About Us

ABOUT US

We are active on the Crossroads

between ethnicity and mental health.

We aim to spread available knowledge and skills by all available digital media as well as by face to face courses and lectures

OUR APPROACH

Dissemminate available knowledge and skills on our own initiative or on demand.

We aim at practical solutions and making complex matters easier to understand

practical solutions for professionals in mental health care
Turning complex issues into solvable ones.

A lot of mental health professionals consider working with patients from other ethnic groups a big challenge.

However is is not: working with culture-sensitive skills and knowledge makes the challenge much more attainable

THE PROCESS in educational activities

STEP 1

Getting a clear picture of the goals the client wants to reach for his mental health team

STEP 2

Getting a clear picture of the state of knowledge and skills of the team-members

STEP 3

Develop an educational programme for the client and his team

STEP 4

Execute and evaluate the educational programme

OUR TEAM

Mario Braakman, psychiatrist and ethnologist

My main job is director of the Psychiatric Residency programme of Pro Persona, Mental Health. In addition to this I'm coordinating the ethnic diversity policy and in my clinical work I take care of exclusively non-western patients.

Besides this I work for EthnoPsych Consultancy in which I take care of several projects and like to spread my knowledge about ethnicity and mental health in courses and lectures.