Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa
Given task-sharing mental health counselling to non-specialist providers is a recognised strategy to increase service capacity, ensuring that their training, supervision, and support needs are met is necessary to facilitate the sustainable delivery of a high-quality service. Using in-depth interview...
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| author | Jacobs, Y. Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn van der Westhuizen, C. Brooke-Sumner, C. Sorsdahl, K. |
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| description | Given task-sharing mental health counselling to non-specialist providers is a recognised strategy to increase service capacity, ensuring that their training, supervision, and support needs are met is necessary to facilitate the sustainable delivery of a high-quality service. Using in-depth interviews, we qualitatively explored the experiences of 18 facility-based counsellors (FBCs) tasked with delivering a counselling intervention within chronic disease services offered within primary care facilities participating in the project MIND cluster randomised controlled trial. Findings show that project MIND training with a strong emphasis on role playing and skills rehearsal improved FBCs’ confidence and competence, complemented by highly structured supervision and debriefing provided by a registered counsellor, were key strategies for supporting the implementation of task-shared mental health counselling. FBCs perceived many benefits to providing mental health counselling in primary healthcare but systemic interventions are needed for sustained implementation. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-856242021-10-21T00:20:38Z Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa Jacobs, Y. Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn van der Westhuizen, C. Brooke-Sumner, C. Sorsdahl, K. Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Policy & Services Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Psychiatry Health Care Sciences & Services Task-sharing Common mental disorders Training and supervision South Africa MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS THERAPY QUALITY PRIMARY-CARE SUPERVISION STRESS PREVALENCE WORKERS Given task-sharing mental health counselling to non-specialist providers is a recognised strategy to increase service capacity, ensuring that their training, supervision, and support needs are met is necessary to facilitate the sustainable delivery of a high-quality service. Using in-depth interviews, we qualitatively explored the experiences of 18 facility-based counsellors (FBCs) tasked with delivering a counselling intervention within chronic disease services offered within primary care facilities participating in the project MIND cluster randomised controlled trial. Findings show that project MIND training with a strong emphasis on role playing and skills rehearsal improved FBCs’ confidence and competence, complemented by highly structured supervision and debriefing provided by a registered counsellor, were key strategies for supporting the implementation of task-shared mental health counselling. FBCs perceived many benefits to providing mental health counselling in primary healthcare but systemic interventions are needed for sustained implementation. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85624 10.1007/s10597-020-00734-0 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SPRINGER fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Policy & Services Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Psychiatry Health Care Sciences & Services Task-sharing Common mental disorders Training and supervision South Africa MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS THERAPY QUALITY PRIMARY-CARE SUPERVISION STRESS PREVALENCE WORKERS Jacobs, Y. Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn van der Westhuizen, C. Brooke-Sumner, C. Sorsdahl, K. Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa |
| title | Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa |
| title_full | Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa |
| title_short | Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa |
| title_sort | task sharing or task dumping: counsellors experiences of delivering a psychosocial intervention for mental health problems in south africa |
| topic | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Policy & Services Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Psychiatry Health Care Sciences & Services Task-sharing Common mental disorders Training and supervision South Africa MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS THERAPY QUALITY PRIMARY-CARE SUPERVISION STRESS PREVALENCE WORKERS |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85624 |