Innovations

The development of a programme to better understand the causality of suicidal behaviour within Tunisia and to define a prevention strategy to integrate within the national strategy as a priority action.

Integrating mental health and psychosocial services within primary health care facilities and community.

An 18-module group intervention with young people implemented by peer-facilitators.

Promotion of better mental health awareness and support in Sri Lanka.

A training program for parents based on Parent Management Training (PMT) principles and aims to equip parents with the skills and confidence they need to be self-sufficient and manage family issues independently.

Using an adapted Community-based Sociotherapy approach to reduce depressive symptomology in Congolese refugees.

Empowering primary health care staff to better diagnose mental health conditions and developing an effective and innovative patient interview approach for quick and easy diagnosis of and dealing with mental health conditions.

Integrating MHPSS services at the community level in order to enhance service access for populations at risk of severe mental distress and to reduce the linked dual-stigma of mental health conditions and gender-based violence.

Lay workers providing evidence-based treatment to Burmese trauma survivors in Thailand.

Cross-cultural research programme to generate rigorous population-based data on schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in India, Nigeria and Trinidad.

Trained and supervised lay health worker stationed on a “Friendship Bench” delivers problem-solving therapy.

Integrated mental health and psychosocial support to refugee populations in South Sudan.

Integrating mental health service delivery into primary health care system in Ethiopia through a health systems strengthening approach in partnership with researchers, ministries of health and non-governmental organisations.

Integrating mental health service delivery into primary health care system in Nepal through a health systems strengthening approach in partnership with researchers, ministries of health and non-governmental organisations.