Media Release

Mangaluru, Aug 23: St Agnes post graduate department of clinical psychology, as a part of the curriculum, the students of MSc clinical psychology made a visit to White Doves psychiatric nursing and destitute home to conduct a seminar on ‘Building Resilience and Coping with Illness’ on August 23.

This event was aimed to bring insight into how the participants can improve their resilience and cope with chronic illness. There were few activities which conducted to engage everyone.

The seminar was attended by all the inmates at the White Doves institution, and covered topics such as understanding what chronic illness is, how to improve emotional wellbeing’s and increase resilience and on the importance of support system.

Three activities were conducted and the participants actively engaged with the students and sang few songs. The feedback from the participants was very positive stating that they felt happy to have the students over and interact with them.

Overall, the event was very successful as the partcipants were able to engage and impart knowledge with those who attended.