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EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES Advocate mental health through conferences, seminar-workshops, school-based mental health clubs, programs on youth development and parenting, mental health community-based program, tri-media, research, and library services. Programs and Services Education and Information Dissemination - Conducts trainings, seminars, workshops, and conferences to professionals, parents, caregivers, and mental health advocates on different and current mental health issues. - Spearheads the celebration of National Mental Health Week and World Mental Health Day every October. Lecture/Workshop Looking for mental health professional for your trainings, seminars, and conferences? We can help you. We have a roster of experts in the field of mental health who can serve as your resource person in your upcoming program. For more information, click here Agency Visit You are most welcome to visit PMHA! Participants will be given an orientation on PMHA programs and services and a tour of the office to see PMHA facilities. The will be also given an opportunity to interact with the clients. Interested parties may also submit letter of request to the National
Executive Director at least two (2) weeks before the scheduled
date of visit. - Mental health materials such as brochures, flyers, leaflets, and posters are distributed to professionals, partner agencies, students, and other members of the community. - The Association has a bi-annual newsletter FOCUS on
MENTAL HEALTH, which is given to its regular members
and benefactors. Articles on current trends, issues and latest
researches on mental health are published in this newsletter. The Associate Editor YOUTH LIFE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM Lusog Isip ng Kabataan (LINK) CLUB - Train Filipino youths towards responsible leadership with a
strong commitment to promote the cause of mental health in their
own families and respective communities - Regular attendance to lectures and seminars - A school-based mental health club composed of different psychological
societies of various colleges/universities in the Philippines. 
- Established strong linkages with the psychological society
of different colleges and universities in Metro Manila 
- Must be recognized organized group of psychology students in their respective schools (Psychology Society) - Membership application from duly accomplished and signed by a representative (society adviser or officers) of the psychological society (click here to download) - Affiliation fee - Regular attendance to fora and other activities of PSAMH Creative Approach to Parenting (CAP) CAP aims to train participants-trainers on alternative approach to parenting.
- A specialized library that serves as a home to varied resource materials such as books, journals and documentaries in the field of psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychosocial rehabilitation and other mental health topics. - The library is open to PMHA members, Mondays to Fridays from
9:00 to 5:00 p.m. - Aims to provide evidence-based information through its conduct of research that will serve as a basis for policy and program development of the Association as well as partner agencies in government and non-government organization. - Research studies conducted by the association: The study showed the significance of psychosocial intervention in the treatment and rehabilitation of mental health consumers (psychiatric patients). This paper described and reported the progress made by mental health consumers who have attended the psychoeducation program at the Philippine Mental Health Association. Family Adaptation to Mental Illness: Burden and Resilience in Care Giving (2006) The study identified the demands for caring a mentally ill member, capabilities (resources and coping behaviors) utilized by the family to adapt to the demands of caring for a mentally ill member and meanings the family attributes to mental illness and to its capabilities in adopting to it. Mental Health Situation of Adolescents in Selected Public High Schools in the Philippines (2007) The study described the overall mental health situation of adolescents in three selected public high schools in different cities in the Philippines. The study also revealed what the adolescents perceived as their mental health concerns. |
- A student mental health club organized for the public high schools
since 1975
Psychological Societies Association on Mental Health (PSAMH)
- Aims
to promote and strengthen the mental health advocacy programs
in communities especially among the grass roots level by integrating
mental health into the social milieu through the regular conduct
of lecture-fora, training on parenting, and participation in the
buffer group program of the PMHA Work Center
Library