The Department has knowledge and expertise on health promotion and treatment in a broad sense of the mental health field. We are dealing with basic research, applied research, epidemiology and clinical research in our fields of expertise. The close collaboration between St. Olavs hospital, municipal health services and central and local child welfare services creates appropriate conditions for clinical research. The department include a national national competence centre, National Institute on Intellectual Disability and Community, NAKU, and a Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, RKBU Central Norway, with dedicated funding and tasks like support and quality enhancement of the public services.

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Department of Mental Health educate Bachelor students in social education, master's and postgraduate students in mental health work and we educate medical- and doctoral students (PhD). We also offer training without credits for employees in the services.

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We are about 180 employees and we are part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MH) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The Department of Mental Health is organized in three research units and severeal centres.