Mental Health & Psychology Experience

Updated: March 02, 2024 04:47 PM GMT

Volunteer Job in Ejisu, Ashanti Region

Our Generation Voluntary Organisation

Ejisu, Ghana

If you are willing to gain an insight and awareness into mental health in a new environment and culture then this programs aims to provide you with such an opportunity to do so within a community setting. Please note this program has been specially designed to those already studying or looking to further study psychology / mental health and may not be appropriate or applicable to those outside this.

1904 adage the first purposeful psychiatric hospital built in Ghana accommodating about 200 patients to start with. Despite ongoing expansions being made to the hospital in the years onwards from this, frequent overcrowding remained a continuing issue.

Ghana’s mental health sector is funded mainly by the government. Its psychiatric services stem back to the early 19th century where patients who suffered from mental health illnesses would be detained in prisons. This slowly developed into a ‘lunatic asylum’ created under legislation passed in 1888 that would see those suffering with... More Detail