UAE-based Camali Clinic Child and Adult Mental Health (Camali) has announced a collaboration with the world-renowned Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK to bring the Tavistock's popular and award-winning training courses to the UAE and the region.

For almost 100 years, the Tavistock has embodied a distinctive way of thinking about and understanding mental distress, mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Working with children, families and adults, their approach brings together psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and systemic theory and other approaches, said the company in a statement.

Starting in 2018, the courses offered will include bespoke programmes for professionals in senior leadership and management positions as well as general courses on multidisciplinary practice suitable for clinicians, counsellors, teachers, social workers and nurses working with children and families.

Omar Mehanna, the co-founder of Camali, said: "Such a collaboration with the world renowned Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust is a privilege and represents another important milestone for Camali in fulfilling our vision of establishing a centre of excellence providing holistic and reflective mental health clinical and training services in the region."

Brian Rock, the director of education and training and dean of postgraduate studies, said: "Development is at the heart of everything we do so education and training is at our core. Our mission today remains true to our founding mission: 'to help, to understand more and to teach our work'."

"Accordingly, our approach to all our education and training is interwoven with the clinical enterprise. Most of our educators are experts in their clinical domain. We trust that this will enable participants with further development of capabilities that will equip them to make a thoughtful and impactful contribution to their work in health, mental health, social care, education and criminal justice," he added.-TradeArabia News Service