QualityRights in Mental Health
WHOA
About QualityRights
WHO’s QualityRights initiative aims to improve the quality of care in mental health and related services and to promote and protect the rights of all people accessing services.
About This Course
This course is self-paced, interactive and dynamic with different types of learning materials, as well as discussion forums where you can exchange experiences, ask questions and learn from each other.
It consists of the following six modules, which can be completed in any order:
- Module 1: Human rights
- Module 2: Human Rights, mental health and disability
- Module 3: Legal capacity and the right to decide
- Module 4: Ending coercion, violence and abuse
- Module 5: Quality services and community inclusion
- Module 6: Mental health, well-being and recovery
Who is this course for?
Developed to be an inclusive training experience, this training is open to all - the workforce of the health, social care and other sectors, policy makers, civil society actors, people with lived experience of mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, families and the wider community.
What will you learn?
This training will help you:
- Understand and improve your own mental health and wellbeing
- Learn how to support friends, family & members of the community who experience mental health difficulties.
- Gain the knowledge and skills to tackle stigma, discrimination, abuses & coercive practices.
- Learn how to provide mental health support to people with a mental health condition or experiencing a crisis.
- Learn how to actively engage people in their own treatment, care and support plan, providing tools & empowering them to overcome challenges.
- Gain valuable expertise & skills to lead reform towards a person-centred, rights-based, recovery approach.
Assessment and Award
You will receive a WHO Academy Award of Completion once you have successfully completed all six modules.You will also receive a WHO Award of Completion for each of the modules completed successfully.
These awards are saved in your “My Achievements” space and can be downloaded and shared.
Learning experience
This course is self-paced, interactive and dynamic with different types of learning materials including quizzes, videos, factsheets as well as discussion forums where you can exchange experiences, ask questions and learn from each other. The training consists of the following six modules:
- Module 1: Human rights
- Module 2: Human Rights, mental health and disability
- Module 3: Legal capacity and the right to decide
- Module 4: Ending coercion, violence and abuse
- Module 5: Quality services and community inclusion
- Module 6: Mental health, well-being and recovery
This training was developed by the World Health Organization Policy, law and human rights Unit, Geneva, Switzerland, with important contributions from many experts. For example, people with lived experience, mental health practitioners, human rights experts, NGOs, disabled people organizations and other advocates. It is a hosted training on the WHO Academy.