Namita Ranganathan is a Professor at the Central Institute of Education, Department of Education, University of Delhi. She has been teaching courses in Educational Psychology, Personality Studies, Child and Adolescent Development and Education for Mental Health at the B.Ed, M.Ed, M.Phil and PhD levels since the last twenty five years. She is a Consultant to different National bodies, Voluntary Agencies and Non-Governmental Agencies. She conducts a number of workshops in schools on different dimensions of understanding and knowing children and adolescents, training teachers to be counselors and sensitizing different stakeholder groups to issues related to emotional well being. The spectrum of her published writings include a book, research papers, chapters in books, training modules and action programmes for field implementation.