Book contents
- Volunteering in Global Mental Health
- Reviews
- Volunteering in Global Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Key Principles, Theory and Concepts
- Section 2 Practical Guide and Toolkit
- Section 3 Reflective Accounts and Perspectives of Global Mental Health Volunteering
- Chapter 12 Myanmar: Mental Health Training, Recipient Perspective
- Chapter 13 Myanmar: Mental Health Training, Trainer Perspective
- Chapter 14 Somaliland: Mental Health Training, Recipient Perspective
- Chapter 15 Somaliland and Malawi: Mental Health Training, Trainer Perspective
- Chapter 16 Zimbabwe: Diaspora Perspective of Volunteering
- Chapter 17 Sierra Leone: Capacity Building, Trainee Perspective on Volunteering
- Chapter 18 Chad, Darfur, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh: Humanitarian Field Experiences
- Chapter 19 Sudan: Mental Health Training, mhGAP Trainer Perspective
- Chapter 20 Kashmir: Mental Health Training, Royal College of Psychiatrists’ VIPSIG Training Programme
- Chapter 21 Ghana: Supervisor Perspective, RCPsych Volunteer Programme
- Section 4 Future of Global Volunteering
- Book part
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Somaliland and Malawi: Mental Health Training, Trainer Perspective
from Section 3 - Reflective Accounts and Perspectives of Global Mental Health Volunteering
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2023
Book contents
- Volunteering in Global Mental Health
- Reviews
- Volunteering in Global Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Key Principles, Theory and Concepts
- Section 2 Practical Guide and Toolkit
- Section 3 Reflective Accounts and Perspectives of Global Mental Health Volunteering
- Chapter 12 Myanmar: Mental Health Training, Recipient Perspective
- Chapter 13 Myanmar: Mental Health Training, Trainer Perspective
- Chapter 14 Somaliland: Mental Health Training, Recipient Perspective
- Chapter 15 Somaliland and Malawi: Mental Health Training, Trainer Perspective
- Chapter 16 Zimbabwe: Diaspora Perspective of Volunteering
- Chapter 17 Sierra Leone: Capacity Building, Trainee Perspective on Volunteering
- Chapter 18 Chad, Darfur, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh: Humanitarian Field Experiences
- Chapter 19 Sudan: Mental Health Training, mhGAP Trainer Perspective
- Chapter 20 Kashmir: Mental Health Training, Royal College of Psychiatrists’ VIPSIG Training Programme
- Chapter 21 Ghana: Supervisor Perspective, RCPsych Volunteer Programme
- Section 4 Future of Global Volunteering
- Book part
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Summary
In 2013, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to teach psychiatry in Boroma, Somaliland for two weeks as part of the King’s THET Somaliland Partnership (Tropical Health and Education Trust; KTSP) charitable project. Somaliland is a self-declared independent state and post-conflict area, with a significantly under-developed healthcare system. Mental health is a particularly neglected area. I taught alongside another UK-based psychiatry trainee and project co-lead, with a team of 8–12 Somali co-tutors and staff, including a psychiatry doctor, foundation doctors, senior faculty, nurse and community health workers. We taught and examined 68 medical students. The training was mainly based on the WHO Mental Health GAP Action Programme (mhGAP) manual[1], which is designed to train non-specialists in how to recognise and manage most mental health problems, especially where there is no psychiatrist.
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