Participants
(Max. 25)
Participants
may be from the professional, governmental or the development
sector. They may be health or mental health professionals,
health care providers, policy developers, program managers,
researchers, community organizers or human rights professionals.
They would have an interest and aptitude for studying the
subject areas. They would have experience in health / RH,
service delivery, human rights advocacy or other development
work. They, or the organisations they represent, would
have a keen interest to develop capacity and run community
programs or human rights and policy advocacy campaigns
in the area of mental health.
Course
Outline
Day,
1, 2: Module I - Concepts in Gender / Mental Health
This
module, of three sessions, will orient participants to concepts
in gender and mental health, and develop linkages between health
and mental health. Evidence base relevant to gender and mental
health will be discussed.
Days
3-6: Module 2 - Reproductive Health and Mental Health
This
module, of seven sessions, will introduce concerns in the growing
field of gender and reproductive health.
Session
I - Perspective on Gender and Reproductive Health
Session
II, III - Evidence Base - Reproductive Health and Mental
Health
Session
IV - Gynecological Morbidity, Post Natal Depression and
Mental Health
Session
V - Sexuality and Mental Health
Session
V - Violence against women and mental health
Day
7-9: Module 3 - Education, Policy and Advocacy in Mental
Health
This
module, of five sessions, will address critical concerns in
production of research and education materials in mental health.
It will introduce policy and service delivery issues in mental
health. Participants will develop insight into creating mental
health friendly working teams and organizations.
Session
I, II - A Critical Approach to Information in Mental
Health
Session
III, IV - Mental Health Policy
Session
V, VI - Mental health within organisations
Days
10, 11, 12- Ethics, Law and Mental Health
This
module, of six sessions, will address the ethical, legal and
human rights concerns in mental health
Session
I, I I- Value clarifications in the mental health
sector
Session
III, IV - Law and mental health
Session
V, VI - Mental health and Women's Health- Strategies
for integration
Methods
The two week course is an intensive academic study program. Teaching
methods used are lectures, seminars, work assignments and
workgroups. Comprehensive reading materials and handouts
will be provided to all the participants. The language of
instruction will be English.
Fees
No registration fee is being charged for the course. However,
a course development fee of Rs. 800/= is being charged to
cover the cost of the exhaustive course materials being provided.
Clean and comfortable, but modest, local hospitality will
be provided on a twin-sharing basis. If single room accommodation
is being sought, half the cost of the accommodation will
have to be borne by the participant. No financial support
is being provided for travel.
Dates
14th March - 27th March, 2005
Venue
BAIF Development Research Foundation
Dr. Manibhai Desai Nagar,
N.H. No. 4, Warje,
Pune - 411 029, Maharashtra.
Tel: 020-25231661
Email: baif@vsnl.com
Course
co-ordinators
Bhargavi V Davar, Ph. D.*
TK Sundari Ravindran, Ph. D.**
Other
Core Faculty
Prof. Amita Dhanda, Ph. D., NALSAR, Hyderabad.
Ms. Anuja Gupta, RAHI, New Delhi.
Dr. Vikram Patel, Chair Person, Sangath, Goa; Faculty, London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London.
*Bhargavi
Davar finished her Ph. D. in Philosophy of Psychiatry from
IIT, Bombay. She has authored two books: Psychoanalysis as
a Human Science (Sage, 1995); Mental health of Indian women
(Sage, 1999) and edited a book, Mental health from a gender
perspective (Sage, 2001). In 1999, she founded the Bapu Trust
for Research on Mind
& Discourse, a national level research organisation devoted
to gender, policy and legal research, and human rights advocacy
in mental health. Bapu is presently running projects on women's
mental health, institutional care, traditional healing and other
vital areas of policy research.
Email: baputrust@rediffmail.com
**TK
Sundari Ravindran is an independent researcher working on
women's health and reproductive rights for the past 20 years.
A doctorate in Applied Economics, she is the founder of RUWSEC,
Tamil Nadu. RUWSEC has pioneered a number of community based
reproductive health programmes. Sundari was co-editor of
Reproductive Health Matters from 1992-1999. She has authored
Women of South-East Asia- A health profile, produced by the
WHO-SEARO and has worked with WHO on the training programme
on "Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health".
She is presently honorary professor at the Achutha Menon
Centre for Health Science Studies in Trivandrum, Kerala,
where she teaches a course on Health and Development to MPH
students.
Email: ravindrans@usa.net
For
details contact us at:
Course co-ordinator, "Gender and Mental Health"
Center
for Advocacy in Mental Health,
Kapil Villa, Plot no. 9
Survey No. 50/4, Kondhwa Khurd
Pune-411048
Tel: 020-26837644/47
Email: wamhc@dataone.in; info@camhindia.org
