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Make scientific knowledge practical for general clinicians and medical trainees.
Our work / Academic learning
Knowledge becomes useful when it changes practice.
Continuing education and capacity building translate psychiatric knowledge into practical, ethical and culturally responsive care.
The central idea
Education can widen the care system when specialist knowledge is made usable by the people already meeting patients.
SAWAB’s academic work includes Continuing Medical Education, training for clinicians and medical trainees, and knowledge sharing around mental-health care protocols.
The emphasis is not on information alone. Learning is connected to clinical judgement, cultural responsiveness and the practical conditions in which care must be delivered.
How the work moves
A learning continuum rather than a one-time event.
Exchange
Use continuing education as a space for evidence, experience and judgement to meet.
Build
Strengthen the wider system’s ability to recognise and respond to mental-health needs.
Recorded learning
Ideas shared beyond the classroom.
Watch the first part of this CME symposium on disaster trauma, PTSD and resilience, featuring Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Margoob.
Watch on YouTubeIn development
Self-help learning, made for real life.
Five practical manuals are being developed for the people who shape learning, family life and emotional wellbeing. Preview the collection and register for early access.
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College & university
Students
Practical guidance for emotional wellbeing, study pressures and knowing when to reach for support.Get early access
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Classroom support
Teachers
A grounded guide to recognising distress and responding with care in learning environments.Get early access
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Family guidance
Parents
Everyday tools for listening, supporting young people and opening safer conversations at home.Get early access
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Understand and respond
Anxiety
Clear, approachable learning about anxiety, coping strategies and routes to appropriate help.Get early access
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Recognise and seek support
Depression
A compassionate introduction to signs of depression, self-care and seeking timely support.Get early accessSelected evidence
Reading that connects evidence to practice.
A focused selection of original reports, studies and programme records connected to this field.
PubMed Central
Dua Ti Dawa Ti
A research record connecting psychological distress, local systems of help and service design in Kashmir.
PubMed Central
Community practices as coping mechanisms
An academic resource on culturally situated coping and community mental health.
International Journal of Emergency Mental Health
Childhood trauma and adult mental-health problems
Evidence connecting early adversity with later mental-health outcomes in a community sample from Kashmir.
ResearchGate record
One-year longitudinal study of snowstorm survivors
A teaching and research reference on longitudinal disaster mental-health follow-up.
In the public record
The work, as it was reported.
Reporting connects continuing education and practical self-help resources with the needs they are designed to meet.
Explore the full press archiveAddressing mental-health challenges in Kashmir
An overview of adolescent mental health and SAWAB's practical self-help modules for students, parents and teachers, including anxiety and depression.
AcademicYouthPublic education
One in nine elderly people has dementia in Kashmir
Coverage of a continuing medical education programme focused on earlier recognition, informed caregiving and better preparedness for dementia.
AcademicClinicalDementia
Access to mental healthcare in the community: a milestone initiative
A detailed account of the Srinagar conference that brought clinicians, public-health specialists, community leaders and NGOs into one shared agenda.
CommunityAcademicPartnership
1998–2003
Defeat Depression Programme
A strategic response to the shortage of mental-health professionals, equipping faculty, trainees and frontline doctors to recognise and manage common mental disorders.
View the programme in SAWAB’s impact storyContinue through the connected domains.
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