Reducing Stigma Among Healthcare Providers to Improve Mental Health Services

Mental health services users and primary care workers who have previously completed the training are trained using PhotoVoice and other techniques to participate as co-facilitators. They participate in introductions to the intervention, myth busting, recovery stories, psychosocial communication role plays, and collaborative activities addressing challenges and barriers to task sharing/ task shifting mental health services in primary care.

"Primary care workers are trained using the mental health Global Action Programme (mhGAP) to identify and treat mental disorders in primary care. Primary care prescribers (those who can administer psychotropic medication) are trained to treat disorders including depression, alcohol use disorder, psychosis / schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Non-prescribers (primary care workers not authorized to dispense medications) are trained to deliver psychosocial and psychological interventions."