Resources

This report from Speak Your Mind shows how investing in mental health creates a ripple of positive effects that include, but go beyond the financial, to the individual and the social.

The WHO Quality rights initiative has published 15 key training and guidance materials to transform these recommendations into practical on the ground solutions.

mhGAP Intervention Guide - Version 2.0 for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings.

These guidelines provide evidence-based, up-to-date recommendations to practitioners on how to recognize and manage comorbid physical and mental health conditions.

The mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders

The Community Informant Detection Tool (CIDT) is a procedure of pro-active case-finding of people with suspected mental health problems, which subsequently promotes help seeking. The CIDT consists of contextualized vignettes and associated pictures to facilitate recognition by lay people. The rationale behind the strategy is that briefly trained community members that are intimately familiar with the community, are especially well-placed and capable to identify people in need of care. Research into the accuracy of the CIDT confirms this.

An introduction to the principles and practice of return on investment (ROI) analysis, with particular reference to its application to global mental health.

Guidance notes for GCC grantees on how to effectively complete the core metrics form.