Component Evaluation: Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppression Workshops Time: 45-60 minutes Mode: In class; Online The artist shared their belief that mental health professionals should be participating in anti-oppressive and anti-racist workshops on an annual basis at the bare minimum. Yet, these workshops tend to be offered as one-offs through employers, or individuals have to seek out …
Component Exploration – the “days” Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online River is a queer trans youth who identifies as white and racialized. Their component presented is the art piece “days.” The second component is a set focus group and interview excerpts which include River’s explanation of how they created the piece, and their thoughts …
The ‘days’ Unit Takeaways Appreciate the connection between art and healing Value of the role of art as an alternative to, or combined with, mental health care Understand the importance of creative self-expression for conveying the complexity of lived experience at the intersections of madness, race, gender, and sexuality Recognize the importance of creating a …
Components: Designing Dementia Care – Self-Guided Timing: 65 Minutes Mode: In-class, Online The video footage, audio excerpts and historical photographs and documents in this unit take learners within the walls of Ontario’s first purpose-built dementia care facility in the late twentieth century. These self-guided resources are well suited for flipped classroom use with an in-class or …
Past, Present, Future Unit Takeaways Appreciate system user perspectives on mental health policy Understand relations of power in the mental health system (patient/doctor/nurse/staff) Components The components for this unit are three short plays, fictionalized accounts of mental health experiences in the past, present, and imagined future. Play 1: “But Now We Know Better” (past) Transcript …
Tools for Recovery Unit Takeaways Recognize the importance of peer support in developing coping strategies and new skill sets Value creativity and community engagement as pathways to confidence and wellbeing Acknowledge systemic barriers to recovery Component The component for this unit is a recovery memoir by community expert Margo Robinson setting out what she thinks …
Speaking to History: Mental Health Policy Unit Takeaways Understand the circumstances and ideas that informed deinstitutionalization policies and how they shaped day-to-day practice and the lives of service users Identify the ways in which restrictions and discipline characteristic of the earlier long-stay mental health hospitals have been reproduced in the bureaucratized mental health and social …
Components: Self-Guided 1 – Sterilization as Law and Practice Timing: 45 minutes Mode: In-class; online Sterilization legislation in Alberta was a legal response to broadly-held eugenicist ideas which understood the larger social good to be dependant on limiting the reproductive capacity of certain citizens. This set of historical documents and audio commentary allows students to …
Question Man Unit Takeaways Appreciate that patients may experience mental health services as oppressive and soul-destroying Understand the importance of practitioners working with patients to help reclaim strengths and strategies that were part of their identity before they experienced mental health difficulties Value voice, resiliency, resistance and experiential knowledge in supporting good mental health Component …
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