Dr. Manju Mehta
Dr. Manju Mehta is a professor and consultant to Holy Family Hospital; she was formerly head of the Child and Adolescent Clinic, Department of Psychiatry at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). She brings 40 years of experience in clinical work, teaching and research, as well as expertise in psychological assessment and the management of a variety of psychological disorders in children, adolescents and adults.
Dr. Mehta has served as adjunct faculty at the Centre of Medical Education Technology, AIIMS, an examiner for courses at various universities, and a member of selection and screening committees for several prestigious institutes and organizations. She is a consultant to the Delhi Public School Society.
Dr. Mehta also served as president of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychology, the Indian Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the Indian Society for Pain Research and Therapy. She was a member of the planning and monitoring committee at the National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore and an advisory committee member at the Central University of Hyderabad & Patna and the Centre for Cognitive Sciences, Allahabad University.
Dr. Mehta has designed and standardized a range of psychological tests including a psychoticism questionnaire, a stressful life events scale, a coping strategy scale, a daily hassles scale and a test for the physical manifestation of stress.
She has developed course curricula in the fields of clinical psychology, counselling psychology, family therapy and behavioral sciences for universities such as Tribhuvan Teaching University – Kathmandu (Nepal); B.P. Koirala Institute – Dharan (Nepal); Central University – Patna; Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Mumbai; and Indira Gandhi National Open University – Delhi.
Dr. Mehta has won multiple awards, including the Govindaswamy Memorial Gold Medal for Distinction in DM & SP, NIMHANS, Bangalore; the Kang Oration award for recognition of contribution to the field of Clinical Psychology; a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Conference on Multi-Disciplinary Healthcare at AIIMS; and Best Clinical Psychologist Award by Delhi Association of Clinical Psychologists.
Dr. Mehta earned a master’s degree in psychology at Kanpur University, DM & SP (formerly a master’s in philosophy) from NIMHANS, Bangalore, and a PhD from PGIMER, Chandigarh. She also received training in rational emotive behavior therapy from the Albert Ellis Institute, New York, USA and in medical educational technology from Dundee, UK.