Capacity Building
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Capacity building and training in global mental health and public mental health
The optimal approach to building capacity in mental health care around the world will require partnerships between professional resources and promising health-related institutions. These partnerships need to be sustainable, develop quality in clinical care and research, and build a productive environment for professionals to advance their knowledge and skills. Digital technology has an increasingly important role in delivery of appropriate training to mental health and other professionals including about policy development and public mental health.
Proposed activities include:
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Organization of educational programmes promoting “no health without mental health”
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Planning specific activities focussing on CME programmes on different topics of clinical & academic interests
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Planning teaching sessions for medical students, GPs and other health care workers including digitally based
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Promoting and developing e Mental Health services and including this topic in training programmes for mental health professionals
Examples of work
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Special Communication: The interface of psychiatry and COVID-19: Challenges for management of psychiatric patients
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Asian Journal of Psychiatry: Psychological interventions during COVID-19: Challenges for low and middle income countries
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Asian Journal of Psychiatry: Revisiting ‘The Plague’ by Camus: Shaping the ‘social absurdity’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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BJPsych International: Critical Issues for COVID positive psychiatric patients in low- and middle-income countries
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Khyber Medical Journal: Coping With COVID-19: Urgent Need For Building Resilience Through Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
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DH e-Learning for Healthcare: Public mental health e-Learning Programme
Medical Students
Working Groups
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Early Interventions in Mental Health
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Promoting Evidence-based Psychopharmacotherapy
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COVID Care for People with Mental Illness
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Developing Partnerships with Service Users and Family Carers
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