Introducing the Program

The Specialised Qualifying Program in Mental Health is a graduate level correspondence course for helping professionals.

Helping professionals may therefore enrol in the program. In contrast to simplifying everyday usage, helping professions are understood to include all occupations that are aimed at supporting, developing, educating, sustaining, medically treating others or taking care of them or helping them in any other way. The program offers no fundamentally new professional identity. In other words, the aim is not to acquire a new "trade" or profession. Our graduates will not have a second career but become teachers, doctors, social workers, ministers of the church and other leaders with special knowledge of mental health.

The goal is develop a complex (metal health oriented) set of approaches, knowledge base, aptitudes and skills, with the help of which graduates of the program can continue their original helping profession in a wider context more efficiently and consciously. They become "better" teachers, ministers of the church, doctors, nurses, social workers by their increased psychosocial competence. They can approach problems form different sides and reflect on them from a variety of angles. Their reflectivity improves, and their scope of action increases. They become more open to, and better prepared for, cooperation with, and development of, human services. They can thus articulate how to do better what they are already doing. The goal is to generate positive change primarily in their own field of activity. Mental health thus does not stop at words; mental health is action theory.

Consequently, key concepts of the specialised program include development of knowledge of self and society, professional development and development of the professional persona, burnout prevention, interdisciplinary cooperation, observing boundaries, helping relationship, spontaneous and professional communal supporting network, prevention, value and culture, empathy, responsibility, credibility, and an integrated and conscious mode of operation.

Information about the Specialised Program in Mental Health:

Márta Calin managing officer
Tel.: +36 1 459 1500 x 5081, +36 1 266 0878
E-mail: calin@mental.usn.hu