Gaza Community Mental Health Programme Two-year Post-graduate Diploma in Community Mental Health Summary Report (1997,1998)

 

Class of 1997,

Number of Students : 12 (9 males, 3 females), (1 physician, 2 social workers, 9 nurses)

Classes started in February 1997. All theoretical courses ended in February 1998, and practical training followed. Practical training is being carried out in the following institutions:

• Palestinian Red Crescent Society
• Child Development Center
• Governmental Psychiatric Hospital
• National Association for the Rehabilitation of the Handicapped
• Right to Live Society for Children with Down’s Syndrome
• Al-Wafa Association for the Elderly
• Deaf Children Center
• Three GCMHP clinics in Gaza, Khan Younis, and Jabalia

Class of 1998,

Number of Students: 12 (8 males, 4 females), (5 physicians, 3 nurses, 3 psychologists, 1 rehabilitation specialist)

Classes started in January 1998, and as of 14 April 1998, the following courses have been completed:

• “Child and Adolescent Mental Health” taught by Professor W.H.G. Wolters, Dr. Jan Ter   Laak, and Dr. Henny Lodewijks from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
• “Social Psychology” taught by Dr. Abdel Wahhab Mahjoub from Tunis Univesity in Tunisia.

In May 1998, Dr. Colin MacMullin and Dr. Maryanne Loughry from Flinders University in Australia will teach the “Communication and Counselling” course.

Other Courses

 

Course in Community Mental Health Nursing :

In January 1998, we began a new course in community mental health nursing to provide primary health care nurses with knowledge and skills in community mental health. Twenty-two male and female nurses working at primary health care clinics and general hospitals were selected to take part in this course, which will cover thirteen modules over a period of eight months.

 

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