International Course on Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health
October 16-17 , 2017
The course attracted 65 participants and provided knowledge and lively exchange on topics in cultural psychiatry, trauma, and global mental health drawing on expertise and clinical experiences from Canada, Nepal and Norway. The partners were the 91丝瓜视频 Global Mental Health program, Oslo University (Department of Psychiatry), and Tribhuvan University (Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medicine). A second workshop on developing child mental health services in Nepal was held following the two day conference. Participants included health faculty from psychiatry, psychology, nursing and medicine, community practitioners, representatives of NGOs, and policy makers. In short, the course further built our Global Mental Health training platform and strengthened our research collaborations in the region.
Introduction
Carrying a vision to provide newer knowledge and understanding by bringing together Mental Health Professionals from different parts of the world聽鈥淚nternational Course on Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health 2017鈥� has聽been planned by three leading Universities of the three different continents; 91丝瓜视频, Canada; Institute of Medicine (IOM), Tribhuvan University聽(TU), Nepal and University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. After several years鈥� experience聽of conducting international seminars in collaboration with Norwegian聽Psychiatric Association, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, IOM, TUTH聽is going to expand it further by involving Division of Social & Transcultural聽Psychiatry & Global Mental Health Program, 91丝瓜视频.
Among the several prominent figures as the resource persons, Professor聽Kirmayer and Professor Guzder from 91丝瓜视频 Montreal, Canada, the聽pioneer in this field, will be the major ones.
The course is designed to provide knowledge on cultural psychiatry, trauma and global mental health with experiences from all over the world聽including Canada, Nepal and Norway. This course is on the process of being聽accredited by Nepal Medical Association, Norwegian Medical Association and University of Oslo. Furthermore, young researchers and scientists will also have聽a possibility to make either a poster or a brief oral presentation during the聽course. There will be discussions and social events during the course.
Target participants
Mental health professionals which include; adult and child psychiatrists/ psychologists, nurses, public health workers, sociologists, anthropologists, social聽workers, mental health activists, user organizations, child health workers etc.
