The Meeting of Selves - A Decolonizing Approach to Mental Health

Course overview

This webinar discusses aspects of decolonizing mental health including, but not limited to, holes within the theoretical frameworks of mental health, a practice called 'birth alerts', and the Manitoba child welfare system's disproportionately indigenous population. This webinar is presented by Dr. Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn, with the University of Calgary. Dr. Lacerda-Vandenborn's research focuses on philosophical and theoretical ideas about the self; how these are interpreted and translated into social institutional practices, beliefs, and legislation and the social implications associated with them.