This is great work Stan, as a former religious network builder, now not religious and entering the space of scaling of lay-therapy in LMICs, I can see developing partnerships with religions and parachurch networks in LMICs to give use of their properties for community Mental Health Care (MHC), as well as helping them further their own versions, usually called spiritual counseling, in line with good science. In the USA this marriage is common and a significant percentage of the total MHC given the entire US population is done by religious org’s, a reality not well understood by secular professional communities. This won’t be my main modality, but leave no stone unturned.
I’m interested in many new therapeutic methods not even included in your report, that are just yet to be invented or perfected. I’m excited about the recent Australian BMJ Meta Analysis of Exercise interventions for depression that found dance to be more effective than any of the exercise types, as well as beating both SSRI’s and CBT...unfortunately a small sample size that needs more study, but still amazing. We will certainly run pilots on that in our new work.
This is great work Stan, as a former religious network builder, now not religious and entering the space of scaling of lay-therapy in LMICs, I can see developing partnerships with religions and parachurch networks in LMICs to give use of their properties for community Mental Health Care (MHC), as well as helping them further their own versions, usually called spiritual counseling, in line with good science. In the USA this marriage is common and a significant percentage of the total MHC given the entire US population is done by religious org’s, a reality not well understood by secular professional communities. This won’t be my main modality, but leave no stone unturned.
I’m interested in many new therapeutic methods not even included in your report, that are just yet to be invented or perfected. I’m excited about the recent Australian BMJ Meta Analysis of Exercise interventions for depression that found dance to be more effective than any of the exercise types, as well as beating both SSRI’s and CBT...unfortunately a small sample size that needs more study, but still amazing. We will certainly run pilots on that in our new work.
Jeffrey Kursonis