The New School Center for Global Mental Health focuses on the development, adaptation, and testing of mental health and psychosocial interventions that can be delivered globally by non-mental health professionals, and works closely with cross-sector partners to carry out this work. Additionally, the Center has extensive experience in the study of traumatic stress and the identification of factors that contribute to mental health risks and resilience following exposure to trauma and adversity.
The Center is currently carrying out a number of studies examining training, implementation and outcomes for a wide range of mental health interventions delivered by non-specialists.
In particular, the Center works to carry out clinical trials with World Health Organization mental health strategies for adults and youth such as Problem Management Plus, Self-Help Plus, Early Adolescent Skills in Emotion (EASE), and Psychological First Aid.
Current research focuses on contributing to a knowledge base of best practices towards the integration of non-specialist delivered care within broader contexts in order to safely and effectively strengthen access to mental health support across diverse contexts.
Many of our studies focus on the ways in which non-specialist scalable mental health strategies, such as those developed by the World Health Organization, can be adapted to reflect local needs and concerns in order to reduce gaps in mental health care. We also draw on a wide range of research methods to better understand how adversity and trauma impacts mental health in order to guide the development of novel mental health programs.
Current research and collaborations focus on strengthening mental health support with non-specialist delivered care for communities impacted by adversity and trauma, such as forced migration and displacement, climate disasters, war, poverty. We are also working in a number of contexts to develop sustainable and scalable strategies to address the rising mental health challenges of youth and young adults.
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