Section Name Description
Module 1: Lesson 1: Basic Concepts and Objectives of Global Mental Health URL Mental Disorders

Read the main webpage.
Click on each of the listed mental disorders. (52 minutes)

MedlinePlus: National Library of Medicine (US) - 2020

URL Mental Health: Strengthening our Response

Read the entire webpage. (7 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2022

URL The Relationship Between Physical and Mental Health: A Mediation Analysis

Read sections “2.1 conceptual frameworks” and "Discussion & Conclusion." (19 minutes)

Social Science & Medicine - 2017

URL Relationships, Family and Mental Health

Read the entire webpage. (8 minutes)

Department of Health, State Government of Victoria, Australia - 2015

URL The History of Mental Health Services in Modern England: Practitioner Memories and the Direction of Future Research

Read the content under the heading "History as retrospective: contributors’ reconstruction of their own past" and "Towards a history of modern mental health services." (18 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information - 2015

URL Mental Health and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: Global Inaction on Mental Health is Putting the Brakes on Development

Read this short policy brief published in 2018 by the Mental Health Innovation Network (for United for Global Mental Health). (9 minutes)

Mental Health Innovation Network - 2018

URL The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development: Evidence for Action on Mental Health and Global Development

Read the entire policy brief document(8 minutes)

The Lancet Journal - 2018

URL Mental Health: Lessons Learned in 2020 for 2021 and Forward

Read the entire webpage. (7 minutes)

World Bank Group - 2021

URL Multidimensional Impact of Severe Mental Illness on Family Members: Systematic Review

Read the entire webpage. (8 minutes)

BMJ Open - 2019

URL History of Mental Illness

Read the content under the heading "History of Mental Illness." (16 minutes)

NOBA - 2022

Module 1: Lesson 2: Overview of Mental Health Disorders Towards Accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals URL DSM History

Read this webpage which introduces the DSM-5 classification and its different evolutions through time. (8 minutes)

APA - 2022

URL Implications of DSM-5 for Health Care Organizations and Mental Health Policy

Read the content under the headings "Introduction," "Spectrum Approach to Definition of Mental Illness," and "Environmental Risk Factors Related to Stress and Trauma" on pages 218-227. (18 minutes)

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration - 2016

URL An Introduction to the Classification of Mental Disorders: the DSM and the ICD

Read the entire article. (14 minutes)

Mental Health Today - 2019

URL Mental Health Atlas

Read the content under the headings:
1. Executive Summary (pp 1- 5). (17 minutes)
3. Financial and Human Resources for Mental Health – section on Workforce (pp 50-68). (26 minutes)
4. Mental Health Service Availability and Uptake (pp 69- 106). (56 minutes)
5. Mental Health Promotion and Prevention (pp 107-115).
 
(17minutes)

WHO Report - 2020

URL Mental Health and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: Global Inaction on Mental Health is Putting the Brakes on Development

Read the entire document(11 minutes)

Mental Health Innovation Network - 2018

URL Sustainable Development Goals and Mental Health: Learnings from the Contribution of the FundaMentalSDG Global Initiative

Read from the introduction to the conclusion of the article. (24 minutes)

Global Mental Health - 2016

Module 2: Lesson 1: Influence of Risk Factors on Global Mental Health URL Risk and Protective Factors

Read the entire webpage. (3 minutes)

American Mental Wellness Association - 2016

URL A Structural Brain Network of Genetic Vulnerability to Psychiatric Illness

Read the content under the headings "Introduction" and "Discussion." (10 minutes)

Read the content under the heading "Results." (11 minutes)

Molecular Psychiatry - 2020

URL Mental Wellbeing Risk & Protective Factors

Read the content under the heading "Findings" on pages 9-18. (40 minutes)

Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Report - 2019

URL Outside/inside: social determinants of mental health

Read the article below (stop before the section entitled “Policy implications”).  (25 minutes)

Cambridge University Press - 2021

URL Developing a Broad Categorisation Scheme to Describe Risk Factors for Mental Illness, for Use in Prevention Policy and Planning"

Read the content of Table 3: "Potential risk factors for mental illness by primary and secondary categories" on pages 236-237. (7 minutes)

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry - 2017

Module 2: Lesson 2: Vulnerability to Mental Health Disorders URL Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People With Co-Occurring Disorders

Read the content under the heading "Chapter 6 - Co-Occurring Disorders Among Special Populations" on pages 165-182. (68 minutes)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration - 2020

URL Mental Health Problems Among Economically Disadvantaged Adolescents in an Increasingly Unequal Society: A Swedish Study Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Data from 1995 to 2011

Read the content under the heading "1. Background." (14 minutes)

London: Mental Health Foundation - 2016

URL HIV/AIDS and Mental Health

Read the content under the headings "Overview," "People living with HIV/AIDS are at a higher risk for mental disorders," "Central Nervous System Disease Associated with HIV," and "HIV Treatments and Therapies." (6 minutes)

National Institute of Mental Health - 2020

URL Mental Health and HIV/AIDS

Read the entire document. (4 minutes)

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - 2018

Module 2: Lesson 3: Global Mental Health Disorders in an Epidemiological Context URL Our World in Data-Mental Health

Read the content under the heading "Mental Health" and interact with the table. (4 minutes)

Our World In Data - 2018

URL Global mental health: five key insights which emerge from the data

Read the entire webpage. (10 minutes)

Our World in Data - 2018

URL Our World in Data- Mental Health

Read the following titles under the heading: (5 minutes)

"Empirical View:"
"Prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders"
"Mental and substance use disorders are common globally"
"Prevalence of mental health disorders by disorder type"
"Prevalence of mental health disorders by gender"
 

Our World in Data - 2018

URL Estimating the True Global Burden of Mental Illness

Read the entire article. (34 minutes)

Although the data is old, it offers one of the more recent publicly assessable comprehensive overviews, and evidence shows that the data have been relatively stable over time.

