Course options
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Qualification
MSc - Master of Science
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Location
Main Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP
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Duration
1 Year
Course summary
Global Mental Health - interdisciplinary approaches at Edinburgh Do you want to examine how mental health is understood and addressed in varied contexts across the world? Are you interested in the social drivers of poor mental health and ways to address these? Do you want to play a role in transforming mental health care globally? Mental health and wellbeing are crucial global health and social welfare policy concerns with significant resources and research devoted to this area. This interdisciplinary postgraduate programme offers you opportunities to develop: critical perspectives on global mental health policy practice and research space for creating transformative possibilities for approaches to global mental health care tools for conceptual and practice innovation in the global mental health field Please note this programme is not a professional programme in mental health and does not provide clinical or professional practice training or accreditation. An interdisciplinary academic discipline Global mental health is emerging as an interdisciplinary discipline with academic training programmes, journals, textbooks and research consortiums working to explore and address a range of global mental health priorities in diverse global settings. Much of this activity has been situated in psychiatry and public health disciplines - with a growing body of scholarly work from other professional and social science disciplines including medical anthropology, social work, international development, and clinical psychology. The role of the social sciences in global mental health is crucial to: further critical understandings of how conceptions of ‘distress’ and ‘mental health’ are socially, culturally and politically constructed in different contexts theorising the intersections between social and economic development and mental health developing effective interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the mental health development interface Debates in mental health care There is increasing global and local policy emphasis on ‘standardised’ and ‘evidence-based’ approaches to mental health care, which in doing so, potentially neglect three important dimensions, namely: the diversity of understandings of what constitutes ‘mental health’ and ‘mental illness’ the complex social, cultural and political dynamics that shape psychological distress the transformative value of inter- and transdisciplinary ways of thinking about and engaging with mental health This programme will engage you in these current debates and dilemmas. It will focus on the culturally, politically and socially situated conceptualisations of mental health, addressing the implications of these multiple understandings for effective policy and practice in other global settings.
Tuition fees
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£ 30,500per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
The University of Edinburgh
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University League Table
18th
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Campus address
Main Campus, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL, United Kingdom
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
14th out of 101 7
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Entry standards
/ Max 210194 92%3rd
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10062.0 62%46th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 42.85 71%94th
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