Postgraduate study in Population Mental Health

The study areas covered include:

• Mental health - a strengths-based approach, not just an absence of mental illness.
• Key concepts of recovery - resilience, spirituality, empowerment, hope.
• Designing innovative group/community projects to foster or improve mental health.
• Promoting mental health (eg, mental health literacy, happiness) for the population.
• Strategies for influencing social, community and institutional conditions that affect mental health, to primary healthcare for patients presenting with mental health issues with a focus on: assessment and management of depression, anxiety, phobias, pain and adjustment disorders in primary care.
• Cognitive behavioural therapy techniques for depression.
• Assessment and management in child and adolescent mental health in primary care (depression, ADHD, eating disorders, somatic problems).
• Mental and physical health – the long term relationship.
• Older adults – depression and dementia.

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