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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Korte, Kristina J.
• Hook, Kimberly
• Levey, Elizabeth J.
• Cooper-Vince, Christine E.
• Denckla, Christy A.
• Ghebrehiwet, Senait
• Hock, Rebecca S.
• Harris, Benjamin L.
• Menyongai, Jeremiah
• Baul, Tithi D.
• Borba, Christina P.C.
• Fricchione, Gregory L.
• Henderson, David C.

Titel

A Global-Local Paradigm for Mental Health: A Model and Implications for Addressing Disparities Through Training and Research

Ist Teil von

• Academic psychiatry, 2023-04, Vol.47 (2), p.196-200

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The fellowship aims to develop independent and productive clinical investigators, and emphasizes creation of collaborative partnerships and bidirectional (i.e., mutually beneficial) capacity building to improve population health in both directions. [...]lessons learned from global work have direct implications for the U.S., where there continue to be disparities in accessing quality care for traditionally underserved groups [8]. [...]of this community-identified need, the Health and Mental Health Education and Awareness for Africans in Lowell (HEAAL) was co-founded with Christ Jubilee International Ministries in 2014 with the goal of informing the development of mental health resources tailored to the community’s needs [15]. [...]our local community better recognized their needs for mental health care and were open to further engagement with mental health providers, and our global work was strengthened after including our local partners’ knowledge into our data collection and interpretation. Additionally, outside of the direct impacts to the global and local Liberian population, this type of bidirectional learning offers opportunities for training psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and allied mental health professionals (professions in the fields of Behavioral Analysis, Educational Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, Mental Health