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The term psychological disorder is sometimes used to refer to what is more frequently known as mental disorders or psychiatric disorders. Mental disorders are patterns of behavioural or psychological symptoms that impact multiple areas of life. These disorders create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms. These disorders create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms, it affects his perceptions, mood or behaviour, The relationship between stress and mental illness is complex but is also known that stress and mental illness is complex but it is known that stress can worsen an episode of mental illness. There are many types of psychological disorders which include neurodevelopmental disorders, bipolar and related disorders, anxiety disorders, stress related disorders which include post traumatic disorders, Dissociative disorders, Somatic symptom disorders, Eating disorders, Sleep disorders, Disruptive disorders, Depressive disorders, Substance related disorders, Neurocognitive disorders, Schizophrenia, Personality disorders and Obsessive compulsive disorder. However it highlights the use of various intervention techniques like insight therapy, crisis intervention, supportive therapy, counselling and cognitive behaviour modification therapy in handling different types of patients by psychiatric social workers. It also emphasises the need for modification in the syllabus used for the training of the psychiatric social workers as well as the need for scientific research to evaluate the applicability and efficacy of these techniques these psychological disorders can be cured by counselling, therapy sessions, prescribed medications, yoga, meditation and behavioural and cognitive treatment approaches, Hence these different types of psychological disorders are going to be explained in the following paragraphs where all the techniques of social work, viz. social case work, social group work and community organisation are used and not just social case work in an isolated way. When social case work technique is utilized, it is mainly by keeping three stages in mind - social study, social diagnosis and social treatment.