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 …

Purpose Rural areas persistently face a shortage of mental health specialists. Task shifting,
or task sharing, is an approach in global mental health that may help address unmet mental …

Use of lay health workers for the treatment of common mental disorders is an expanding, yet
still underutilized, opportunity for closing the behavioral health treatment gap globally. In this …

Abstract Purpose of Review Most people do not have access to adequate mental health
care, and lack of skilled human resources is a major factor. We provide a narrative review of …

Background Peer support specialists offering mental health and substance use support
services have been shown to reduce stigma, hospitalizations, and health care costs …

The field of global mental healthfaces important challenges. Access to mental health
services is grossly inadequate in many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) despite …

Background. Task-sharing is the involvement of non-specialist providers to deliver mental
health services. A challenge for task-sharing programs is to achieve and maintain clinical …

As peer-delivered services are increasingly embedded within behavioral health
organizations, a need has arisen to identify practices that facilitate supervision and support …

Mental health peer specialists are individuals with serious mental illnesses who receive
training to use their lived experiences to help others with serious mental illnesses in clinical …

With increasing calls to incorporate recovery principles into conventional mental health care,
the importance of peer support worker (PSW) services has gained attention. However …