The Lancet - 2016

URL The Global Burden of Disease Methodology Has Been Good for Mental Disorders: But Not Good Enough

Read the entire article. (7 minutes)

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry - 2020

URL Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Read the content under the headings "Introduction" and "Discussion." (20 minutes)

Although the data is old, it offers one of the more recent publicly assessable comprehensive overviews, and evidence shows that the data have been relatively stable over time.

The Lancet - 2013

URL Lancet Regional Health (2022) Presenting the Results of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Read the introduction, discussion, and conclusion. (16 minutes)

The Lancet Regional Health - 2019

URL Mental Health Atlas-2020 Country Profiles

Search your country using the list provided on the webpage(10 minutes)

WHO Report - 2020

Module 3: Lesson 1: The Influence of Substance Abuse Disorders on Global Mental Health URL Common Comorbidities with Substance Use Disorders Research Report - Why is there Comorbidity Between Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illnesses?

Read the entire report. (15 minutes)

National Institute on Drug Abuse (Research Report) - 2020

URL Examining the Association and Directionality between Mental Health Disorders and Substance Use among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U.S. and Canada—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Read “1. Background,” “4. Discussion,” and Table 2, “Overall pooled estimates for mental health disorders and substance use,” in the article provided. (18 minutes)

Journal of Clinical Medicine - 2018

URL Understanding Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

Read the entire article. (44 minutes)

Iris Publishers - 2019

URL Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders

Read the content under the heading "Understanding Stigma of Mental and Substance Use Disorders."(55 minutes)

NCBI - 2016

Module 3: Lesson 2: Screening and Treatment Programs URL Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People With Co-Occurring Disorders

Read the content under the heading "Chapter 2 - Guiding Principles for Working With People Who Have Co-Occurring Disorders" on pages 13-29

Read the content under "Chapter 3 - Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders” on pages 31 to 68 and "Chapter 7 - Treatment Models and Settings for People With Co-Occurring Disorders."

Read the content under "Chapter 4 - Mental and Substance-Related Disorders: Diagnostic and Cross-Cutting Topics” (optional). (62 minutes)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - 2020

Module 3: Lesson 3: Role of Advocacy in Substance Abuse on Mental Health URL Communication Strategies to Counter Stigma and Improve Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder Policy

Read the entire webpage. (42 minutes)

Psychiatric Services - 2017

Module 4: Lesson 1: Planning Interventions Based on Recognized Guidelines URL Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP)

Read the entire webpage and watch the video. (10 minutes)

WHO - 2019

URL Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030

Read the content under the headings "Options for the implementation of the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030" and " Strengthening and empowerment of people with mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities and their organizations" on pgs 20-22. (7 minutes)

WHO - 2021

URL Tools and Toolkits

Read the entire webpage. (2 minutes)

The website provides a list of tools that can be used in health and mental health programs, but students are not required to click on each link.

WHO - 2022

URL mhGAP Intervention Guide for Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Disorders in Non-specialized Health Settings

Read the content under the heading "Essential Care & Practice" on pages 5-15. (20 minutes)

WHO - 2016

URL mhGAP Community Toolkit

Read the content under the heading "Part 1: Guide for programme managers" on pages 1-23. (41 minutes)

WHO - 2019

Module 4: Lesson 2: Implementing Mental Health Interventions URL Mental Health Service Provision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Read the entire article. (35 minutes)

NCBI - 2017

URL mhGAP Community Toolkit

Read the content under the heading "Part 2: mhGAP Community Provider Manual" on pages 25-98. (160 minutes)

(Completing the activities is recommended but not mandatory.)

WHO - 2019

URL Human Resources for Human Health: Foundation for Universal Health Coverage and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Read the content under the heading "Bolstering Political will for Human Resources for Health: the Third Global Forum Commitments" on pages 31-36. (13 minutes)

WHO - 2015

URL Mental Health in Emergencies

Read the entire webpage. (10 minutes)

WHO - 2022

URL Community Interventions to Promote Mental Health and Social Equity

Read the entire article. (34 minutes)

Current Psychiatry Reports - 2019

URL Considering Culture, Context and Community in mhGAP Implementation and Training: Challenges and Recommendations from the Field

Read the content under the headings "Background," "The goals and structure of mhGAP," "Challenges in implementing mhGAP training programs in LMIC," and "Findings and discussion." (31 minutes)

International Journal of Mental Health Systems - 2019

URL MhGap Training Videos

Watch the videos of the entire playlist to familiarize yourself with the mhGAP clinical approach. (118 minutes)

mhGAP Training - 2017

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