Harvard Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery 2025 (Videos + Slides PDFs)

Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery 2025 explores trauma care, cultural approaches, recovery and clinician self-care. This listing provides videos and slide PDFs.

The curriculum addresses the mental health needs of traumatized patients and communities, with training topics for health care practitioners, humanitarian relief workers and policy planners. These files do not include enrollment in the original certificate program.

Mission and Learning Objectives

The curriculum brings scientific and cultural approaches to trauma recovery, with attention to disability, resilience and care for survivors of violence and disasters.

The original program’s learning objectives include:

• Integrate science, culture, and evidence-based knowledge and practices in policy planning, clinical care, humanitarian, and human rights activities.
• Implement and use advances in the neurosciences and cultural knowledge of the clinical care of traumatized persons, their families, and communities.
• Define effective scientific approaches for the care of survivors of extreme violence and climate change.
• Analyze the important historical scientific and evaluation approaches to the care of survivors of trauma.
• Apply professional development and ethics in working with vulnerable populations.
• Understand the impact of trauma on the bio-psycho-social and spiritual state of survivors of trauma.
• Learn methods for self-care.