POSITIVE PARENTING AS AN INTEGUMENT OF INSTINCTUAL PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION FOR SHEILDING ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH-A Mixed Method Analysis

Abstract

Community mental health covers all the beings existed in the universe. Community mental health a milestone in the field of psychiatry set up in community to promote mental health services to prevent and treat mental illnesses. The researcher adopted a sequential explanatory research design to qualitatively study the psychological and sociological perspectives of the adolescent college students hailing from both rural and urban background. The researcher conducted three focused group discussion constituting 8 members in each group and found that inadequate parenting and over controlled parenting leads them to deal with practising drugs and illegal relationship and finally lost the connection with their immediate community and social connectedness. The latest census 2011 data shows that around 41 percent of India's is below the age of 20 years. According to The Times of India, half the population is in the 20-59 age group. So focussing deinstitutionalization and treating the mental illness and preventing the same by evolving a therapeutic community can bring down the height of mental illness and prevent the upcoming worsening of mental illness among the adolescents who covers the 41% of the total population