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 …

Workforce shortages pose major obstacles to delivering adequate mental health care and
scaling up services to address the global treatment gap. Mounting evidence demonstrates …

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 …

Most individuals in both developing and developed countries who experience mental illness
do not receive psychological services. The dominant model of delivering services used in …

Abstract Purpose of Review Widespread implementation of integrated primary care and
behavioral health is possible, but workforce shortages, competencies to deliver evidence …

Background While integrated primary healthcare for the management of depression has
been well researched, appropriate models of primary care for people with severe and …

A global disparity exists between the burden of mental ill-health and the resources available
to address this issue. Common mental disorders, such as mild-to-moderate depression …

Collaborative care models (CCMs) provide a pragmatic strategy to deliver integrated mental
health and medical care for persons with mental health conditions served in primary care …

Task-sharing has frequently been proposed as a strategy to overcome human resource
shortages in order to scale up mental health care. Although evidence suggests this …

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 …