The art and skill of delivering culturally responsive trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy in Tanzania and Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study explored the facilitators, barriers, and strategies used to deliver a child mental health evidence-based treatment (EBT), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), in a culturally responsive manner. In low- and middle-income countries most individuals with mental health problems do not receive treatment due to a shortage of mental health professionals. One approach to addressing this problem is task-sharing, in which lay counselors are trained to deliver mental health treatment. Combining this approach with a focus on EBT provides a strategy for bridging the mental health treatment gap. However, little is known about how western-developed EBTs are delivered in a culturally responsive manner.

Method

Semistructured qualitative interviews were c

SUBMITTER: Woods-Jaeger BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5237406 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature