Current Online Trainings:

This curriculum was build by the Institute for the Development of Human Arts with over 50 mental health experts from around the globe.

Classes Taught:

You’ll find me in the following lessons:

  1. Founding History of IDHA with Dr. Peter Stastny

  2. Division in the Field (Of Psychiatry)

  3. A Transformative View of Mental Health Experiences

  4. Being With Experiences Labeled Psychosis

  5. Mental Health and Chronic Illness

  6. Integrating a Transformative Mental Health Lens: Putting it Into Practice

What You’ll Learn

IDHA’s Transformative Mental Health Core Curriculum draws upon knowledge and traditions across a range of disciplines, social movements, geographies, and perspectives to advance approaches to mental health care rooted in humanity, care, and support.

Over the course of eight modules, you will be introduced to asystemic, historical analysis of mental health, including how racism, ableism, and other forms of oppression intersect with mental health;diverse narratives of lived experienceand the powerful impact of grassroots movements, past and present; a variety ofcommunity-based and peer-led practicesthat support healing; and atransformative mental health lensand how to apply it to your life and work.

 

Taught by: Jazmine Russell, Celia Brown, Issa Ibrahim, Sascha Altman DuBrul, Bradley Lewis, and Jonah Bossewitch as part of The Institute for the Development of Human Arts’ School for Transformative Mental Health

What you get

  • Access to an online portal to take the self-paced online class

  • 7 videos full of history, research, and unique perspectives (80 minutes of content)

  • 3 bonus articles written by our faculty and other leaders in the field

  • Discussion with a creative community of professionals and advocates inside the course

  • A reference and resource list to aid ongoing learning and exploration on the course topics

What you’ll learn

  • An overview of the political and social landscape that bolstered the biopsychiatric model from the 1980s until now

  • The widespread impacts of big pharma, the marketing of psychotropic medication, and cultural reforms in response

  • Alternative frameworks for understanding mental health (e.g. social, trauma-informed, and generative)

  • A brief history of the mad movement and human rights reform in mental health

  • The power of lived experience and listening to the voices of survivors of trauma and adversity