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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

By
Mandip Jheeta
Edited by
Sophie Thomson ,
Peter Hughes  and
Sam Gnanapragasam
Sophie Thomson
Affiliation:
World Psychiatric Association
Peter Hughes
Affiliation:
Springfield University Hospital, London
Sam Gnanapragasam
Affiliation:
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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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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Volunteering in Global Mental Health
A Practical Guide for Clinicians
 , pp. 136 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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