WHO cross-cultural applicability research on diagnosis and assessment of substance use disorders
A paper by Robin Room et al., 1996 "The attitudes of societies to alcohol and drug use affects the use of criteria and the making of diagnoses." R. Room et al. Abstract "The cross-cultural applicability of criteria for the diagnosis of substance use disorders and of instruments used for their assessment were studied in nine […]
Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men
A paper by Abhijit Nadkarni et al., 2016 "CAP delivered by lay counsellors plus enhanced usual care (EUC) was better than EUC alone..." A. Nadkarni et al. Summary Background "Although structured psychological treatments are recommended as first-line interventions for harmful drinking, only a small fraction of people globally receive these treatments because of poor access […]
Improving the scalability of psychological treatments in developing countries
A paper by Daisy Singla et al., 2014 "This study highlights that lay therapists can be trained to effectively assess each other's therapy sessions as well as experts..." D. Singla et al. Abstract "Psychological treatments delivered by lay therapists, with little or no previous mental health training, have been shown to be effective in treating […]