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10th WORLD CONGRESS OF WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH
5-8 MARCH 2025
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES (NIMHANS) CONVENTION CENTRE, BENGALURU, INDIA

PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 13
Mental health care package for survivors of violence against women in low-resource settings.
Facilitators
Afternoon workshop (01pm to 4pm)

Dr Alexis Palfreyman
Centre for Impact on Violence and Health (CIVAH) and
University CollegeLondon,
Bio
Dr Palfreyman is an interdisciplinary researcher and suicidologist focused on bridging research and practice in perinatal and global mental health, suicidology, violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Since 2011, she has worked with women and families around Sri Lanka affected by self-harm and interpersonal violence. She’s the Founder and Director of the Centre for Impact on Violence and Health and an Honorary Research Fellow with University College London, where she teaches and supervises undergraduate, medical and postgraduate learners.
Workshop Background:
Women survivors of violence face substantial harms to their mental health, but their advocates lack guidance on how to support their wellbeing and address psychological distress through context-appropriate interventions. In this workshop, our transdisciplinary group from Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, and UK will summarise our process developing survivor- and provider-responsive care packages in South Asia, with a focus on Sri Lanka’s resource for community-based services. Participants will have an opportunity to consider possibilities for developing care packages or similar in their own contexts.
Eligibility
Participants should ideally be in roles encountering women survivors of violence and/or interested in service development and capacity strengthening of providers responsible for supporting survivors in their day-to-day work. Clinical mental health backgrounds are not required.
Maximum Participants-35
35 participants
Objectives
1. To become familiar with intervention components relevant to improving women survivors’ mental health
2. To critically reflect on the process and challenges of reconciling global evidence on ‘what works’ with local priorities and capacities in lower resource settings
3. To trial activities valuable to our design process and experience learning strategies of the Sri Lanka support package
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