Short-Term Course in Mental Health

Short-Term Course in Mental Health

Short-Term Course in Mental Health
The Chennai based Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM), in asssociation with University College London (UCL), will offer a short term course 'Mental Health at the margins' between February 11 and 14, 2008. The course is aimed at enabling trainee participants to understand and better appreciate issues pertaining to debt, poverty, violence, stigma, power relations and how these can be translated on the gound, where actions to overcome these problems can impact most usefully and significantly. The focus would be on local problems and local solutions.

The course is targeted at Mental Health Professionals (social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses) from NGOs and government health institutions, working with marginal and displaced populations in south Asia. The course will also benefit professionals from backgrounds such as rights activits, law enforcement officials, judiciary and donor organisations.

The course aims to address the stated objectivies thorugh a variety of techniques over a three and half day period. It will include an overview of the field, challenges and differing solutions. Participants will, through interactive study, learn to generate ideas, and then apply these new understandings within a safe teaching setting. Within a package comprising theretical study and experiential focus group learning, trainee participants will gain a fuller critical awareness and applied undersandin gof the pertinent issues.

A UCL-BALM certificate of participation will be issued to participants