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Supervision of Task-Shared Mental Health Care in Low-Resource Settings: A Commentary on Programmatic Experience

Task-shared mental health care programs in low-resource settings often incorporate supervisory structures that would be difficult to implement at scale, and many rely on foreign specialist experts as supervisors. Future programs could leverage peer supervision, technology, competency assessments/fid...

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Autores principales: Kemp, Christopher G., Petersen, Inge, Bhana, Arvin, Rao, Deepa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6641815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31249017
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00337
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Sumario:Task-shared mental health care programs in low-resource settings often incorporate supervisory structures that would be difficult to implement at scale, and many rely on foreign specialist experts as supervisors. Future programs could leverage peer supervision, technology, competency assessments/fidelity checklists, and other tools. Mental health care specialists will require training, support, and incentives to supervise generalist care providers.