Psychosocial Perspectives on Child Mental Health in Custody Disputes: A Qualitative Study from Urban Bengaluru.

Background: Divorce has become a common contemporary phenomenon in India. In this context, the child is pulled into the vortex of parental disputes over the child's custody. The spiteful and protracted nature of these legal cases adversely affects the child's mental health.

Family support and well-being programme (FSWP): A specialized family strengthening psychosocial services for parents of children in conflict with law.

Background: A multidimensional family support and well-being programme (FSWP) was initiated to support the families of children in conflict with law (CICL) and strengthen their participation in the integration process. This programme aims to successfully reintegrate children into the family and build parental capacity to manage them. This study presents the overview of the multidimensional FSWP initiated in an observation home, facility for CICLs, Bengaluru, a metropolitan city of India.

Predictors of behavioral and emotional issues in children involved in custody disputes: A cross sectional study in urban Bengaluru.

Background: The increasing rates of divorce in urban India has led to the subsequent parental battle for the child's custody. This paper discusses the behavioral and emotional issues of these children in relation to their psychosocial environmental factors and other relevant socio-demographic variables.

Methods: We used samples from parent interviews concerning 52 children aged 7-17-years-old, involved in child custody cases in the Family court of urban Bengaluru.

Swatantra Clinic: A descriptive study on the specialized child mental health service for children in difficult circumstances at a tertiary care center in India.

In India, children in difficult circumstances, like institutionalized children have higher mental health morbidity and complex psychosocial concerns than the non-institutionalized children. To cater to the complex needs of these children referred by the Juvenile Justice System, a specialized service called 'Swatantra Clinic' was initiated by the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India. This article thereby aims to describe the psychosocial characteristics of these children, along with the array of specialized interventions provided during the first year of its inception in June 2018.