Mental Health Promotion
Objectives
- Define the concept of Mental Health, its historical evolution;
- Identify the determinants of mental Health;
- Clearly understand the difference between Mental Health and the non existence of Mental disease;
- Know the social and individual impact of a poor mental health and mental diseases;
- to know the different theoretical models that contribute to the concept of Mental Health;
- to know Mental Health Promotion Programs that demonstrated to be efficient
- Design and implement a MHP program;
- To have knowledge about specific areas of MHP as pregnancy and early childhood, immigrant integration, domestic violence and stigma;
¿ To know how services organization are crucial to the design and success of MHP Programs.
General characterization
Code
9570
Credits
4
Responsible teacher
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Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 112
Teaching language
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Prerequisites
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Bibliography
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Teaching method
Lectures with debate.
Case-studies for critical analysis.
Work group sessions for applying Problem Based Learning (PBL) methodology to the development of a Mental Health Promotion Program.
The individual evaluation will be 40% and the working group 60%.
Evaluation method
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Subject matter
¿ Mental Health and Mental Diseases ¿ definition, determinants and theoretical models;
¿ Mental Health Promotion Programs;
¿ Multiculturalism and immigrant¿s integration;
¿ Mental Health Promotion during pregnancy and early childhood;
¿ Domestic Violence - Stigma in Mental Health
¿ Implementation of MHP Programs and services organization in community