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The Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Training Program, GMH, is in its 18th year. GMH was implemented in November 2006 by a call for training capacity in mental health by the World’s Ministers of Health (n=38) meeting in Rome in December 2004. The main objective of the GMH Program is to provide state-of-the-art cultural and evidence-based knowledge and skills to health and mental health professionals, humanitarian relief workers, and policy planners caring for traumatized patients, families, and communities worldwide. Advances in the neurosciences, psychosocial interventions, and community development will be offered. A major focus of the course is on the transfer of knowledge in trauma informed care of survivors, an in-depth study of the neuroscience of trauma, and leadership development of course participants. Course participants receive an online version of the textbook: Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery: A Companion Guide for Field and Clinical Care of Traumatized People Worldwide. Special highlighted topics include the long-term impact of COVID-19, self-care for health care workers, racial trauma, and climate change, and ecocide. The combination of lectures, Q&A with faculty allows for in-depth sharing of knowledge and expertise of faculty and participants. This program uses a lecture and discussion format for all the subjects included in the course. Additionally, there will be an opportunity for participants to network with one another and with the faculty.

Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program

GMH course

Coming in September 2024
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Sponsored by Harvard Medical School

The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma

The Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education

present:

GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH:

Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program


GMH Course

Coming in September 2024
Please check back for additional updates

 

The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) and the Harvard Medical School are offering an extraordinary two-week online certificate program, Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery. The program provides training for health care practitioners, humanitarian relief workers and policy planners addressing the health and mental health sequelae of trauma. The curriculum is adaptable for diverse populations and global environments affected by violence and natural disasters.

The Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program is the first of its kind in global mental health, trauma, and post- conflict/disaster recovery. The major rationale for this Certificate Program emerged from 30 years of clinical care, training and research by the faculty with survivors of violence and natural disasters throughout the world.

In collaboration with Caritas Rome, Fulbright New Century Scholars Program and the World Bank, HPRT and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) developed the global Project 1 Billion: International Congress of Ministers of Health for Mental Health and Post-Conflict Recovery. In December 2004, this project brought together Ministers of Health from the world's post-conflict countries to endorse a science-based, culturally effective and sustainable Mental Health Action Plan and Book of Best Practices for post-conflict recovery. Project 1 Billion revealed the great need for the education and capacity building of health care professionals, international relief workers and policy makers in the area of mental health. This Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program is a major result of Project 1 Billion.

Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a certificate of completion from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and a certificate of participation with continuing medical education credits from Harvard Medical School.

Mission and Learning Objectives

More than one billion people have been affected by violence and disaster throughout the world. Our mission is to maximize a scientific and cultural approach and methodology to reduce suffering, minimize disability and increase resiliency for survivors of violence worldwide. This Program offers a transformative training experience to create a network of global leaders in mental health recovery.

Upon completion of the certificate program, participants will be able to:

  1. Integrate science, culture and evidence-based knowledge and practices in policy planning, clinical care, humanitarian, and human rights activities
  2. Implement and use advances in the neurosciences and cultural knowledge of the clinical care of traumatized persons, their families, and communities
  3. Define effective scientific approaches for the care of survivors of the long-term impact of COVID-19 pandemic, racial trauma, climate change and ecocide
  4. Demonstrate new leadership skills in clinical care, program development, and research
  5. Learn the important historical scientific and evaluation approaches to the care of survivors of trauma
  6. Apply professional development and ethics in working with vulnerable groups and communities

Learning Approach

The program participants will receive the textbook Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery: A Companion Guide for Field and Clinical Care of Traumatized People Worldwide. Lectures to be presented by globally recognized leaders in their respective fields and will follow the eight dimensions of the Global Mental Health Action Plan.

Course Format

Video lectures will be archived for access at a later time. Instructions for access will be provided after registration.

Topics

The program emphasis is on learning an integrated holistic approach to policy planning and clinical care using the Mental Health Action Plan.

Topics include:

  • Phenomenological theory of trauma and recovery developed by HPRT and international colleagues over 30 years
  • Epidemiology and the neuroscience of trauma
  • The Global Mental Health Action Plan
  • Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Mental Health and Medical Disorders
  • Scientific (Evidence-Based) and Culturally Valid Best Practices
  • Health and mental health impact of long-term COVID-19 pandemic; racial trauma, and health disparities
  • Tele-Health and sustainable care
  • Human Rights and Rebuilding Social Capital
  • Working in Interdisciplinary Medical Teams
  • Economic Development, including use of HIT innovations
  • Research Methods
  • Climate change and ecocide
     

Faculty

 Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR, Director, GMHTR Certificate Program, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital.

 Massimo Ammaniti, MD, Child Psychiatrist & Psychoanalyst; Honorary Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and Former Chairman of the Faculty of Infant and Adolescent Clinical Psychology at University of Rome La Sapienza.

 Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW, Deputy Director and Director of Telemedicine for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT); Co- Founder, World Bank Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group; Former Lecturer, Georgetown University Graduate School of Public Health. World Economic Forum, Wellness Initiative.

 Omar Bah, PsyD, Founder and Executive Director: The Refugee Dream Center, Inc., Rhode Island, Author of the book “Africa’s Hell on Earth: The Ordeal of an African Journalist”

 Sondra Crosby, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Departments of Medicine, and Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights; Member, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center.

 Anna Detheridge, Founder and President of Connecting Cultures, Foundation for the Arts and Interdisciplinary Research, Milan Italy, writer lecturer and journalist in the field of Visual Artes Design and Rights.

 Gregory L. Fricchione, MD, Associate Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

 Heidi Kerko, JD, Director of RJRI which funds research related to transitional justice mechanisms, localized indigenous justice practices, international courts, and commissions in order to understand how the pursuit of justice affects a survivor’s mental health and their community.

 Maria Leister, JD, Associate Director of Leadership Development Business Development at Kotter International. Fellow at Harvard University Office of the President. Former Administrative Director Harvard Defenders and Founder and Director Emerging Leaders at Harvard Law School.

 Jutta Lindert, PhD, MPH, MA, Professor of Public Health, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany; WRSC Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.

 Laura McDonald, PhD, MALD, Operations and Evaluations, Education Global Practice, World Bank. Co- Founder, World Bank Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group.

 Giovanni Muscettola, MD, Former Chairman, Professor and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University Medical School "Federico II" Napoli, Italy.

 Raewyn Mutch , MD, MBChB (Otago), DipRACOG, FRACP, PhD (UWA), Special Consultant Pediatrician, Refugee Health and General Pediatrics, Perth Children's Hospital, Perth, Western Australia (WA); Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Refugee Health Service, Perth, Children’s Hospital Western Australia.

 Giampaolo Nicolais, PhD, Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Chairman of the Department of Clinical Psychology "Sapienza" University of Rome.

 Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, MBBS, MSc, FWACP, Neuropsychiatrist, Medical Director/CEO, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Barnawa, Kaduna, Northern Nigeria; Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Psychiatry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

 Derrick Silove, AM MB ChB (Hons I), FRANZCP, MD (Research), FASSA, Emeritus Professor, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Board Member, STARTTS, NSW, Clinical Psychiatrist, East Coast Psychology and Psychiatry, Sydney.

 Theoni Stathopoulou, PhD, Research Director, National Centre for Social Research, Greece. Former member of the National Council for Research and Innovation and the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation. National Coordinator of ESS-ERIC, Member of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC-Eurostat) on the Hellenic Statistical Advisory Board (SYELPESS).

 Frederick (Jerry) Streets, MDiv, MSW, DSW, LICSW, Former Chaplain, Yale University, Professor (adjunct), Yale University Divinity School and Columbia University School of Social Work.

Accreditation

The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Harvard Medical School credits to be determined. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Explanation of Credit Award: To be determined

Participation in the course is required to receive CME credits and HPRT’s certificate of completion.

Disclosure Policy

Harvard Medical School (HMS) adheres to all ACCME Accreditation Criteria and Policies. It is HMS's policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that HMS may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

This course is designed to meet one or more of the following American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies:

Patient Care and Procedural Skills, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Professionalism, System-Based Practice, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, and Medical Knowledge.

This course is designed to meet one or more of the following Institute of Medicine (IOM) competencies:

Provide Patient-Centered Care, Employ Evidence-Based Practice, and Work in Interdisciplinary Teams.

Who should apply?

Health care workers including doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and other public health professionals; policy planners, lawyers, human rights workers, educators, and journalists working with populations that are survivors of violence and/or disasters.

Admissions criteria

Several criteria will be used to assess eligibility for the Certificate Program, including:

  • A prior graduate level degree and experience in the health-related sector, including humanitarian workers.
  • Field workers without a graduate degree with equivalent field experience can apply.
  • Interest and career aspirations in caring for traumatized populations.
  • Access to computer and internet.
  • Written, spoken, and reading proficiency in English.

Program Director: Professor Richard F. Mollica, MD MAR

 For more information please contact us by email at:  hprt.gmh@gmail.com

Villa Paolina
Villa Paolina

For 14 years, the GMH course was conducted on-site in the Villa Paolina in Porano, Italy, a beautiful Umbrian town near the Etruscan city of Orvieto.

The 2024 GMH course will be offered online in September 2024. Please check back for additional updates.

Orvieto, City in the Clouds
Orvieto, City in the Clouds

Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program

Coming in September 2024
Please check back for additional updates

Sponsored by Harvard Medical School