Community-Based Mental Health Interventions
McGill University's Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry presents:
Community-Based Mental Health Interventions: Critical Perspectives and Innovative Approaches
The course brings together international expert scholars on community mental health program implementation and research.
Course Facilitators
Dr. Nicole D'souza, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital/ McGill University
Dr. Jaswant Guzder, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Please find attached the course flyer and registration for the event, with a clickable registration link.
Registration is LIMITED, so participants are encouraged to register in advance to secure a place. Participants can also register HERE!
Description
In this course participants will identify and assess collaborative and decolonizing approaches to community-based mental health and psychosocial interventions. We will engage with organizations and individuals working on the ground to deliver mental health and psychosocial programming. Topics to be covered include engaging community stakeholders in program implementation; co-designing interventions with community partners; unpacking issues of power, position and ethics; culturally adapting program material for community fit; utilizing training models in program delivery and scale-up; and building program sustainability. The seminars in this course will be taught by community experts, using case examples from mental health preventative and intervention programs delivered globally.
Who should register?
This course is directed to an advanced group of participants from varied backgrounds in global health, mental health, public health, and social sciences. It assumes that participants have some background in public health training or mental health training (equivalent to at least one undergraduate course) and/or lived experience in working in communities to deliver mental health programming.
