The document discusses strategies to promote mental health for women in celebration of International Women's Day. It outlines approaches at the individual, community, and national levels. At the individual level, it discusses prevention through mental health promotion and actual intervention strategies. At the community level, it proposes staging mental health interventions through prevention, early identification of issues, and promoting physical and mental well-being. At the national level, it mentions surveys, policies, services, and awareness campaigns to address issues like violence against women and trafficking.

1. MENTAL
HEALTH
Promotion and Practice
Strategies
in celebration of
International Women s
Year (2019)
BEYOND GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT, A WOMAN S PATH
BEYOND GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
DEPT OF EDUCATION REGION 7 AND ECOTECH PROGRAM
INITIATIVE
MILEN SANTIAGO RAMOS MA. MSc PhD
PSYCHSERV,, Phils.
Clinical Psychology – Neuroscience –
Criminology

3. Pinay women s
journey pathway on
mental health

4. Mental Health Law (Republic Act 11036)
proposes a
mental health policy that aims
to enhance integrated mental
health services,
the promotion of mental health
services,
protection of people who use said
services, and
the establishment of a Philippine mental
health council.

5. The bill, otherwise known as the
proposed “Comprehensive Mental
Health Act,” aims to
ensure a community of Filipinos who are
mentally healthy, able to contribute to the
development of the country and attain a better
quality of life
through access to an integrated, well-planned,
effectively organized, and efficiently delivered
mental health care system
that responds to the people’s mental health
needs in equity with their physical health
needs

7. on
March 8, 2004
creation
of
RA 9262
An Act Defining Violence Against Women and
Their Children, Providing Protective
Measures for Victims, Prescribing Penalties
Therefor and for Other Purposes

8. A 2008 NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY (NDHS)
CONDUCTED BY NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE (NSO) WITH WOMEN
PARTICIPANTS AGED 15–49 YEARS OLD FOUND OUT THAT
ONE IN FIVE WOMEN HAVE EXPERIENCED PHYSICAL ABUSE FROM THEIR HUSBANDS,
AND
4% OF THESE WOMEN HAVE EXPERIENCED SUCH ACT OF VIOLENCE DURING THEIR
PREGNANCY.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COMMITTED TO WOMEN WHO ARE WIDOWED OR SEPARATED
MIGHT ALSO BE THE REASON OF THEIR SEPARATION OR ANNULMENT. THESE WOMEN
WERE NOT EXEMPTED FROM EXPERIENCING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS ONE IN TWENTY
FIVE OF THE PARTICIPANTS WERE FORCED TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE ON THEIR FIRST EVER SEXUAL EXPERIENCEWHILE;
ONE IN TEN EXPERIENCED SEXUAL ABUSE.
THE MOST COMMON TYPES OF SPOUSAL VIOLENCE, APART FROM PHYSICAL AND
SEXUAL VIOLENCE, WERE EMOTIONAL AND OTHER FORMS OF NON-PERSONAL
VIOLENCE.
AS A RESULT, ONE IN THREE WOMEN HAVE REPORTED TO THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR
EXPERIENCE OF VIOLENCE WITH MARKS OF TRAUMA LEFT BY THEIR PHYSICAL
INJURIES.
ABOUT 10% ARE HAUNTED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL SCARS, AS THREE IN FIVE
ABUSED WOMEN ARE LEFT WITH DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND ANGER WHICH COULD
DEVELOP INTO THEIR ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

9. Additionally, according to RA 9262:
SECTION 8. Protection Orders.- A protection order is an order issued
under this act for the purpose of preventing further acts of violence
against a woman or her child specified in Section 5 of this Act and
granting other necessary relief. The relief granted under a protection
order serve the purpose of safeguarding the victim from further
harm, minimizing any disruption in the victim's daily life, and
facilitating the opportunity and ability of the victim to
independently regain control over her life. The provisions of the
protection order shall be enforced by law enforcement agencies. The
protection orders that may be issued under this Act are the barangay
protection order (BPO), temporary protection order (TPO) and
permanent protection order (PPO). The protection orders that may
be issued under this Act shall include any, some or all of the following
reliefs

10. FORMS OF ABUSE IN ADULTS
Abuse can take many forms. It can include:
.

11. Physical abuse such as hitting, pushing, pinching, shaking,
misusing medication, ; withholding food or drink; force-
feeding ,scalding, restraint and hair pulling, ; failing to
provide physical care and aids to living.

15. PROTECTION ORDERS
when physical abuse is extreme
temporary
permanen
even in the absence of a decree of legal
separation or annulment or declaration of absolute
nullity of marriage.

16. Sexual abuse such as rape, sexual assault, or sexual
acts to which the person has not or could not have
consented, or pressurising someone into sexual acts
they don’t unders tand or feel powerless to refuse.

