THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AS A SPACE FOR HEALTH TRAINING: "INTERUNIVERSITY DIALOGUES TO CONSIDER COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH IN CURRENT TIMES"

Abstract

This Dossier from the Contextos de Educación Journal brings together productions that disseminate emerging knowledge from the 2da. Jornada Interuniversitaria de Salud Mental (2nd Interuniversity Conference on Mental Health), “La emergencia de una Salud Mental con sentido social y comunitario ante los discursos y prácticas de odio en los tiempos que corren” (The Emergence of Mental Health with a Social and Community Meaning in the Face of Hateful Discourse and Practices in Current Times), held in October 2024 at the Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. The conference, the result of a collaborative effort by local universities: the Universidad de Mendoza, Universidad Siglo XXI and the Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, was intended to generate a reflective discussion on the reality of mental health currently crisscrossed by a complex context permeated by hateful discourse. This reality required work to proclaim its public, social, collective, and community meaning from and with the people. These meanings are recovered in the manuscripts that comprise it, which provide the potential to drive transformations in this field.