Researching the Dissemination of Psychological Therapies in Low and Middle-income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
1:00pm - 2:00pm /
Wednesday 31st May 2017
/ Venue: Academic Boardroom, 2nd Floor Eleanor Rathbone Building
- 0151 794 1413
- Praveetha Patalay
- Suitable for: All
- Admission: Free
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Global Mental Health (GMH) is an area of study, research, and practice that aims to address inequities in mental health care across the world. Particular emphasis is placed on building mental health service capacity in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC) where over 80% of the global population lives. Consistent with this approach, concerted efforts are being made to globally disseminate psychological interventions.
This presentation reflects on tensions that have arisen in these efforts e.g. concerns about the cross-cultural validity of mental disorders, the need to tailor assessments and interventions to local socio-cultural contexts, and making interventions sufficiently scalable whilst retaining aspects of the psychotherapy process that maximize the efficacy of psychological interventions.
The presentation will look at research being conducted in conjunction with the World Health Organization to evaluate a guided self-help intervention with refugees in Uganda. Before commencing post at the University of Liverpool in October 2016, Dr White was the Director of the MSc Global Mental Health programme at the University of Glasgow. He was the lead editor of ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-cultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health’ that was released in February 2017.
This presentation reflects on tensions that have arisen in these efforts e.g. concerns about the cross-cultural validity of mental disorders, the need to tailor assessments and interventions to local socio-cultural contexts, and making interventions sufficiently scalable whilst retaining aspects of the psychotherapy process that maximize the efficacy of psychological interventions.
The presentation will look at research being conducted in conjunction with the World Health Organization to evaluate a guided self-help intervention with refugees in Uganda. Before commencing post at the University of Liverpool in October 2016, Dr White was the Director of the MSc Global Mental Health programme at the University of Glasgow. He was the lead editor of ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-cultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health’ that was released in February 2017.