Community Mental Health
Community Mental Health is envisioned to help address the lack of mental health service providers in the country and increase mental health literacy.
The course will introduce the basic concept of mental health as a public health issue and how it impacts on community health care in general. Students will also receive basic skills training on identifying symptoms of common mental disorders, providing early intervention at a community level, and psychosocial processing.
OBJECTIVES
The course will enable participants to:
1. Define mental health, mental health problems, and mental illness;
2. Discuss the relationship of mental health to overall well-being across the lifespan
3. Identify and explain the determinants of mental health and mental illness in the community
4. Develop a community mental health plan
5. Illustrate ways to promote mental health and integrate mental health activities in existing community programs ( for example disaster, child programs, day care services, drug prevention programs, etc.)
COURSE DELIVERY AND MATERIALS
This 12-week course is delivered through a blended mode of teaching-learning using both online and face to face sessions. The course package includes course guide, handouts, course readings and CDs.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENT
General health workers include the community health worker, primary care nurse,
social worker, and general medical practitioner with little or no background in the area of
mental health or in dealing with persons with mental illness.
FEES (PHP 6,000)
Fees include the following:
PhP100 - Application/ Registration Fee
PhP5,500 - Course Fee
PhP400 - miscellaneous
COURSE TOPICS
- Understanding mental health and mental illness
- Mental health promotion
- Wellness of Daily Living
- Substance Abuse and other forms of addiction
- Common Mental Disorders
- Psychosocial Consequences of Extreme Life Experience
- Integrating Mental Health in Other Health Programs
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
The end product of this course will be a Community Health Plan that will include:
- Description of selected community and its mental health concerns
- Identification of current mental health resources in the community that will facilitate mental health care
- A personal assessment of own capabilities based on current role as a heath worker
- A plan to sustain the knowledge and skills that have learned from this course. Other resources that need to implement the plans.
ENROLLMENT
Participants can log on to www.upou.edu.ph for
online registration, or visit the
Faculty of Management and Development Studies,
UPOU HQ, Los Baños, Laguna.
Payments can be done through Philippine National Bank (PNB)
DEPOSITORY OFFICE:
PNB – UP Los Baños Branch
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 446-537973-7
NAME OF DEPOSITOR:
UPOU Trust Fund
DP: March 2009
