The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Fatima Jinnah Medical University is committed to the trilateral mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating the future leaders in the field. Psychiatric and behavioral health disorders range from potentially life-threatening disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe depression, to less debilitating but common conditions, such as anxiety and less severe mood disorders. These conditions take a toll not only on sufferers themselves, but also on families, caregivers, and society as a whole. Prevention, treatment, management, and rehabilitation of these conditions are central to comprehensive health care.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has played a significant role not only in the provision of psychiatric services for patients but also in providing training facilities to medical professionals. Psychiatrists evaluate, diagnose, treat and prevent illnesses that interfere with emotional and behavioral health. Psychological services include assessments, psychological evaluation and psychotherapy.

Services provided by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences include:

1. Outdoor services
   Six days a week; on average 400–500 psychiatric patients are seen weekly.
2. Indoor services
   On average 15–18 patients are admitted weekly.
3. Drug and rehabilitation programs
   Indoor services for detoxification of drug addicts, outpatient management of drug and substance abuse, and counseling services for motivation and rehabilitation.
4. Forensic psychiatry service
   Medico-legal assessment of patients referred through courts or authorities.
5. Liaison services
   Liaison services to various departments such as Medicine, Surgery, Neurosurgery, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Orthopedics and ICU within the hospital, and to other hospitals in Punjab.
6. Child psychiatry
   Outdoor and indoor services for ADHD, autism, learning disability, tics, anxiety, conduct disorders, epilepsy, and all other aspects of behavioural and psychiatric issues.
7. Counseling services
   A clinical psychologist is available. Internship program for students of psychology from various institutes.
8. Student counseling services
   Faculty members and senior psychologists are available for medical students of FJMU and students from other institutions, six days a week on a turn basis.

Training of postgraduate trainees through lectures, case presentations, case conferences and CPC. Rotation of postgraduate trainees to various other specialities as per training requirements.

Teaching of Behavioural Sciences to 3rd-year MBBS students through lectures in the lecture theatre and small-group discussions, 5 days a week for 2 hours.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences strives to provide the highest level of clinical care to all patients, create new knowledge and translate these discoveries from literature to bedside, and educate the future generations who will carry on this work.

The Department is involved at all levels in carrying this mission into the larger national community. The Department takes seriously its role as a spokesperson for the profession and in publicizing the importance of behavioral health for the nation’s well-being and stigma reduction. The Chair and Department faculty have played a national role in psychiatric and behavioral health forums (e.g., focusing on depression, schizophrenia, alcohol and drug addictions, tobacco use, obesity, eating disorders, and patient advocacy, among others). As part of this mission, the Department maintains active, leading programs in each of these areas.

Growing research on the etiology of psychiatric illness and the increasing number of treatments available to patients is at last beginning to lift the stigma of mental illness and offering hope to those who suffer from it. These developments are increasing the likelihood of expanded funding for clinical care, research, and philanthropy.

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