Head – Training
Email Address: gracy.a@iiphh.org
Qualifications:
MA, Clinical Psychology Diploma in Online Counselling and Therapy (Registered at ACTO, UK)
Gracy Andrew, A Clinical Psychologist by training comes with 25+ years of experience in the area of youth health. From 2012-2022 Gracy served as WorldBeing India’s Vice President and Country Director in India, playing a key role in launching, expanding, and supervising WorldBeing’s programs on Emotional Resilience and research efforts in India and Kenya. Before joining WorldBeing in 2012, Gracy was with Sangath Society, a renowned leader in the field of mental health since its inception in 1996.
At Sangath she worked in various capacities including as program head of the adolescent program for several years and as Executive Director for two years. An experienced qualitative researcher, Gracy has worked as a consultant to many organizations. She is co-author of several publications in India and globally.
She also has been involved in developing various interventions and training programs for youth in the areas of mental health and adolescent health. Gracy has contributed to training resources at the national level in India including the RKSK, and Ayushnan Bharath program. In 2019 she was appointed as a member of the World Health Organization’s guidance development group for promotional programs on global adolescent mental health. More recently in 2023, she was commissioned to support development of an integrated school health program at the MoHFW.
Mental Health, Training, Qualitative research.
Mental Health, Adolescent & Youth Health , Qualitative Research, Training development.
Andrew, G., Leventhal, K., Demaria, L., Toussaint, L.L., Tiwari, A. and Leventhal, S. The Self- Help Group Resilience Project: Developing and Piloting a Resilience Intervention in Bihar, India. Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice, 31(2), pp.40-60 (2022).
Sachs, L.K., Andrew, G., Collins C S., DeMaria L., Shanker H. and Leventhal S. Training School Teachers to Promote Mental and Social Well-Being in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Lessons to facilitate scale-up from a Participatory Action Research Trial of Youth First in India. International journal of Emotional Education, Special Issue Volume 10, Number 2, (2018).
Andrew, G., Sachs, K. and Leventhal, S. Resilience-Based Approaches to Life Skills Education among Youth in India: Results of Three Program Trials. Paper submitted to the International Conference on Life Skills Education, Guwahati, Assam, India (2016).
Leventhal, K., DeMaria, L., Gillham, J., Andrew, G., et al. A Psychosocial Resilience Curriculum Provides the “Missing Piece” to Boost Adolescent Physical Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Girls First in India. Social Science & Medicine 161 (2016) 37-46.
Leventhal, K., Gillham, J., DeMaria, L., Andrew, G., et al. Building Psychosocial Assets and Wellbeing Among Adolescent Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Adolescence, 45 (2015) 284-295.
Sachs, K., Andrew, G., Leventhal, S., Gillham, J. and Vélez, C. Risk and Protective Factors for Adjustment Problems Among Adolescent Girls in India. Paper Presented at Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, Reno, NV (2013).
Shinde, S., Andrew, G., et al. The Impact of a Lay Counsellor Led Collaborative Care Intervention for Common Mental Disorders in Public and Private Primary Care: A Qualitative Evaluation Nested in the MANAS Trial in Goa, India, Social Science and Medicine 88 (2013), 48-55.
Pereira, B., Andrew, G., Pednekar, S., Pai, R., Pelto, P. & Patel, V. The Explanatory Models of Depression in Low Income Countries: Listening to Women in India. Journal of Affective Disorders, 102, 209- 218 (2012).
Andrew, G., Cohen, A., et al. The Explanatory Models of Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study in India, BMC Research Notes (2012).
Balaji, M., Andrews, T., Andrew, G., Patel, V. Acceptability, Feasibility, and Effectiveness of a Population-based Intervention to Promote Youth Health: An Exploratory Study in Goa, India, Journal of Adolescent Health 48 (2011) 453–460.
Hunt, J., Andrew, G., Weitz P. Improving Support for Bereaved People Within Their Communities: Updating the Nine-Cell Bereavement Tool. Bereavement Care, 26, No2, 26 – 29 (2009).
Patel, V., Andrew, G., and Pelto, P. The Psychological and Social Contexts of The Complaint of Abnormal Vaginal Discharge: A Study of Illness Narratives in India. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64, 255-62 (2008).
Pillai, A., Patel V., Cardozo, P., Goodman, R., Weiss, H., and Andrew, G. Non-Traditional Lifestyles and the Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Young Adolescents in a Community in India. British Journal of Psychiatry, 192, 45-51 (2008).
Patel, V., Andrew, G., et al. The Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness of Antidepressant and Psychological Treatments for Common Mental Disorders in General Health Care of Goa, India. Lancet, 361, 33-39 (2003).
Andrew, G., Patel, V., Ramakrishna, J. Sex, Studies or Strife? What to Integrate in Adolescent Health Services. Reproductive Health Matters, 21, 120 – 129 (2003).
Patel, V., Andrew, G. Gender, Sexual Abuse and Risk Behaviours: A Survey of School Based Adolescents in Goa. National Medical Journal of India, 14, 263-7 (2001).
Andrew G & Hunt Jenny. “Glimpses….The Tsunami Affected Areas in Tamil Nadu - A preliminary report on a needs assessment study conducted in Tamil Nadu” ; (2005)
Andrew G & Patel V. “Health Needs of Adolescents: A Study from Goa” (2002)
Fiona Dias Saxena, Gracy Andrew, “Barefoot Counselling – A Manual for Community Workers” (2002), published by Nirmaan (Program on Sustainable Intervention in Family Violence) with support from the John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
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