Psychosocial Interventions for Social Issues in Contemporary India

What is this book about? Principles and practice of psychosocial interventions .- Rise to Stardom: Mental health and digital interventions in the context of COVID 19.- COVID-19 pandemic and Mental health and psychosocial Interventions in India:
Decoding the Past and Informing the Future.- Feminist psychosocial intervention approaches to respond to domestic violence against
women: Evolution and emerging evidence from India.- Psychosocial interventions with communities to prevent violence against women and girls in complex urban informal settings.

U. Vindhya was formerly with Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad campus, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, and the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad. Her research interests lie at the intersections of psychology, feminism, social justice and human rights, with a focus on gender and mental health, violence against women, trafficking, feminist counselling, and the psychological dynamics of women's political activism. Her publications include the co-edited Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture and Rights (Springer, New York) which won the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology (USA); and Feminist Psychologies: Identities, Relations and Well-being in India (Routledge, 2024).