INDIAN ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISORS  is an Association of accomplished mental health professionals who have established this organization with the laudable objective of evolving standards and enhancing competencies in professional supervision. These qualified professionals bring in a wealth of knowledge and experience to give the necessary impetus to the establishment of processes and practices for professional supervision in India. They also have plans to collaborate with other leading organizations with similar goals in the region that would embellish their experience and give tools that are not only contemporary but also practical for the community needing supervision in India.

In India, mental health, as a profession, has received attention and focus it deserves during the last decade. This is corroborated by the fact that there are a number of qualified counsellors, who are supporting the general public in their mental health and well-being. The acceptance of therapeutic counselling by the public as a legitimate intervention to alleviate their suffering has borne fruits over the years. The stigma that used to be attached to visits to such mental health professionals is also slowly fading away from public consciousness and has come to be accepted as a normal way of treating mental health related issues. While this is a welcome trend, this has also thrown up its own challenges as with any emerging field. The number of counsellors is on the rise. The profession is devoid of regulations and as a result professionalism is diluted. These factors may, perhaps, result in an unstructured growth leading to deficiency of services to the public Read More