Access to mental health care for all is
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Availability of mental health care is #Solvable. Dixon Chibanda explains how training local health workers to identify, advise, and treat mental health conditions can help provide adequate psychiatric care to those for whom it is hardest to access.
Dixon Chibanda is the Director for the African Mental Health Research Initiative and works on developing, testing, and validating alternative interventions to address mental, neurological, and substance use disorders. He is the founder of the Friendship Bench, a program that seeks to reduce the treatment gap for common mental disorders in Zimbabwe that has been scaled up to over 70 primary care clinics throughout the country.
Learn more at www.rockefellerfoundation.org/solvable
Well done, thank you
Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness - the state of someone who is "functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment".
From the perspectives of positive psychology or of holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life, and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, inter-generational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others."
The WHO further states that the well-being of an individual is encompassed in the realization of their abilities, coping with normal stresses of life, productive work and contribution to their community.
Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines "mental health".
Doctor Chibanda how are you. I am a psychology student, l would love to get hold of you.
This is great