Events

Our events range from small workshops, capacity building seminars and impact events to large scale research presentations and networking meet ups. To gain exclusive access to early registration of our events, subscribe to our SAMA newsletter.

SAMA Workshops
Jun
5

SAMA Workshops

‘Participatory Methods for Mental Health Research and Upscaling Research to Policy’ workshops

Date: Wednesday 5th June 2024

Time: 9am-5pm

Venue: Dept. of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bengaluru.

Cost: Free of charge

Who can participate? Students, researchers and professionals.

Registration: Mandatory. Link to the registration form: https://forms.gle/UmHLYFVwamaRhwGt5

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Conferences SAMA has presented at:

IACAPAP 2022 Dubai

Title: Child and adolescent mental health: Shaping the future. Dubai (5/12/22- 9/12/22)

Presentation: A symposium on Co-Producing School Based Interventions for Prevention of Adolescent Anxiety and Depression- A Whole-school Approach.

Tumkur University, India.

Title: Social Work in Education (23/2/23- 25/2/23)

Presentation: A symposium on SAMA interventions.

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru.

Title: Spaces that children occupy: The real, the virtual & the difficult...Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (16/10/23- 18/10/23)

Presentation: A symposium on Participatory Methods for Mental Health Research with Adolescents.

The Karolinska Institute and UNICEF

Title: Bold ideas for brighter futures, Stockholm.

Presentations: (1) Safeguarding Adolescent Mental Health in India: community co-production and feasibility testing of an evidence-based of a whole school mental health programme for adolescent anxiety and depression, targeting Indian adolescents, teachers, parents and school climate and (2)Towards the Cultural Validation of the RCADS-47 in Karnataka, India.

Departments of Studies, Karnataka State Open University and University of Mysore and Indian Society of Professional Social Work.

Presentation: Presentation on the participatory research methods used in SAMA.

Title: New Vistas in Social Work: Navigating the changing landscape in education, research and practice. Mysuru, Karnataka, India. (16/5/24- 18/5/24)

International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

Title: The XXVII International Congress of International Association Of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2024. Bali (5/8/24- 9/8/24)

Presentation: Presentation on Development of a culturally sensitive safeguarding protocol for school mental health research in India.

Below is a summary of our research projects activities and achievements.

Dec 2022

Parent Newsletter

The first of Project SAMAs parent newsletter is now available.

July 2022

SAMA Professional Network Event

If you missed our SAMA Professional Network event “The role of the school environment on young people’s mental health: Insights from research and practice”, you can read the post event report here that provides a summary of the event.

June 2022

SAMA Professional Network Event

If you missed our SAMA Professional Network event “what do young people want us to understand about their mental health and school? - Young people take the platform”, you can read the post event report here that provides a summary of the event.

September 2021

Project SAMA Launch Event

If you missed our SAMA launch event and want to watch it, please follow the link below:

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