The course is aimed to introduce important concepts and frameworks of mental health and suicide prevention in global settings. It will provide the students an opportunity to understand critical issues in mental health, mental illness, suicidal behaviour, and suicide prevention, with a focus on major differences in settings with low and high levels of resources and their implications for prevention and intervention. Emphasis will be put on public health, population-based, life course, and social ecological perspectives to address the substantial global health burden from mental disorders and suicidal behaviour.
The content of this course will be separated into three parts. First, the students will learn from selective readings such as peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, or other references on various issues of global mental health, wellbeing, and suicide prevention before the course. Second, the course will introduce the aspects of global mental health such as historical perspectives, current situations, determinants, and existing promotion / prevention / intervention strategies on population mental health, mental disorders, and suicidal behaviour thru classroom based lectures and activities. Third, students will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in different hospital and community-based settings where mental disorders are treated and suicide prevention efforts are made thru field trips to department of psychiatry in general hospital, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric clinic, community family support group, and helpline organization.
本課程旨在介紹全球情境中，心理健康和自殺預防的重要概念和架構。將為學生提供了解心理健康，精神疾病，自殺行為和自殺預防等關鍵議題的機會，重點關注於低和高資源環境的主要差異及其對預防和介入的影響。 另外將把重點放在公共衛生，以群體為基礎人口，生命歷程和社會生態觀點上，以解決心理疾患和自殺行為造成的重大全球健康負擔。
本課程的內容將分為三個部分。首先，學生於課前將從精選過的閱讀材料學習，如同儕審閱期刊文章、書本章節、或其他多樣關於全球心理健康、福祉、自殺預防議題的文獻。其次，該課程將透過課堂的講座和活動來介紹有關群體心理健康、心理疾患和自殺行為的歷史觀點、現況、決定因素及現有的促進/預防/介入策略。第三，學生將有機會進入治療心理疾患的不同醫院與社區場域，並透過至綜合醫院，精神專科醫院，身心科診所，社區家庭支持團體及生命線組織的實地考察，了解心理疾患如何被治療及如何進行自殺預防工作。