Improving access to mental health care and psychosocial support within a fragile context: a case study from Afghanistan

PLoS Med. 2012;9(5):e1001225. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001225. Epub 2012 May 29.

Abstract

As one article in a series on Global Mental Health Practice, Peter Ventevogel and colleagues provide a case study of their efforts to integrate brief, practice-oriented mental health training into the Afghanistan health care system at a time when the system was being rebuilt from scratch.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Afghanistan
  • Delivery of Health Care*
  • Health Services Accessibility*
  • Humans
  • Mental Health Services*
  • Mental Health*
  • Psychotherapy / education*
  • Social Support