Exercise In Developing A Mental Health Intervention

Culture and Mental Health

Assessment: Exercise in developing a mental health intervention

You are working for a mental health organisation and your task is develop and design a trauma therapeutic intervention in a post-conflict setting of your choice. The methodology and details of your trauma therapeutic intervention must be explained with clear indication of who the trauma-affected population is that you are targeting. Some pointers: It is important to specify and explain the following: the conflict and the setting for the intervention. For example, where will your intervention be implemented - in a refugee camp, city, and within that, is it in a clinic or at home, or somewhere else? Who is doing the intervening? Do they come from the same cultural background as the patient(s)/ participant(s), or not? If not, which background are you expecting they will come from? In order to justify the design of your mental health
intervention, critically reflect on the role of the cultural background of both the care giver and care receiver on the response to traumatic stress.

Word Limit: 2000 words