Healthway being a super specialty and tertiary care hospital, has its specialised services focussing on the mental health and mental development of its patients.

Our team comprises of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists, special educators and occupational therapists, rehabilitation specialists etc. The department of Psychiatry at Healthway provides an integrated mental health care system including the clinical evaluation and treatment services for a broad range of emotional, cognitive, and behavioural disorders for patients of all ages and cultural backgrounds. We aim at giving the best of care in psychiatry to our patients . Psychiatry department at old Goa healthway currently manages cases at OPD level..

[expander_maker id=”3″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]Recently we have seen cases like schizophrenia, substance use disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, childhood problems like autism ,ADHD, geriatric issues like dementia ,delirium, late onset psychosis. The increasing incidence of psychiatric disorders along with the acceptance of treatment methods such as use of antidepressants and counselling brings patients seeking help to the hospital. Patient may develop secondary problems such as delirium, post operative psychosis etc.; patient may have co-existing psychiatric illness such as major psychosis, which may interfere with the planned management. Patients may also have personality traits or neurotic disorders that may make him non-compliant with the treatment or patients may develop secondary anxiety or depression in reaction to the medical illness, its treatment or unexpected complications. In such conditions psychological treatment is necessary for proper and total patient care

Referrals of the cases are made to the psychologist when the patient also needs an in depth counselling along with medical treatment.

The therapies or the treatments might include individuals, family, and couples. The Department of Psychiatry strives to create an environment that promotes hope and trust among the patients, their families, and the community. The highly specialized team aspires to improve the emotional and psychological well-being of the patients by providing effective, integrated mental health services with compassion, dignity, and respect[/expander_maker]