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Deputy Director I/c and Professor of Social work, APCA (View Profile)
Prof. Dr. Beulah Emmanuel is currently Deputy Director (FAC), APCA & Professor of Social work and was a Project Director, for a research project for BPR&D-APCA, Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi and a Consultant for training manuals and other committees to Bureau of Police Research & Development, Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi. Madam has authored a book on “Supportive Psychotherapy with Case studies”, “Handling Radicalisation in Prisons” & “Crime, Corrections & Case work”. Madam is a honorary consultant for PRISM (PATTAM, PARAVAI & PAATHAI programmes announced by the Honourable Chief Minister of Tamilnadu).
Madam is an honorary Ethics Committee Member & Reviewer for the Institutional Review Board (Research committee) of Christian Medical College, Vellore.
Madam is a graduate in English and holds University first Rank, and a post graduate in social work specialized in Medical and psychiatric social work and is awarded Doctorate in Social work & Criminology for her exploratory Research work on The Mental health Problems of convicted Women Prisoners in India by the University of Madras from the Department of Criminology, University of Madras.
She contributed to national prison policy by drafting the Mental Health Care in Prisons chapter of the Model Prison Manual 2024 and participating in the Model Prison Act Review Committee. She developed training manuals for prison officers, probation officers, welfare officers, de-radicalisation programmes, inmate skill development, and basic prison officer training. She also designed specialised training modules on the Nelson Mandela Rules, Bangkok Rules, prisoner mental health, crisis management, rehabilitation, prison technology, and correctional leadership. Her research included studies on prisoner stress, psychiatric morbidity, women prisoners, Borstal inmates, and correctional social work, in collaboration with institutions such as BPRD, MHA, VIT and ICSSR.
Her areas of interest include Prisons, Corrections, Young Offenders, Women Prisoners and Mental Health. Madam holds a PG certificate in Mental Health from The Christian Medical College, Vellore. Madam was an International Trainer training the Global Women Leaders and trained by the Mid pacific centre, USA.