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