Psychology is one of the vital disciplines in the field of Rehabilitation and is being declared as a Rehabilitation Profession under the RCI Act 1992. The post of Psychologist was created in 1999 under Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Surgery (DRMS) and it is declared as an independent department in 2012 to provide better and independent patient service and academic activities.
The Department of Psychology has three major activities i.e., Academic activities, clinical activities and Research activities. Academic activities include teaching in Psychology as compulsory subject for three long-term courses i.e. PT, OT and P & O and several short-term programmes. Clinical activities include the early identification, assessment, planning, providing psychological services and counselling. Clinical activities include the early identification, assessment and planning and providing psychological services and counselling and constant Research Activities with various types of inpatients and outpatients attending the Institute.