Meena K. S. | Journal of Mental Health Education

Learning Mental Health Education: Experiences from a short-term course

Sharmitha Krishnamurthy¹ Meena K. S.² Poornima Bhola³ Aruna R. Kapanee⁴ Suvarna Agrawal⁵ Rohila Parveen⁶ Santosh K Chaturvedi⁷ View Point

This paper describes a distinctive one-month certification programme in Mental Health Education. This was designed, conceptualised and executed at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), a multidisciplinary tertiary care hospital and training institute for mental health and neurosciences in India. Learning about a topic’s integral to mental health education, was facilitated by experts in the field of mental health through diverse and novel methodologies. This brief report details the first-hand experiences of the three participants and their perspectives on the content and format of the programme and its potential applications. The implications for developing public health strategies to enhance mental health literacy in the community are discussed.

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Hybrid Training: e-learning model in Promotion of Mental Health

M. I Singh Sethi¹ Meena K. S.² Sharmitha Krishnamurthy³ Suvarna Agrawal⁴ Xavier B.⁵ Brief Communication

This is the era of technology; the world is getting smaller thanks to the internet. It is impossible to think of life without the internet. Internet has become an indispensable part of all industries and in the last decade has been widely incorporated in the healthcare sector.

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Laying the foundation for a robust Public Mental Health with Mental Health Education

Sharmitha Krishnamurthy¹ Meena K. S.² Aruna R. Kapanee³ View Point

Mental illness places a huge socioeconomic burden on the community and is hence a major public health issue. One in four adults suffers from some or the other forms of mental illness in any given year. Mental Health along with physical health accrues the strong foundation for lifelong health and wellbeing.

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Editorial

Meena K. S.¹ Editorial

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Thus, in order to attain health, improvement of the mental health of individuals is essential. This is all the more important because mental disorders […]

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