10
day Residential Study Program
26th January - 5th February, 2006, Pune.
Course
co-ordinators
Bhargavi V Davar, Ph. D.
TK Sundari Ravindran, Ph. D.
Background This
course has been piloted twice [2004, 2005] and finalized as a
10 day curriculum. The course was developed in response to a
huge need felt by women's collectives, non-governmental organizations,
government agencies, research, teaching institutions and diverse
kinds of professional agencies to develop perspective and understanding
in a core area of women's health. The first of its kind in India,
this course fills an important gap in social science, mental
health, development, human rights advocacy and policy thinking
on gender and mental health.
Objectives
of the Course
The
course will enable participants to:
Use
the concept of gender in the field of mental health
Obtain
and use evidence based knowledge relevant to the field
Make
informed linkages between reproductive health, sexuality
and mental health
Critically
approach research information and education materials
in the subject area
Develop
skills to conceptualise programs in mental health in
their organizations and community work
Develop
an approach to creating emotionally fulfilling work environments
Contribute
to policy, human rights and legal advocacy in the subject
area
Participants
(Max. 25)
Participants
may be from the medical, professional, governmental or
the development sector. 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. They may be doctors,
health, mental health, social science or human rights professionals,
health care providers, policy developers, program managers,
and researchers. They would have an interest and aptitude
for studying the subject areas as a part of their own professional
development. They would have experience in health / RH,
service delivery, human rights advocacy or other development
work.
Medium
of instruction: English
Course
Outline
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.
Module
2 - Reproductive Health and Mental Health
This
module will introduce concerns in the growing field of gender,
mental health and reproductive health, covering:
Perspective
on gender and reproductive health
Evidence
Base- Reproductive health, sexuality and mental health
Gynecological
Morbidity, Post Natal Depression and Mental Health
Violence
against women and mental health
Module
3 - Education, Policy and Advocacy in Mental Health
This
module will introduce policy and service delivery issues in
mental health. It will address critical concerns in the production
of research and education materials in mental health. Participants
will develop insight into creating mental health friendly working
teams and organizations.
Mental
health policy
A
critical approach to information in mental health
Mental
health within working teams and organisations
Module
4 - Ethics, Law and Mental Health
This
module will address the ethical, legal and human rights concerns
in mental health
Value
clarifications in the mental health sector
Law
and mental health
Mental
health and women’s health- Strategies for integration
Methods
The course is an intensive and interactive academic study program.
All participants are expected to stay on campus during the
course of study. 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.
Registration
The last date for registration is 15th December 2005. The registration
form may be downloaded from our website: www.camhindia.org
A course development and registration fee of Rs. 1000/= is
being charged for the course, to cover the cost of the exhaustive
course materials being provided. Course fee may be paid after
confirmation of participation. 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 accommodation will have to be borne by the participant.
No financial support is being provided for travel.
Dates
26th January – 5th February, 2006
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
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 social sciences, 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. It runs a library,
documentation service (Center for Advocacy in Mental Health)
and a psychotherapy program called Seher, in Pune city. Email: info@camhindia.org or wamhc@vsnl.net
**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
a research centre of Bapu Trust
Kapil Villa, Plot no. 9
Survey No. 50/4, Kondhwa Khurd
Pune-411048
Tel: 020-26837644/47
Email: wamhc@dataone.in; info@camhindia.org
Funding
The training program is being financially supported by Sir Dorabji
Tata Trust, Mumbai.
