EDCMA

Re-Thinking Mental Health Recovery: Community Practices in Asia

Category
Seminar
07 October 2021
10:00 - 11:00

Venue

Online

Description

"Recovery" from mental health difficulties is shaped differently in different places. Contextualized understandings of how notions of ‘recovery’ are used in different practice contexts can contribute to developing better understandings of how to promote social inclusion in mental health care. Join us as we hear about recovery in three diverse Asian settings.

This is the first in a series of global mental health webinars on "mental health" and "recovery" co-hosted by the University of Edinburgh Global Mental Health network & Burans (a partnership initiative that promotes mental health and wellbeing by building on community strengths and resources in Uttarakhand, North India).

Dr. Alok Sarin is a clinical psychiatrist practicing in New Delhi at Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research and will be chairing our first webinar.

Speakers

Dr. Sachin Barbde a public health physician who is working with Ekjut India, co-developing a Community Mental Health Initiative for indigenous communities of Jharkhand.

Bidya Maharjan, a mental health practitioner working as the programme manager at a Nepali mental health NGO called Chhahari Nepal for Mental Health (CNMH). She has several years of practical and research experience in community mental health and advocates for a social model approach to mental health care.

Dr. Bhoomikumar Jegannathan, is the program director, consultant child psychiatrist and public health physician at the Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CCAMH) at Chey Chumneas Referral Hospital in Kandal Province in Cambodia.

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Key speakers

  • Dr. Sachin Barbde
  • Bidya Maharjan
  • Dr. Bhoomikumar Jegannathan