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| London Bilingual Mental Health Advocacy Course |
| This Course is particularly suitable if you have worked as a mental health advocate/interpreter or health interpreter/advocate with some knowledge of mental health issues. It aims to provide training in these issues including legislation, terminology, cultural aspects of mental health services as well as advocacy skills to support and empower users. |
| This course will concentrate in six themes: |
- Concepts and definitions of mental distress and disorder
- The structure of the UK Mental Health Services
- Cultural differences in experiencing mental distress
- Language of distress, diagnosis and treatment
- Mental health and the law
- Skills, practices and ethics
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| This course will recruit and train 10 volunteers to accompany non English-speaking Chinese who suffer from mental illness to doctors’ surgeries and hospitals. Bi-lingual Health Advocates will not only act as interpreters, but also to empower the patients to speak their mind, express their concern and to obtain the level of service otherwise denied to them due to the language and cultural differences. |
| Weekly training sessions will begin in early October 2004. The course runs for about 20 weeks after which the trainees will have an option to seek employment as qualified Mental Health Advocates or to stay with us as volunteers. We offer our volunteers ongoing support, training and opportunities for professional and personal development. |
| We aim to make the London Mental Health Advocacy service available free of charge at our London centre from early 2005 onwards. |
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