This Research Topic highlights contributions of mental health innovators on engaging communities and resources for building resilience in vulnerable populations using relational experiences, task shifting and task sharing modalities to foster resilience. The COVID 19 pandemic has not only had significant impact on community health in vulnerable populations but continues to challenge the task of all those providing care. In addition to the neuropsychiatric cascade of vulnerable populations, the health care systems will no doubt be increasingly strained as mental health disorders and distress are predicted to increase significantly. This will worsen the already existing Mental Health Gap for access to care globally and it is imperative at this time to bring to the fore innovations that have proven successful and can be replicated to address this issue.
The goal of this Research Topic is to highlight community engagement and resilience promotion that foster advancements bridging the Mental Health Gap in vulnerable populations in LMIC’s, sharing local solution and models of care characterized by innovative and cultural aligned therapeutic modalities. The papers should outline projects that can be replicated and transitioned to scale focused on indigenous expertise and culturally competent initiatives integrating conventional and nonconventional approaches to healing in a communal setting. The content of the papers should focus on implementation of sustainable models of community engagement as well as strategies and policies that have been used to build transition to scale of these innovations and initiatives.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Work being done in LIMC’s using local and indigenous expertise
• Focus on innovative models that apply task shifting and task sharing methodologies
• Considerations and evaluations of Novel low cost interventions with potential for high impact
• Manuscripts that highlight cultural competency with inclusion of art and culture based interventions
• Training and capacity building initiatives that underline knowledge sharing and partnerships between LMICs
• Highlight and outline planning , policy and issues related to transitioning these innovations to scale in LMIC settings
• Community based interventions that counter the stigma of mental disorders as well as fostering inclusivity and reintegration of persons suffering from mental illnesses.
This Research Topic highlights contributions of mental health innovators on engaging communities and resources for building resilience in vulnerable populations using relational experiences, task shifting and task sharing modalities to foster resilience. The COVID 19 pandemic has not only had significant impact on community health in vulnerable populations but continues to challenge the task of all those providing care. In addition to the neuropsychiatric cascade of vulnerable populations, the health care systems will no doubt be increasingly strained as mental health disorders and distress are predicted to increase significantly. This will worsen the already existing Mental Health Gap for access to care globally and it is imperative at this time to bring to the fore innovations that have proven successful and can be replicated to address this issue.
The goal of this Research Topic is to highlight community engagement and resilience promotion that foster advancements bridging the Mental Health Gap in vulnerable populations in LMIC’s, sharing local solution and models of care characterized by innovative and cultural aligned therapeutic modalities. The papers should outline projects that can be replicated and transitioned to scale focused on indigenous expertise and culturally competent initiatives integrating conventional and nonconventional approaches to healing in a communal setting. The content of the papers should focus on implementation of sustainable models of community engagement as well as strategies and policies that have been used to build transition to scale of these innovations and initiatives.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Work being done in LIMC’s using local and indigenous expertise
• Focus on innovative models that apply task shifting and task sharing methodologies
• Considerations and evaluations of Novel low cost interventions with potential for high impact
• Manuscripts that highlight cultural competency with inclusion of art and culture based interventions
• Training and capacity building initiatives that underline knowledge sharing and partnerships between LMICs
• Highlight and outline planning , policy and issues related to transitioning these innovations to scale in LMIC settings
• Community based interventions that counter the stigma of mental disorders as well as fostering inclusivity and reintegration of persons suffering from mental illnesses.
