The Department of Education is a part of The Psychiatric Services, The County of Aarhus, and the Psychiatric Services are affiliated to Aarhus University Hospital. Director of Education is Kerstin Bäck Moeller. Areas of expertise for the Psychiatric Services: Delivery of hospital and community services; linkage of acute in-patient and community services; risk factors in psychiatric hospitalisation; analysis of acute care hospital and community service needs ; multicentre collaborative research; compulsory use of admission for dual diagnosis clients, design and delivery of training programmes.

Training Resources

Besides these EU-programs the Department is responsible for about 100 various training courses and programs for staff and other partners in the mental health field in the County of Aarhus, as well as for institutions nationwide and for instance the Faeroe Islands, besides participating in other regional and international research projects.

Current Research Issuses

The Department of Education has experience with taking part in several EU-projects. The first project dealt with training og education activities about violence and violence prevention. The second one was a multicenter project with 6 partners  about Occupational Stress with Mental Health Clients in Acute Response (OSCAR) where an important part concerns construction of  training programmes on an EU basis. The third EU-program, where the department was coordinator for the whole program with 7 partners, dealt with Integrated Services Aimed at Dual Diagnosis patients (ISADORA). This program was among other things concerned with design, development and implementation of the training intervention and training program for staff dealing with those dual diagnosis patients. During the last five years the Department has been responsible for a project concerning the employment of users as employees in the Psychiatric Services.  To help them manage their jobs we offer them a training program. We have employed 12 “user teachers” in the Department and they lecture on almost all of our courses, where they contribute with their own specific experiences. The Psychiatric Services in the County of Aarhus also employe user evaluators in psychiatric projects countrywide.

User Partner Organisations

FAP (Association of Mental Health users , Aarhus branch) Skovagervej 2, 8240  Risskov mail: fap.aarhus@get2net.dk SIND (Association of Mental Health users, Aarhus branch) Skolebakken 17, 8000  Århus C mail:sindaarhus@os.dk