Psychological Treatments for the World: Lessons from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2017, Pages 149-181

  Singla, Daisy R ^a,b   Kohrt, Brandon A ^c   Murray, Laura K ^d   Anand, Arpita ^e   Chorpita, Bruce F ^f   Patel, Vikram ^e,g,h  

^a Women s College Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Sangath   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Common elements; Global mental health; Implementation processes; Low and middle income countries; Meta analysis; Psychological treatments; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTRACTING; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIOFEEDBACK; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DEPRESSION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NEUROFEEDBACK; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PEER GROUP; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRAISE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ROLE PLAYING; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SUGGESTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GLOBAL HEALTH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 85019061124     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: 15485951     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032816-045217     Document Type: Article

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