What is it about?
This paper describes EMPOWER, an innovative platform to address the global mental health crisis of care through building the capacity of front-line workers to learn, master and deliver evidence based psychosocial interventions.
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Why is it important?
Psychosocial interventions are amongst the most effective for the full range of mental health conditions but the vast majority of people, in particular from disadvantaged contexts and populations, do not receive them. This is the single biggest crisis of mental health care globally.
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The EMPOWER program represents the culmination of nearly three decades of work on documenting the scale of unmet needs for mental health care in low resource settings globally and the systematic approach to design and evaluate scalable mental health interventions which leverage widely available community resources and meet people where they are.
Vikram Patel
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This page is a summary of: EMPOWER: Toward the Global Dissemination of Psychosocial Interventions, FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, July 2022, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.focus.20220042.
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