Dahunlyne Shylla

Lecturer

B.A. (Lady Keane College, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong);
Diploma(Adult &Continuing Education) (North Eastern Hill University, Shillong);
M.S.W. (MPSW) (Mangalore University);
M.PhiL. & Ph.D. in Psychiatric Social Work (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru)

Dr. Dahunlyne Shylla is a Lecturer at the Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences (JIBS). She completed her Ph.D. in Psychiatric Social Work. Her worked concentrate on developing a programme on prevention of Bullying in school and testing the feasibility of the programme with teachers’ population. She provides range of individual care and family intervention and have actively worked with various population in need of Psychiatric and mental health services. Her main areas are working with Children and Adolescents (Children in need of care and protection, Children in conflict with law, parenting , school mental health programme and services etc) Substance use and behavioural addiction .Other areas of her interest include  Community Mental health  (Migration and mental health , Suicide prevention, psychosocial care in disaster management) she also involved in numerous consultation meetings with regards to project implementation and curriculum development. Dr. Shylla also involved in numerous training activities for Government and Non-governmental agencies.

She is awarded UGC -Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow (UGC-JRF) in 2014. Hence overall, she is a clinician, a trainer and a researcher.

Research Experience

Dr. Shylla, initial research experiences is working in a project in assessing the implementation NREGS in the States of Meghalaya funded by UNDP.  As Ph.D. Scholar Dr Shylla has gain ample knowledge of research experiences as it involved numerous phases of study, as her worked emphasis on development of school-based programme on Bullying for Teachers and Non- Teaching Staff. During the process of her Ph.D.  she also had worked in adaptation of a teachers reporting attitude scale on child sexual abuse into the context of bullying in the Indian population. She also had contributed in the study on specialized child mental health service for children in difficult circumstances at a tertiary care centre in India, Dept of child and adolescent psychiatry, NIMHANS.   Her experiences also were working on the area of migration by focusing on Stigma and discrimination among North eastern people in mainland India during COVID Pandemic 2020- 2021 and also has done research on psycho social issues face by North East Migrants. Dr. Shylla also have been working on the Exploration of Mental Health and Well-being Glossary Terms and Translating into the Khasi Indigenous Language which a project Funded by the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council. Meghalaya.

Teaching Experiences

As part of the clinical activities as a Ph.D. Scholar and Junior Consultant ,Dr Shylla involved in numerous teaching activities involving trainees from Psychiatry, Psychiatric Social work , Clinical psychology, M.Sc. psychiatric nursing and background interns from masters of social work.  She also used to take up teaching activities for B.Sc. Nursing students. She also involved in regular clinical supervision with MPhil trainees . While working as an Assistant professor at Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong. Dr.Shylla taught undergraduate and postgraduate students from social work and psychology background. few subjects to name, include community health, social case work, social group work, psychiatric social work intervention, Substance use, couple and marital therapy etc. She is also a been associated as a resource person at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Shillong in helping students in understanding mental health and wellbeing from a public mental health perspective

Research Interest

Child and Adolescents mental health and wellbeing (Children in difficult circumstances, School system and mental health, parenting, life skills, social and emotional learning, classroom approach, student-teacher relationship); Child abuse and neglect; Migration and mental health; Substance use and adolescents, Behavioural addiction.

Dr Shylla her interest is also in looking into various Evidence based programmes and how it have an impact and influence into the mental well-being of the school community and the community at large. She is also passionate into developing programmes to facilitate wellbeing catering to various target groups in the community and study its effectiveness or feasibility in the implementation of the programme.

Publications

  1. An article titled “School Management -Addressing Bullying in School” (Teachers’ Plus Magazine) published in November 2021 edition
  2. Article titled “Prevention of bullying in school: An emerging area in the school social work” published in the Journal of Social Work Education and Practice, Volume 5; Issue 4, 01/10/2020
  3. Book Chapter Title “Addressing Stigma during COVID-19” published in a Manual: Title “Psycho Social Intervention During COVID-19 Pandemic”. ISBN number: 978-81-951544-87
  4. Article titled “Data Analytics of Psychological Distress and Coping among Fresh Migrants from North Eastern Region to Bengaluru City” accepted to be published in a Book Title: Big Data Analytics in Cognitive Social Media and Literary texts, Springer Publication 2020
  5. KM Rajendra, Kavita V Jangam, Priyanka P. Nambiar, Aasim Ur Rehman, Dahunlyne Shylla, Sheila Ramaswamy, Shekhar P. Seshadri, Swatantra Clinic: A descriptive study on the specialized child mental health service for children in difficult circumstances at a tertiary care center in India, AsianJournalofPsychiatry,2021,102864,ISSN1876-2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.10286