Over the past several years, the IIHA has run a popular 12-day course largely for mental health professionals. We will now be offering a distance learning course covering similar materials over a 15-week semester. This is a training course for mental health professionals and program staff who wish to establish mental health or psychosocial programs in a humanitarian context within conflict and post-conflict areas. This course is also open to Fordham graduate students in humanitarian studies or other relevant disciplines. It will aim to provide practical orientation and training, including how to conduct rapid assessments, designing and setting up mental health services or psychosocial programs (exploring the differences between them), and clinical work and therapeutic approaches in non-Western contexts. It will address the issues of cultural validity, conflict resolution and negotiation, taking care of oneself and dealing with burnout. This course will also introduce potential field workers to essentials such as personal security, logistics, and practical aspects of humanitarian work in the field. The instructors for this course will be Lynne Jones, Larry Hollingworth, Pieter Ventevogel, and Willem van de Put.
When taking the course for a Certificate of Completion, students must pay the fee of $915 and fulfill the course requirements described in the syllabus. Upon completion of the requirements, students will receive a Certificate of Completion from Fordham University.
How to register
To apply to an Online Humanitarian Training Course:
- Create an application
- Select "Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs"
- Select Online Humanitarian Training Course
- Select credit option
- Select online course or courses
For all registration inquiries, please connect with Ellen Bratina, IIHA International Programs Officer, at miha@fordham.edu.
