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

Highlights

  • Community mental health covers all the beings existed in the universe

  • The whole concern of the adolescent in this stage is self-centred and all the worries and queries focus on ‘who he is? How things moves on?’ The adolescent way of thinking is rather egocentric and adolescents are quite concerned about their appearance, their impression on others, and their abilities

  • 1.1.REVIEW OF LITERATURE: Mickiewicz et al, (2006) and Schofield & Beak, (2009)postulates that, close relationships with parents can be a protective factor against poor outcomes. the protective relationship is the “secure base function” that parents continue to play in the adolescent years, mothers or caregiver towards adolescent attachment have been described as, availability-helping young people to trust, sensitivity-helping young people to manage feelings and behaviors, acceptancebuilding the self-esteem of the young person; cooperation-helping young people to feel effective; and family membership-helping young people belong

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Introduction

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. How things moves on?’ The adolescent way of thinking is rather egocentric and adolescents are quite concerned about their appearance, their impression on others, and their abilities They tend to feel to be the focus of attention of others. 1.2.SCOPE OF THE STUDY: Sharath Kumar C R,(2017) in his article acclaim that the present scenario of society is characterized as being full of anger, hatred, distrust, disharmony, confrontation and above all degradation of human values At this point of time, the parents of these adolescent kids doing the graduation need to be secured and keep them intact in dealing with all the demands and challenges of the society that poses in the life of the adolescent’s life. There is a dire need to bring stringent changes in the community a differently therapeutic to challenge all the socially immature behavior and emotional illiteracy by introducing freedom of thought expression and autonomy in the society to be in the nest with less restriction and least disparities analysed and conclusion were drawn out systematically through statistics

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