DGH 456/556;PSYCH 448 B;JSIS 478 D (3 credits): Global Mental Health is now a permanent course that is cross listed in Global Health, Psychology, and the Jackson School of International Studies. Deepa Rao, assistant professor in Global Health, who is teaching the course, said the following topics will be covered: The global burden of mental illness; mental health and societal inequalities; culturally appropriate assessment; culturally appropriate treatments and medical dualism; global child and adolescent mental health; implementation science and task sharing mental health services; women and mental health; stigma and stigma reduction approaches; torture and refugee mental health.Said Rao: “We will examine methodological questions, such as the use of Kleinman’s “explanatory models of illness” paradigm as a tool in cross-cultural psychiatric research.  We will also review clinical and treatment practices when working with people with mental illnesses from low-resource settings.
Watch videos from faculty speaking on "Global Mental Health: Disease Burden and Intervention" at the 2012 Western Regional International Health Conference held on UW campus. They include Rao; Jürgen Unutzer, Professor & Vice Chair of Psychiatry; and Paul Bolton, Associate Scientist at Johns Hopkins.