Professional Training
Within our international support and cooperation projects, we attach fundamental value to professional training of local staff, thus guaranteeing long term sustainability to the projects and that local community members develop full awareness of mental illness-related issues.
In Italy, Cittadinanza organizes professional training courses in order to provide health workers and international volunteers with specific know-how and expertise, with the aim of making qualified human resources capable to develop sound mental health projects in low income countries and in situations of dire poverty.
Our training courses
“International Cooperation in Mental Health” – Rimini, April–June 2006
Organized in collaboration with WHO, this course was addressed to mental health workers (Psychiatrists, Infant Neuropsychiatrists, Psychologists, Professional Nurses, Therapists, Social Workers and Educators) and to international cooperation workers with the aim of:
• providing the participants with the scientific knowledge, expertise and operational tools necessary to develop, monitor and assess mental health projects in low income countries;
• training mental health workers to be involved in Cittadinanza’s international cooperation projects or in other NGOs or humanitarian and development agencies’ activities.
Cooperazione Internazionale in Salute Mentale (pdf only Italian)
“Health, Mental Health, Immigration”
Cittadinanza, in collaboration with CARITAS and AUSL Rimini (local public health services), has undertaken a training programme addressed to local health and social workers, psychologists and sociologists, with the following formative goals:
• specific training on medicine of migrations;
• training on relationships in transcultural medicine.
After a first pilot training module hold in February-March 2003, the full programme will be implemented beginning from 2009 and will include:
Module I: Medicine of migrations
Module II: The infant-maternal domain
Module III: Etnopsychiatry and psycotraumatology
