Leadership in Mental Health Course in Goa, India PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 09 November, 2007
LEADERSHIP IN MENTAL HEALTH

A two week course by Sangath and the Schizophrenia Research Foundation in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & the Centre for International Mental Health, University of Melbourne

November 2008 (tentative dates Nov 10-21, 2008) Goa, India

Objectives: To equip participants in the methods to develop and scale up programs and interventions for mental disorders in communities, based on a population model (i.e. to achieve maximum coverage in an administrative unit such as a district). Course structure and Learning outcomes: The course is structured in two parts, and participants will expect to learn the following:

Part 1: Why scale up coverage of effective and affordable care for mental disorders?

1. The public health importance of mental disorders: what is the burden and impact of mental disorders and their relationship with other health conditions such as maternal and child health and heart disease?

2. The social determinants of mental disorders: how are social factors such as poverty, gender inequity and violence associated with the risk for mental disorders?

3. The effective treatments of mental disorders: what is the evidence on drug and psychosocial treatments for specific mental disorders, particularly from developing countries where there are few specialist mental health resources.

 4. The barriers for scaling up effective treatments for mental disorders: what are the major barriers which need to be addressed when scaling up services, for example: stigma, lack of human resources, mental hospitals which institutionalize persons with mental disorders, the lack of mental health leadership etc

Part 2: How to scale up coverage for mental disorders?

1. Developing a district/community mental health plan: what are the various stages in developing a plan, starting from mapping needs and resources in the population, through to developing an information system and monitoring and evaluation.

2. Integrating the management of common mental disorders (depressive and anxiety disorders) and alcohol use disorders in primary care: training will be based on the collaborative stepped care model, currently being implemented in the Manas project in Goa, India, the largest trial of its kind in the developing world.

3. Community based management of serious mental disorders: training will be based on the Ashagram model evaluated in the rural district of Barwani in Madhya Pradesh, India, and will cover the detection and management of psychoses.

4. Management of child mental disorders: training will be based on a community based model to improve the detection of and interventions for developmental disabilities and child mental disorders through pre-school and school systems.

5. Monitoring and evaluation of programs: training will focus on setting benchmarks or targets for mental health programs, and implementing mental health information systems for monitoring and evaluation. 

6. Being a mental health leader: finally, this critical element of the course will consider the skills and strategies to become a mental health leader in your community, focusing on issues such as advocacy to challenge stigma and networking with community stakeholders to make mental health a public good.

Fees and Registration: The course fees (including all materials, but not including lodging and boarding) are: 

  •  Indian residents: Indian Rs 10,000.
  • Residents of other low-income countries (as defined by World Bank); US$500
  • Residents of middle-income countries: US$700 
  •  Residents of high-income countries: US$900

    For further inquiries, please contact Prof Vikram Patel on . For registration, please contact Melba Pinto on .

 
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