Between 2004 and 2006, QTMHC conducted regular seminars on the perspectives CALD communities have about mental health and mental illness. The seminars were presented by members of the communities who are supported and resourced in this role by staff at QTMHC. Seminar presenters covered historical and cultural aspects such as communication, religious and acculturation issues and more specifically focussed on pre-migration and post-migration mental health risk and protective factors and cultural explanatory models of mental illness, utilisation of mental health services and treatments. Most seminars have reached out to regional areas via video-conferencing and were video-recorded.
Copies of videos are available for loan from the QTMHC’s Resource Library. The cultural communities covered to date were:
To borrow a copy of the videos of the above cultural seminars, please contact Penny D'Ath on (07) 3167 8333 or penny_dath@health.qld.gov.au.
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