Course summary
Global Mental Health - interdisciplinary approaches at Edinburgh
- Do you want to examine how mental health is understood and addressed in varied contexts across the world?
- Are you interested in the social drivers of poor mental health and ways to address these?
- Do you want to play a role in transforming mental health care globally?
- critical perspectives on global mental health policy
- practice and research space for creating transformative possibilities for approaches to global mental health care
- tools for conceptual and practice innovation in the global mental health field
- further critical understandings of how conceptions of ‘distress’ and ‘mental health’ are socially, culturally and politically constructed in different contexts
- theorising the intersections between social and economic development and mental health
- developing effective interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the mental health-development interface
- the diversity of understandings of what constitutes ‘mental health’ and ‘mental illness’
- the complex social, cultural and political dynamics that shape psychological distress
- the transformative value of inter- and transdisciplinary ways of thinking about and engaging with mental health
- social work
- international development
- public health
- psychology
- nursing
- medicine
- health studies
- social and medical anthropology
- sociology
- other social science disciplines
Modules
See the University of Edinburgh website for detailed programme information.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on the University of Edinburgh website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
Provider information
The University of Edinburgh
Student Recruitment and Admissions
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