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Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Harvard's Vikram Patel — co-founder of the Movement for Global Mental Health and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People — argues that the future of mental health care isn't more psychiatrists. It's task-sharing: trained non-specialist community workers delivering brief, evidence-based interventions like behavioral activation in six sessions, with outcomes comparable to anything in the global literature.
Patel walks through why this model works from rural India to sub-Saharan Africa, why it applies just as urgently to the US, and why a country with more mental health professionals than any other still has more people with serious mental illness in prisons than in care.
Topics: global mental health, the treatment gap, behavioral activation, cultural translation of psychiatric concepts, task-sharing, community health workers, US mental health disparities."
For more from Dr. Vikram Patel check out his lab at Harvard Medical School, the Mental Health for All lab( https://mentalhealthforalllab.hms.harvard.edu)
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