Mental Health: Non-pharmacological Interventions That Can Help You

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Asian Americans are less likely than other racial groups to seek help for mental health issues due to social stigma, shame, saving face, and medical costs. Asians also tend to express physical complaints rather than psychological distress. There are a variety of effective, accessible, and culturally competent treatments for mental health problems.
Samuel Wong, MD, MPH, reviews non-pharmacological evidence-based interventions for mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. He talks about alternative and complementary interventions that are popular among Asian populations, with an update on the most recent evidence from clinical trials.
Samuel Wong, MD, MPH, Director of the School of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the Director of the Master of Public Health Programme and Thomas Jing Centre for Mindfulness Research and Training.
Professor Wong’s research interests include evaluating and developing mindfulness- based and mental health interventions in primary care; evaluating primary care services and developing primary care service models as well as multimorbidity. He has published more than 200 original papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals including the Annals of Family Medicine, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, British Journal of Psychiatry and JAMA Internal Medicine and has contributed 5 book chapters and co-edited the Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health published by the Oxford University Press. He has been appointed by the HKSAR government as a member of the Expert Panel in Primary Healthcare and Non-communicable Disease and the Steering Committee on Primary Healthcare Development.
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