Meta-analysis of Peer-counseling
Summary:
Traditional in-person psychotherapies are proving incapable of addressing mental health needs globally. Fundamentally new approaches are needed to increase access to effective mental health care in an economic, feasible, and scalable manner. Peer-counseling and task-sharing, where mental health care is provided by non-specialist providers (e.g., nurses, clergy, peers, community members), have been explored as strategies for overcoming human resource shortages in low resource settings. The current study seeks to explore the literature related to this promising approach to closing the large gap between mental health treatment need and actual treatment received.
Principal Investigator:
Marcus Rodriguez
Project Lead:
Elizabeth Kreppel