This session explores practical and educational approaches to teaching and applying trauma-informed, person-centred care in the context of displacement, conflict, and humanitarian crisis. The panel includes clinicians, educators, legal professionals, and human rights advocates representing leading international programmes in psychiatry, law, and humanitarian response. Drawing on experience from North America, the United Kingdom, and global health systems, the session highlights shared principles that connect trauma recovery, human rights, and education across disciplines.
Speakers will discuss the integration of neuroscientific, ethical, and social frameworks into the training of mental health professionals and allied fields. Topics include developing culturally responsive and legally informed teaching methods, embedding trauma-informed education into healthcare systems, and strengthening collaboration between psychiatry, law, and humanitarian organisations. The session will also explore how education can support moral leadership, prevent compassion fatigue, and enhance clinician wellbeing in high-stress environments.
Delegates will gain practical strategies for translating human rights principles, cultural humility, and trauma-informed approaches into clinical care and teaching. The session supports continuing professional development by fostering ethical awareness, resilience, and culturally competent practice when caring for individuals and communities affected by displacement and crisis.
Together, the panellists, representing psychiatry, legal advocacy, medical education, and human rights leadership, illustrate how global, educational, and rights-based frameworks can transform mental health care and training, strengthening compassionate and equitable systems of care worldwide.
Learning objectives
In this webinar you will:
- explore practical methods for teaching and applying trauma-informed, person-centred care in contexts of displacement, conflict, and humanitarian crisis
- learn how to integrate human rights principles, cultural humility, and ethical leadership into clinical education and mental health practice across diverse settings
- gain insight into global approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration between psychiatry, law, and humanitarian response that strengthen compassionate and equitable systems of care.
Speakers
Chair: Professor Subodh Dave, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London
Professor Subodh Dave, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London
Professor Piyal Sen, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London
Dr Sofia Matta, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Professor Dennis Ougrin, Queen Mary University of London, London
Availability
This webinar is part of the Congress webinar 2026 package. If you attended all four days of Congress, you will have access to these as part of your Congress package. Otherwise the Congress webinar 2026 package can be purchased below.
