Building youth and family resilience for better mental health: developing and testing a hybrid model of intervention in low- and middle-income countries.

Journal: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

Volume: 220

Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 2022

Affiliated Institutions:  Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India. Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. Africa Mental Health Research and Training Foundation, Kenya. Africa Mental Health Research and Training Foundation, Kenya; Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK; and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.

Abstract summary 

Resilience is a dynamic, multi-level, multi-systemic process of positive adaptation at the individual, family and community levels. Promoting resilience can be a cost-effective form of preventive and early intervention, offering significant health advantages for young people throughout their lives. Developing resiliency interventions for youth and their families in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in the context of the ongoing pandemic, is especially important given a lack of services and trained specialists, and poor levels of public spend on mental health, alongside marked and clustered psychosocial disadvantages and adverse childhood experiences. We propose a 'hybrid' model targeting 10- to 17 year-old children and their families, and options to engage through communities, schools and the family unit. These options will enhance individual and family resilience, and possibly buffer against adversity. The adaptations respect cultural and health beliefs, take account of structural drivers of inequalities and are suitable for LMICs.

Authors & Co-authors:  Basu Nagpal Pillai Mutiso Ndetei Bhui

Study Outcome 

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Citations : 
Authors :  6
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1192/bjp.2021.129
SSN : 1472-1465
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Adolescent
Other Terms
Resilience;family;integrated intervention;low- and middle-income countries;youth
Study Design
Study Approach
Country of Study
Kenya
Publication Country
England