Community Mental Health Organisation

Degree: 1
Year: 4
Study program: Social work

Holder: Vera Grebenc
Collaborator(s): Monika Bohinec

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Subject content:
  • Community mental health policies.
  • Legislation and mental health.
  • Human rights and mental health.
  • Inclusion into the community.
  • The development and problems of deinstitutionalisation.
  • Project organisation.
  • Teamwork in mental health.
  • Promoting innovation and creativity in solutions for personal and organisational problems and distress.
  • Residential groups: structural solutions, organisational problems, methods of work.
  • Clubs, day centres and user meeting points.
  • Looking for and providing paid work.
  • User education and professional training.
  • Quality spending of one’s free time.
  • Community mental health centres.
  • Crisis centres.
  • Community mental health teams.
  • Advocacy.
  • Advocacy work in Slovenia.
  • Function and processes of self-help.
  • The role of experts in self-help.
  • Survivors.
  • The importance of informal livelihood practises for a socially and ecologically just society.
  • The right for selfcare.
  • How self-help groups are organised.
  • Users' organisation – political activity.
  • Active participation in media representation.