| Description |
This course comprises of an intercultural perspective of mental health on a global scale to expand our knowledge on universal and equitable mental health care worldwide. Global mental health is a new field of public health research and in this course, we will learn about the research and practices that propose the expansion of mental health care to all populations on the planet, leaving no one behind. We will also talk about culture in this course as it also places an important role in mental health issues as in the field of psychology. To sum up, in this course, we will understand the concept of “global mental health” and address some key road-blocks to global efforts to “improve access to mental health care for people” with mental health issues and we will also talk about the new evidence from “low-resource settings” that is showing that how training the non-specialists/professionals to deliver treatments for mental health can make us achieve the goal of “mental health for all: leaving no one behind.” This course will include speakers from different parts of the world that are working in the area of global mental health, and they will share with us about the mental health programs and approaches they use in their countries. By the end of the course, you will be given certain themes to choose to work on. The idea of this colloquium is for you to understand mental health problems faced by the people in different cultural contexts and what are the different practices that are working to improve the access to mental health care for people with mental health problems. |