18. Psychological or emotional abuse such as threats of
harm or abandonment, being deprived of social or any other
form of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling,
intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse and being
prevented from receiving services or support

20. TYPES OF EMOTIONAL ABUSE
REJECTING : Putting down a woman s worth or
putting down their needs
IGNORING: Failing to give any response to or interact
at all
ISOLATING: Keeping a child away from family and
friends
TERRORIZING: causing a woman to be terrified by
the constant use of threats and/or intimidating
behavior
CORRUPTING: encouraging a woman to do things
that are illegal or harmful to themselves
EXPLOITING: giving responsibilities that are far
greater than what she can handle. Or using the
person for profit

21. Financial or material abuse such as theft, fraud or
exploitation, pressure in connection with wills, property, or
inheritance, misuse of property, possessions or benefits.

25. Neglect such as ignoring medical or physical care needs and
preventing access to health, social care or educational services
or withholding the necessities of life such as food, drink and
heating , or failing to ensure adequate supervision or exposing a
person to unacceptable risk.

28. Discriminatory abuse such as that based on race or
sexuality or , harassment, /slurs / maltreatment because of
someone’s race, gender, disability, age, faith, culture, or
sexual orientation

30. How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts
Patients
In August 2018 officials from Tokyo Medical
University admitted to systematically altering
medical school admission test scores to
disadvantage female applicants. Since 2006 the
university had been subtracting points from all exam
scores, then adding up to 20 points to those of male
applicants, with the explicit goal of reducing the
percentage of women entering medical school. (The
percentage of enrollees who were women had
reached 40% in 2010, and now stands at
approximately 30%.)

32. Institutional abuse can sometimes happen in residential
homes, nursing homes or hospitals when people are
mistreated because of poor or inadequate care, neglect
and poor practice that affects the whole of that service

34. OTHER LAWS ENACTED IN FAVOR OF
FILIPINO WOMEN

38. TYPES OF ABUSE
ON HOW IT IS ENACTED

39. Active abuse
means that person’s personal boundaries are
actively violated (i.e., significant others are too
involved and over-controlling). Some examples of
that can be physically hurting,, yelling, name
calling, molestation, shaming, etc.

40. Passive abuse
means that the partner bond is not stable or
broken (i.e., significant other is physically or
emotionally too distant or completely
unavailable). It includes neglect and
abandonment. Some examples are emotional
unavailability,, withdrawal of affection and
validation, and so on.

41. Vicarious abuse
means that the significant other fails to protect
the partner or puts her in an environment where
the partner suffers some form of abuse from
others.

42. APPROACH MODALITIES
FOR WOMEN S MENTAL HEALTH
1) mental health promotion
strategies
2) actual intervention strategies

44. MENTAL HEALTH
PROMOTION
STRATEGIES

45. ACTUALIZATION
OF MENTAL
HEALTH
STRATEGIES

46. INDIVIDUAL/PERSONAL LEVEL

49. COMMUNITY LEVEL
(barangay level)
staging mental health intervention

50. staging mental health intervention
Prevention and early intervention
Identify a mental health problem early
Physical health
Safety and security
Resource availability
Relationship
Know when to seek mental health interevention
Recogniting a Serious Mental health issue
• Mood disorders
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Personality disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Emotional disorders
• Attention deficit disorder
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Dementia
Breaking the stigma with professional help
Rehearse the intervention and show support
Follow through

51. NATIONAL LEVEL

52. National Demographic And Health Survey 2013
Philippines | 2013
Type of Measure : Research and statistical data > Violence against
women module in survey
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
________________________________________
National Strategy To Combat Trafficking
Philippines | 2011
Type of Measure : Policies > National strategy specific to violence
against women
Form of Violence : Trafficking
________________________________________
National Action Plan On The Implementation Of UN SC Resolution
1325
Philippines | 2010 | 2016
Type of Measure : Policies > Inclusion of violence against women
in other national plan/strategy
Form of Violence : Sexual harassment, Sexual violence,
Trafficking, Violence against women and girls

53. Temporary Shelters
Philippines | 2008
Type of Measure : Social services > Shelter/Safe accommodation
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
________________________________________
Performance Standards And Assessment Tools For Services Addressing
Violence Against Women
Philippines | 2008
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Regulations
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, Sexual
violence, Trafficking

54. Campaign:"CEDAW Ng Bayan: ReMOVE VAW!"
Philippines | 2008
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising
/Campaigns
Form of Violence : Trafficking, Violence against women
and girls
________________________________________
Crisis Intervention Units
Philippines | 2008
Type of Measure : Social services > Shelter/Safe
accommodation, Coordinated and or Integrated service
delivery > Integrated services delivery, Social services >
Psycho-social counselling
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner
violence

56. human rights,
gender equality
income equality,
progress
and safety.

58. Happy International Women s Day
to the epitome
Of strength and will power
H I W D to a woman
Who can achieve it so big
You have that soft side to you
You can be all strong too
Salute to a powerful woman of today
And that is solely you!