This course was developed as an outcome of a Mac Arthur Leadership Fund given to one of us in the year 2001. Being the way we are, both of us have continually revisited the course every year, experimented with changes and reviewed the results. We are presenting this report of GMH course 2006 as the first experimental results of all our efforts.

Writing this report has for the first time shown us, who have worked on the nuts and bolts of the course, what the whole looks like. We are quite happy, though that little ever critical voice inside us tells us that ‘there is scope for betterment’.

We are, however, convinced that the Gender and Mental Health course serves an important need in filling gaps in knowledge and approaches, in the field of women’s health, disability and rights. We see this report as a part of the continuing process of educating ourselves and others on the subject.

Gender, Mental Health, Women’s health, Values and Human Rights, as perspectival and analytical categories, are placed at the core of each and every module / session of the GMH course. The course builds up from a micro- level understanding of personal and inter-personal work, to more macro-level understandings of program development, planning for public health services, ethics, policy and law. The course was built on the twin foundations of research and experience, theory and practice, and at the center of each module, opportunities were created to connect with women’s experiences. A spectrum of areas from ‘development’ to ‘human rights’ were covered, along the way addressing dilemmas and tensions, some of which were irreconcilable.

We have not herein presented the minute details of each session, the high quality of discussions and dialogues pursued, or the extensive resource materials provided. The hard shell of the course is given in full view here, and we hope that this view will be persuasive enough for organisations and institutions to engage more with the course in multiple ways. Certainly, the report cannot substitute attending the course!

Bhargavi Davar
Sundari Ravindran
Pune, 10th January 2007

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CAMH Publications
	General Hospital Psychiatric Units and Rehabilitation Centres in India: Do Law and Public Policy Present Barriers to Community-Based Mental Health Services?
	Gender and Mental Health, a Report, 2006
	First Person Stories (Oral Histories Archive)
	Healing from Violence - A Counseling Manual
	Life behind walls…
	Bijli: Treating mental disorders
	Mental health, childbirth and pregnancy: Evidence
	Reproductive health and mental health: A book of abstracts
	Alternative Mental Health: A report of a Workshop
	A Directory of mental health services in Pune city
	(2003) (with Tathapi Trust) "Striya ani manasik aarogya… ek suruvath"
	(2002) (with Tathapi Trust) "Women and mental health: a beginning…
Other printed materials
	JMAA Posters
	Greeting Cards
	Posters