use Disorders
• Suicidal Behaviors