Course Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you will be able to:

• Describe burden of mental disorder and explain life course perspective on mental health
• Describe social determinants of mental health
• Define stigma and explain its origins and consequences
• List and describe various diagnostic and assessment tools
• Describe cultural differences in presentation of mental distress
• List treatment options and techniques
• List prevention and promotion options and techniques
• Describe motivation and tools used for care integration
• Describe methods of implementation science and know-do gap in global mental health

Topics/modules

Module 1: Key Issues 

• Global burden of disease 
• Life course: mental health and youth, adults, and geriatrics
• Mental health and sustainable development
• Social determinants
• Violence

Module 2: Stigma

• What is stigma?
• Stigma reduction
• Stigma reduction interventions
• Case study: RESHAPE

Module 3: Diagnostic Categories and Transcultural Presentation of Distress

• Diagnostic criteria & cultural psychiatry
• Mental illness perspectives
• Case Study: Presentations of distress—Bangalore
• Case Study: Presentations of distress—WHO schizophrenia studies

Module 4: Screening and Assessment

• Assessment tools & validation
• Best practices in using and adapting instruments

Module 5: Prevention and Promotion

• Policies 
• Social emotional learning, resilience 

Module 6: Treatment Part 1

• Pharmacologic
• Non-allopathic modalities

Module 7 Treatment Part 2

• Psychosocial
• Trauma/GBV 
• Case study: adapting treatment for Native Americans
• Case study: novel treatment for refugees
• Case study: Cognitive processing therapy in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Module 8: Integrated Care

• Task-sharing
• Case study: collaborative care for depression & diabetes
• Case study: perinatal depression

Module 9: Mental health in humanitarian crises

Module 10: Implementation Science