One Day Discussion on Developing Curriculum for Masters in Human Rights in Mental Health

Introduction
Dr Narendra about
Dr Vijayaraghavan about child psychiatry
Dr Krishnaprasad talked about his interest in providing affordable child mental health.
Dr Muralikrishna about his interest in old age mental health.
Dr Sumanth about Diabetes, Hypertension, Chronic Diseases.
Dr Manjunath about education in general, and medical education in particular.
Prof Niranjan, from University of Mysore, HoD Dept of Communication and Journalism
Dr Anilkumar about psychopharmacology, sexual medicine and spiritual psychiatry.
Dr Rajgopal about self-harm.
Dr Sushama about bipolar disorder, coercion.
Eunice Severity of cognitive impairment in age over 60.
Dr ... Old age, Alzheimer's etc.
Dr Kishore about undergraduate medical teaching.
Dr Tony Ryan? Community health services
Dr Catherine about self harm, suicide, coercion.
Dr Rob Poole social psychiatrist - substance abuse, alcohol deaths, suicide, self harm.
Dr Raveesh - legal psychiatry, ethics and human rights, including policy making.

Aims for the Day
  • Share information about collaboration
  • Hear about people's views and experiences relevant to research
  • Peer review ideas
Mysore - Bangor Collaboration

Experience and Concerns
Professional help is not received, non-professional is; and we are okay with that.
Husband is tied up by wife. Neighbours do nothing. Finally,, the paramedical staff had to find it out.
In Dargas, everyone is tied up.
Older people who are stressed out, can't openly come out because of the cultural restrictions.
Awareness, Accessibility, Affordability, Acceptability.

Sometimes children/adults do not know they are being taken to a psychiatrist, but just a family friend or someone.

What if we are barging on the caretaker's human right by not allowing him to coerce a patient into treatment citing his human right.

Coercion needs to be defined to allow for positive coercion.

Tea

Boundaries of spiritual practice in professional care.
We were asked to give a 10-word description of several clinical vignettes. Then there'd be a discussion about how we should respond to those situations.

Lunch

After lunch we're supposed to create clinical vignettes of our own. Battery running out.

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