Spreading and increasing knowledge mainly in the field of community care, psychiatric rehabilitation and the whole spectrum of new methods (team work, case management etc.) is one of CMHCD‘s goals. The target group includes mental health care professionals - doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, work therapists as well as users and their family members.
Education of specialists in the field of community care and the development of the Centre for Mental Health Care Development team (2007 - 2008)
The project is financed by the European Social Fund, the Czech government and the Prague municipal government.
Content of the project is the education of a team in an organization that supports the process of psychiatric care tranformation toward community care. Education will be promoted in three areas: pedagogical, specialist and management skills. Education will take place in the form of educational seminars and workshops, international exchanges, participation in international conferences, studying international and on-line maganizes.
Life-long education for nurses in the field of rehabilitation and field work in psychiatry (2005 - 2007) The project is financed by the European Social Fund, the Czech government and the Prague municipal government.
The goal of the project is to create and test try an educational programme for psychiatric nurses in the field of rehabilitation, field work, case management and crisis intervention. The project will result in working out teaching materials for an educational module and trained teachers who will teach the programme. In 2005 the project included a research of psychiatric nurses‘ educational needs and establishing of a working group, which creates an educational module.
Psycho RES.C.U.E. - Psychiatric residential care and increasing skills and competences of a community worker (2005 - 2007)
This project includes creation of a structure of an educational module for community workers (focusing on housing support). This module should be used in the context of the European Union taking into consideration specific situations in particular member countries. Besides CMHCD the project includes further five organizations from Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland, Greece and Latvia.
In 2005 the project included a research of development and the current situation in mental health care in the Czech Republic. For more information see: www.psychorescue.org.
The project is supported by Leonardo da Vinci Programme.
East to East Programme (1997 - 2006) Within the framework of the East to East programme and support of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry (the Netherlands) CMHCD continued to cooperate in educating professionals from Eastern and Central Europe. The programme enables those professionals who are interested in changing mental health care in their countries focusing on clients and community services to visit the Czech Republic and get acquainted with its psychiatry system. The East to East programme also included further projects focusing on community care facilities in Lithuania (2002 – 2003) and reforming mental health care in Sverdlovsk (Russia) (2001 – 2003). In 2005 experts from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Romania participated in the educational programme.
Care for patients with serious mental disorder at a general practitioner (2006) A training course designed for general practitioners in Prague was implemented during the project period. The aim was to covey special knowledge needed for the work with mentally ill, especially to admit them, register them, co-operate on their treatment efficiently and to communicate with their families. Emphasis was on early diagnostics of mental disorders (especially in schizophrenic and depressive conditions) and the model of community care for the mentally ill. The project implementation helped in the prevention of mental disorders and negative phenomena (suicides, homelessness, alcoholism, etc.) because of the general practitioner is often the first to recognize early symptoms of mental disorders or repeated worsening of a patient’s condition.
The project was supported by the Czech Ministry of Health.
Treatment of schizophrenic patients at general practitioner (2005) CMHCD carried out a cycle of seminars for general practitioners. The goal of the seminars was to inform physicians about issues related to serious mental illnesses, including their emergence, course and treatment. The knowledge will make it easier for practitioners to examine mentally ill patients, participate in their treatment and provide them with their own treatment. The total of six lectures were always visited by more than 20 students. As part of the project participators submitted a questionnaire evaluating diagnostic and therapeutic methods.
Partners of the project included the Ministry of Health and the Union of General Practitioners of the Czech Republic.
Matra III - Development of client-oriented mental health care through a comprehensive educational programme (2003 - 2005) This project carried out in cooperation with RINO Institute and NSPOH (the Dutch School of Public Health) supports humanization and deinstitutionalization of mental health care in the Czech Republic through development of an education system. Educational modules focus on case management, psychiatric rehabilitation, work with users‘ families, crisis intervention, community psychiatry, care management, relations and communication with clients. The modules were created by 50 experts and 35 teachers.
The project was financed from the MATRA programme sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Health care preventing crime (2001 - 2004) The research study focused on health care preventing crime and defining methods for doing this. One of the main parts of the project was devoted to protection of children and senior citizens from violence. The three-years-long project resulted in post-gradual education modules explaining problems related to violence and abuse of children. The project was supported by the Czech Ministry of Health.
CMHCD in cooperation with GGZ Netherlands and STORM, another Dutch organization, organized educational programmes aimed at educating professionals working in sheltered housing and psychosocial rehabilitation (1997 - 2002).
