Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Juvva Srilatha

Professor
Mumbai Campus, Centre for Equity and Justice for Children and Families, School of Social Work - Mumbai Campus

Qualification

M.A. (Madras), M.Phil. (Bangalore), Ph.D. (NIMHANS)

Contact

juvvas[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

juvvas@tiss.ac.in

Srilatha Juvva has a Masters in Social Work from Stella Maris College, Chennai and a Ph.D. in Psychiatric Social Work from NIMHANS. She is currently Professor with the Centre for Equity and Justice for Children and Families, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.

She cares deeply about manifesting full potential and fairness in self and others. She served on the Board of NGOs, Institute ethics committees and on the academic board of studies in universities. She has nominated on a few government committees for her work on disability. She was awarded the Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in 2006-2007.

Her areas of expertise include mental health, disability, disaster mental health, and therapeutic interventions with individuals and families. She has directed many research projects and has published in peer reviewed national and international journals and in books.She has also co-edited 3 books – Spirituality, Culture and Development: Implications for Social Work (2016); Field Instruction in Social Work Education: The Indian Experience (2019); and The Contemporary Indian Family: Transitions and Diversity (2020). She has also co-edited 2 special issues of the Indian Journal of Social Work - Family Transitions and Emerging Forms (2017); and Diversity in Families and Interventions in India (2022).

She has also been an enthusiastic volunteer in disaster situations, with expertise in rendering services and building capacity in psychosocial care. She is trained practitioner coach in Radical Transformational Leadership and uses these transformative templates and tools in her everyday practice, both in her personal and professional life.

Disability

Mental Health

Disaster Mental Health

Social Protection

Recent Publications:
Sinha, R and Juvva, S. (Jan 2024). Walking the Talk: Accentuating the Embeddedness of SDGs in Social Work Practice. Social Dialogue (28), 56-61.

Ramamurthy, C. and Juvva, S (2023). Integrating Grief Counseling in Responses to Disasters and Epidemics. Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry. | DOI: 10.4103/ijsp.ijsp_78_22

R. Sinha, S. Juvva and V. V. Nadkarni (2023). Social work and sustainable development goals: An Indian perspective. In David Androff and Janianton Damanik Eds The Routledge International Handbook of Social Development, Social Work, and the Sustainable Development Goals. 1st edition, 379 -

Mahima Nayar and S. Juvva (2023). Disabled Lives and Synergistic Interventions. In Anju Sosan George (ed) Discourses on Disability, pp 6-22. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Kulhalli VB, Juvva S, Mukherjee, A., Dhakre, B., Jethwani, J. R., & Ramamurthy, C. (2023). Suicide Prevention Policy in India: Reflections by Mental Health Professionals. Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum, 2(2), 105-108.

Pillai RR, Juvva S, Tom J, Sobhana H, Elangovan AR. (2022). RCI or NCAHCP? Dilemmas About the Recognition of Psychiatric Social Work Professionals. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine May: 44(3):297-301. doi: 10.1177/02537176221091694. Epub 2022 May 8. PMID: 35656424; PMCID: PMC9125473.

Jagannathan, S. Juvva and P.T. Thomas (2022). Palliative Care: An Indian Perspective. In Terry Altilio, Shirley Otis-Green, and John G. Cagle (eds), The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, 2 edn. Oxford University Press: New York. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197537855.002.0003

S. Juvva, M. Nayar and M. Nagchoudhuri (2022). Special Issue on Diversity in Families and Interventions in India. The Indian Journal of Social Work 83 (4).

Juvva, S., Nayar, M. and Sinha, R. (2022). Living in the Margins: Disability and the Pandemic. Habitus Journal of Sociology, 3(3), 43-56. Accessed from https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/habitus/issue/69096/1075147

M. Nayar, S. Juvva, C. Lakshman (2021). Psychosocial Consequences of COVID-19 on Persons with Visual Impairments. Disability & the Global South, 8(1), 1958-1971.

