Mental Health Programs and Interventions

This course provides trainees with the knowledge and skills to design, develop, and implement mental health programs and mental health promotion activities, especially in low-resource settings. The course covers the integration of packages of care for mental disorders into different platforms of care including primary care and maternal healthcare or into platforms of care for other communicable and non-communicable diseases. Moreover, the course focuses on the evaluation mental health programs and mental health promotion strategies.

1. Demonstrate a critical in-depth awareness of mental health promotion
2. Explain and critically discuss the principal methods and theoretical approaches to the evaluation and assessment of evidence for effectiveness of mental health promotion programs and interventions
3. Describe how to integrate a package of care for a specific mental disorder into a platform of healthcare delivery
4. Develop skills in the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention and harm reduction strategies that address mental health and substance use
5. Critically evaluate public health strategies aimed at promoting mental health
6. Design a population level mental health intervention program that includes a plan for evaluating its effectiveness
7. Plan and design effective, efficient, culturally sensitive and ethical mental health interventions and mental health promotion action for specific stakeholders in a variety of settings
8. Weigh the main approaches that can be used in implementing health promotion at individual, community, and policy development levels