Harnessing Technology to Address the Global Mental Health Crisis

Batada, Amirali; Solano, Rene Antonio Leon

doi:10.1596/31766

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“…As Batada and Leon Solano noted, “One key factor hindering the progress of addressing mental illness lies in the structural imbalance between inadequate capacity to extend support and the high growth rate of individuals requiring treatment... Addressing this gap in a timely and effective manner will warrant innovative approaches that operate in parallel with traditional strategies [ 19 ].” Telemental health and consultation/supervision represents one such innovative strategy.…”

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The Role of Telemental Health, Tele-consultation, and Tele-supervision in Post-disaster and Low-resource Settings

Augusterfer

O’Neal

Martin

et al. 2020

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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Purpose of Review The goal of this paper was to review recent literature and provide recommendations regarding the use of telemental health, with a focus on tele-consultation and tele-supervision in post-disaster and low-resource settings, including the impact of COVID-19. Recent Findings The latest research on mental health needs in low-resource settings has identified a high need for mental health services for difficult-to-reach and underserved populations. Research on tele-consultation and tele-supervision was reviewed and found that tele-consultation and tele-supervision to be an effective modality for insuring quality mental health care delivery in low-resource settings. Additionally, two case studies were included which illustrate the use of both tele-consultation and telesupervision in low-resource low-and middle-income settings. Summary The paper concludes that tele-consultation and tele-supervision hold the promise to narrow the gap in quality mental health services in low-resource settings so often impacted by disaster and conflict. The authors recommend that telemental health training be developed that specifically enhances consultants' and supervisors' skills in tele-consultation and tele-supervision.

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The Role of Telemental Health, Tele-consultation, and Tele-supervision in Post-disaster and Low-resource Settings

Augusterfer

O’Neal

Martin

et al. 2020

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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“…Utilising modern technology such as video/teleconferencing to review patients who are under the Mental Health Act but cannot been seen in person should be incorporated into the draft. 13,14 In addition, the new Mental Health Act should reflect changes that have been made to other legislation in Sri Lanka, such as the penal code, and poisons, opium and dangerous drugs ordinances, as well as recent changes to the mental health laws of other countries. Furthermore, it is high time that service providers and policymakers realise that the Mental Health Act is not just for providing treatment to people with mental illnesses in institutions in the least restrictive and intrusive manner, but it also provides a legal framework for addressing issues such as treating people with mental disorders in the community, their education, housing, employment as well as their integration while protecting their rights.…”

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Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws

Hapangama¹,

Mendis

Kuruppuarachchi

2022

BJPsych Int.

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Mental health legislation protects the rights of people with mental illnesses. However, despite major social, political and cultural changes, Sri Lankan mental health services still operate on laws enacted mostly during the British rule more than a century ago, in the pre-psychotropics era, and focusing more on the detention of people with mental illnesses than on their treatment. It is high time all stakeholders made efforts for the much-awaited new Mental Health Act to pass through parliament urgently to meet the needs and protect the rights of patients, their caregivers and service providers.

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“…First and foremost, psychosocial approaches tend to be lengthy and require significant human resources and capital for their implementation. Therefore, the structural imbalance between the large increase in individuals requiring treatment and the inadequate capacity to extend support represents a significant challenge globally (Batada & Leon Solano, 2019). In high-income countries this is problematic due to the increasingly high cost of careparticularly high salaries for specialized mental health practitionerswhile in LMICs this is exhibited through the few specialists available to treat a large populations in need, or to adequately train other providers or lay workers.…”

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“…In this way, the language of "mental health" and "mental illness" is often embedded in Western culture and the study of madness as understood in the West (Fernando, 2014). Addressing this gap in an effective manner therefore warrants innovative approaches which operate in parallel to traditional strategies and understandings of mental illness (Batada & Leon Solano, 2019). Until the Western history embedded in current psychosocial approaches is allowed to meld more with local understandings, there will continue to be challenges and barriers associated with the planning, design, and deployment of effective psychosocial interventions in the treatment of mental illness.…”

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Effective Treatment Interventions for Global Mental Health: An Analysis of Biomedical and Psychosocial Approaches in Use Today

Galvin¹

2020

JPMHC

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We are in an important moment for mental health treatment around the world, as many Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) – representing an increasing majority of the world’s population – are currently developing and scaling up services for the first time. Yet, research on Global Mental Health (GMH) best practices remains scattered and difficult to synthesize. This review aims to simplify existing GMH research on effective biomedical and psychosocial treatment approaches from both high-income countries and LMICs to enable a more comprehensive understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of existing interventions, based on the highest quality, up-to-date research. By understanding which treatments are most effective and why, we can begin to not only implement more effective practices, but guide the future of GMH research in the right directions. The purpose of this review is therefore to understand mental illness, what it is, how it was treated in the past, how it manifests differently around the globe, and how to best treat it. Ultimately, while psychosocial approaches are advised for patients with more mild to moderate disorders, medications and other biomedical approaches are recommended increasingly only for more severe cases. While significant evidence exists to justify the use of psychotropic medications for mental illness, their adverse effects indicate that psychosocial approaches should be prioritized as first line treatments, particularly for mild to moderate disorders. As one of the first to analyze this research, this review is useful not only for GMH scholars, but for practitioners and public health workers globally, as well.

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Harnessing Technology to Address the Global Mental Health Crisis

Abstract: The distribution of the common mental disorders: social inequalities in Europe. (BioMed Central Ltd.) BioMed Central Ltd.

Cited by 11 publications

References 46 publications

The Role of Telemental Health, Tele-consultation, and Tele-supervision in Post-disaster and Low-resource Settings

The Role of Telemental Health, Tele-consultation, and Tele-supervision in Post-disaster and Low-resource Settings

Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws

Effective Treatment Interventions for Global Mental Health: An Analysis of Biomedical and Psychosocial Approaches in Use Today

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