Overview
Dr. Adawadkar has a Masters in Clinical Psychology and started her career working with ‘The Child and Adolescent Guidance Centre’ dealing with various behavioural, emotional, and academic issues. She further moved on to taking projects such as psychometric assessments, neuropsychological assessments, and intelligence and personality testing for screening purposes which would then be followed by the appropriate need-based interventions. In 2010, she joined Parivartan Trust as a counsellor’ and grew to become the ‘Programme Manager for three different Mental Health projects, which were implemented in seven states of India. During this period, Dr. Jai Adawadkar was instrumental in developing the assessment tools, delivering intervention packages and piloting them for people with mental health problems. She also presented a poster at the International Conference on Schizophrenia (ICONS) based on her work. She has also done counselling and training for children and parents in IB schools and children’s therapy centres.
