The South African Mental Health Context (2nd semester)
Co-ordinator:
  • Mental health policy in South Africa
  • Mental health structures in South Africa: hospitals, community health centres, non-governmental organisations
  • A selection from the following priority areas; women and mental health: violence against women, sexually transmitted diseases, poverty and women
  • Mental illness and mental health services: schizophrenia, emotional disorders, anxiety disorders
  • Children and mental health: orphans, street children, violence against children
  • Adolescents and mental health: substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases
  • The aged and mental health: poverty and old age, violence against the aged, emotional disorders
  • HIV/AIDS and mental health
  • Violence and mental health
  • Poverty and mental health
  • Racial discrimination and mental health.