R. Sinha and S. Juvva (2020). Social Work Praxis in Social Policy: Reflections from India. The British Journal of Social Work 50 (8), 2319-2334. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa189

S. Juvva (2020). Build it and they will come: Transforming Mental Health and Fostering Full Potential. The Indian Journal of Social Work, 81(2), 145-156.

B. Devi Prasad, S. Juvva, M. Nayar (2020). The Contemporary Indian Family: Transitions and Diversity. 1st edition. Routledge: New Delhi. ISBN 978-0-367-74885-2

Joshi, M. and S. Juvva (2020). Living with Autism and Together. Disability and Impairments 34 (2), 1780-186.
Nair, R., Juvva, S. and Nadkarni, V.V. (2019). Field Instruction in Social Work Education: The Indian Experience. 1st edition. Routledge: New Delhi

B. Devi Prasad and S. Juvva (2020). Families of the Future: Some Reflections. In B. Devi Prasad, S. Juvva, M. Nayar (Eds.) The Contemporary Indian Family: Transitions and Diversity. 1st edition. Routledge: New Delhi.

M. Nayar and S. Juvva (2020). Introduction. In B. Devi Prasad, S. Juvva, M. Nayar (Eds.). The Contemporary Indian Family: Transitions and Diversity. 1st edition. Routledge: New Delhi. ISBN 978-0-367-74885-2

S. Juvva (2020). Disability Social Work Education: Emerging Trajectory in India. In: N. Mehrotra (Eds.) Disability Studies in India. Springer, Singapore ISBN 978-981-15-2615-2

S. Juvva, Bidaye, K. and Nayar, M. (2020). Between and Betwixt: Experiences of being young, trans and disabled in India. In A. Toft and A. Franklin (Eds.) Young, Disabled and LGBT+: Voices, Identities and Intersections. Routledge Research in Gender and Society. Routledge: Oxon.

Nadkarni, V.V., Juvva, S. and Nair, R. (2019). Introduction: Changing Nature of Fieldwork. In R. Nair, S. Juvva and V.V. Nadkarni, (Eds.) Field Instruction in Social Work Education: The Indian Experience. 1st edition. Routledge: New Delhi.

S. Juvva, Nadkarni, V.V., and Nair, R. (2019). Issues for the Future of Field Instruction in Social Work Education. In R. Nair, S. Juvva and V.V. Nadkarni, (Eds.). Field Instruction in Social Work Education: The Indian Experience. 1st edition. Routledge: New Delhi.

She is actively associated with a community mental health service project in Cheeta Camp since the past 8 years.

Recent Research Projects:

Exploring living and work experiences of persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Sristi Village: A Participatory Research

Increasing vulnerability? The toll of COVID-19 on mental health of people with disabilities and mental illness residing in an urban slum in Mumbai, India in collaboration with Brown School, Washington University at St. Louis

Developing Social Protection Policy of Chhattisgarh

Information @ One Click to make available dynamic geotagged data related to disability services in NCR, Delhi

Issues of Policy and Scheme Coherence for Children with Disabilities and the Right to Education Act.

Teaching experience of Foundational CBCS, Foundation Courses, Core Social Work Courses, Research Courses and Thematic courses in the fields of mental health, disability, counselling and family interventions within School of Social Work, School of Human Ecology, School of Disaster Studies, School of Managament and Labour Studies.

CBCS: Secular Ethics

Foundation Course: Mental Health

Core Social Work Courses: Social Work with Groups, Human Growth and Behaviour, Qualitiatve Research

Working with Families: Skills and Interventions; Action and Advocacy for Children and Families; Family in India

Mental Health: Community Mental Health, Therapeutic Interventions

Counselling and Psychotherapy; Ethics in Counselling

Social Work Processes with Individuals, groups and Families; Community based Rehabilitation; Counselling in Disability Contexts 1 & 2; Community Interventions in Rural Contexts

Psychosocial Care in Disaster Situations