Welcome to SANTHI CHARITABLE SOCIETY..

Santhi Charitable Society envisages rehabilitation in four stages:

Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Psycho social rehabilitation through various psycho-hygiene programmes

Advocating a psycho-hygienic life through practising thorough personal cleanliness and hygiene.

Occupational rehabilitation

Our psychiatric rehabilitation is formulated on the principle that a person with mental illness. The objective of the rehabilitation is to make each destitute independent functional, so that they will be able to integrate back into their family / society. In Santhi Bhavan, persons with psychiatric problems are rehabilitated mainly through participation in organized routines of the day and thereby getting support to come to the mainstream of the society. Through our rehabilitation programmes, we help the inmates to maintain better quality in their relation with family and friends, in physical and mental health, in recreative games and physical labour as well as in spiritual vision.

Psychiatric rehabilitation at Santhi Bhavan involves therapeutic rehabilitation programmes and occupational rehabilitation programmes.

The therapeutic rehabilitation programme includes:

	Group therapy
	Personal counseling
	Personal exercise like yoga
	Physical exercise
	Other psycho hygienic training
	Art therapy
	Creative occupational therapies
	Recreational and interactional programme

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The occupational rehabilitation program at Santhi Bhavan is an interdisciplinary, team-based program designed to evaluate and treat mentally challenged individuals and to assist them in getting back to creative work culture essential for a life self sufficient.. This program incorporates physical training, real or simulated work activities, medical and psychological treatment etc., focusing on both the health and the occupational needs of each rehabilitated individual.

Rehabilitated person is helped to acquire skills and to develop a social network, which is not solely comprised of persons with mental illness but with people at all levels in the society. Santhi Bhavan has developed a high profile group called the ‘Friends of House’, which is very effective in this regard.

Through creative, recreative and educative programmes, Santhi Bhavan seeks to integrate post-psychiatric patients into the social, cultural and spiritual world.

Creative:-	Therapeutic methods include different occupational therapies like horticultural therapy and small-scale agricultural therapy. These methods help the individual regain his lost attachment to his surroundings. Job oriented programmes .
	such as candle making, soap making, book-binding, umbrella assembling, etc., helps clients regain their lost dignity, and respect towards human labour

Recreative:-		Therapies include play therapy, music therapy, narrative therapy etc. These help them gradually regain the ability to make friends, interact with each other and relearn the norms of human conduct.

Educative:-	Therapy include different pedagogical methods focusing on learning, writing and observation. Using simple mass media like newspapers, magazines and television, and through personal dialogue we try to revive their capacity for reading, writing and thinking.

These therapeutic programmes are undertaken by service minded students from different educational institutions, qualified social workers and appointed cooperators, under the supervision of the Director of Santhi Bhavan. To provide intensive care, the centre adopts group therapy and observes their psychological changes - both deviations and progress from the abnormal stage, if any.

When God created the world, he dignified it with beauty, providing order and rhythm in nature. Being the crown of His creation we are asked by our Creator to preserve the whole creation including ourselves in its original beauty, order and rhythm.

Keeping this in mind, Santhi Bhavan maintains good order and harmony in daily life and asks the beneficiaries as well as helpers to keep the centre clean and hygienic. Through this the inmates are prompted to give importance to personal cleanliness and hygiene. They are made to believe that cleanliness is next to Godliness. Any creature comes closer to God only when he is clean in mind, body and soul.