Ariqueño students from Santo Tomás were able to reflect on public policies and mental health research.
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Communications of the Santo Tomás University, together with the Academic Pedagogical Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Villa María, the College of Psychologists Delegation of Villa María and the College of Professionals in Social Service of the Province of Córdoba Villa María Headquarters, held the “International Seminar and Workshop on Mental Health and Wellbeing: Reflections from Argentina and Chile.”
First-year students of the Social Work Program within the framework of the subject Fundamentals of Social Work, participate in this International Seminar, where they were able to reflect on public policies and research in mental health in Argentina and Chile, as well as the development of the workshop with students from Villa María University in hybrid format.
A total of 4 presentations were presented by prominent professionals in the area of mental health. These were Public Welfare Policies in Chile, led by Doctor Sandra Leiva, who is a member of the UST Doctoral Faculty in Psychological and Social Welfare Studies.
Dr. Nelson Valdés also presented the paper Social Determinants of Mental Health: Inequalities and Vulnerabilities, also a member of the faculty of the Doctorate in Psychological and Social Welfare Studies at UST.
From Argentina, Dr. Rebeca Cena spoke, presenting Social Policies and the Dispute for the Welfare of Argentina. Limits and Challenges of Approaching the Social in the 21st CENTURY.
Concluding the presentations was the turn of Specialist Silvana Pons, who is President of the College of Psychologists, regional delegation A, of Villa María, Argentina.
Carlos Rueda, a first-year social work student, stated that “the talk was quite productive, with its technical complexities, but in itself it was like an equally big challenge for us because we are first-year students and, moreover, we are the first generation to is going to leave the daytime session, so we were facing people who knew, perhaps, much more than us and of course we felt we represented the Arica headquarters and in that sense I think we did well and we all took away a very important lesson for the House”.
