What lessons can we take from the COVID-19 pandemic to approach mental health from a biopsychosocial perspective?

1. Discuss why it is relevant to consider ethnic differences when understanding and addressing Mental Health.

2. Considering the authors reviewed in class, what can be discussed about the social and cultural dimensions of suffering?

3. Discuss why Migration can be considered as a Social Determinant of Mental Health.

4. Based on the problems analyzed in the readings and considering your perspective, which psychosocial interventions could help improve migrants’ and refugees’ mental health in the transit and host countries?

5. What lessons can we take from the COVID-19 pandemic to approach mental health from a biopsychosocial perspective?