Professional Bio
Dr. Tisha Rachel Jacob is a Psychiatrist with experience in Substance Abuse Rehabilitation, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Learning and Behavioural) disorders. She completed her MD in Psychiatry at Dr. Somervell Memorial CSI Medical College. She has seven years of clinical experience and currently working in Psychiatric practice, in Kollam.
Awards & Publications
Dr. Tisha Rachel Jacob has published original articles like Pattern and Correlates of Agitation in an acute psychiatry in-patient Setting in a teaching hospital - In the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2016. Serum magnesium level and severity of delirium in an alcohol withdrawal state - In Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences, February 2019. Research Activities: A cross-sectional study on the Prevalence and correlates of caregiver burden in individuals with Schizophrenia - was accepted as a Dissertation by parent University Paper presentations. Prevalence, Pattern, and Correlates of Agitation among Psychiatry in-patients in a teaching hospital. Annual Conference of the branch of Indian Psychiatric Society SIPSCON 2014. Pattern and correlates of intervention for agitation in Psychiatry in-patients in a tertiary teaching hospital ANCIPS 2016. Training Programmes Attended: 1-month training in Adult Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru. 1-month training in Neurology at the Department of Neurology, St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru. Conferences and CME Attended: Law Psychiatry Interface – Mental Health Centre, Trivandrum (9-3-2014). Cognitive disorders and Dementia, Trivandrum (20-9-2014). Consultation room approach to child psychiatry, Kochi (30-8-2014). Sexual dysfunction – Assessment and Management, Alapuzha (16-2-2014). Psychopathology, Madurai (9-8-2014). Research Methodology- NIMHANS, Bangalore (10-12-2014).