After completing the course the student will be able to
- locate social psychiatric research in the domain of public health research
- describe the present state of two specific fields in social psychiatry
- discuss current challenges and action plans for local and global mental health promotion
- describe the Finnish system for tertiary prevention of mental disorders or the corresponding system in the country of the student’s origin
- find information about NGOs in the mental health domain and be able to describe the input of these in mental health promotion

The course will be mostly online, aside the literature exam or participation in an additional module and writing a learning diary.

Course structure (mandatory):

15.1.2014-24.1.2014: Participants will review a recorded lecture in moodle and answer to questions based on it.

23.2.2014: Deadline for the course essay, predefined subjects and sources.

7.3.2014: Deadline for commenting essays of other students in moodle.

In addition you must pass a literature exam during the spring semester (Sartorius et al. (eds.) 2002: Psychiatry in society ). One can also pass the literature exam with a learning diary, but this must be discussed with the teacher (Sari Fröjd).

It is possible to replace the literature exam with a learning diary that you will write from participating in social psychiatry post-graduate module on 10.4.2014 (teaching only in finnish!).

The course will be mostly Moodle based.