Course summary

An interdisciplinary academic discipline Global mental health is an interdisciplinary discipline with academic training programmes, journals, textbooks and research consortiums working to explore and address a range of global mental health priorities in diverse global settings. Much of this activity has been situated in psychiatry and public health disciplines, with a growing body of scholarly work from other professional and social science disciplines including:

• medical anthropology

• social work

• international development

• clinical psychology

• further critical understandings of how conceptions of ‘distress’ and ‘mental health’ and 'wellbeing' are socially, culturally and politically constructed in different contexts

• theorising the intersections between social, economic and technological development and mental health

• developing effective interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the mental health and development interface

• Do you want to examine how mental health is understood and addressed in varied contexts across the world?

• Are you interested in the social, economic, political, and environmental 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

• social work

• international development

• public health

• psychology

• nursing

• medicine

• health studies

• social and medical anthropology

• sociology

• other social science disciplines