The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness

Overview

Learn how social factors promote mental health, influence the onset and course of mental illness, and affect how mental illnesses are diagnosed and treated.
This course explores how our understanding of mental health and illness has been influenced by social attitudes and social developments in North America and around the world. The course begins by situating our contemporary mental health practices in historical context, then looks at different aspects of mental health, mental illness and mental health services and their connections to what’s going on in our social environment.

Taught by Charmaine Williams 

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 Coursera

 Free Online Course

 English

 Paid Certificate Available

 S6 weeks long, 14 hours worth of material

 26th Jun,2023

  Arabic, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, English, Spanish