Dr. Vandana Prakash

Doctor’s Profile

Dr Vandana Prakash is a Senior Consultant with 25 years of experience. She has done her M.Phil in Medical and Social Psychology from National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, (NIMHANS) Bangalore.  Her Ph.D. is on “Stress, Perceived Control and Coping Behaviour of Adjusted and Maladjusted Adolescents”. She has contributed 7 chapters on adolescent suicide to various international publications. She has co-authored a book entitled “Conquering Pain: How to Prevent it, Treat it and Lead a better life” (2019). Her interest areas are depression, anxiety disorders like panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, dissociative and conversion disorders, somatoform disorders in adults. Emotionally disturbed children, conduct disorder and children with learning disability are of special interest to her. She has expertise in psycho diagnostics and assessments related to neuropsychological disorders like dementia etc, learning disability and childhood-related disorders. She is a trained psychotherapist for both adults and children.