Consumer-providers of care for adult clients of statutory mental health services

Peruvian Guideline to Care the Mental Health of Health Providers During COVID-19 Pandemic

Geographic accessibility to addiction, mental health, and HIV/AIDS health-care services for opioid-dependent clients

Background Access to care is an important concept in health policy and health services research, yet it is one which has not been defined precisely. To some researchers “access” refers to entry into or use of a health-care system, while to others it characterizes factors influencing entry or use. [1] This paper studied accessibility as it refers to entry into or use of a health-care system by m...

Mental Health Services in Rural China: A Qualitative Study of Primary Health Care Providers

This study aimed to understand the challenges that primary health care providers faced in the process of delivering mental healthcare and assess their attitudes towards patients with mental health problems. In-depth interviews were conducted among 42 primary health care providers in two counties of Guangxi province, China. All interviews were audio-recorded and analyzed thematically. Primary he...

the clients’ readiness to use mental health care services: experiences and perceptions from iranian context

background: underutilization of mental health care services has been a challenge for the health care providers for many years. this challenge could be met in part by improving the clients’ readiness to use such services. this study aimed to introduce the important aspects of the clients’ readiness to use mental health services in the iranian context. materials and methods: a thematic analysis o...

Secondary Traumatization in Mental Health Care Providers

Secondary trauma is defined as indirect exposure to trauma through a firsthand account or narrative of a traumatic event. The vivid recounting of trauma by the survivor and the clinician's subsequent cognitive or emotional representation of that event may result in a set of symptoms and reactions that parallel PTSD (e.g., reexperiencing, avoidance and hyperarousal). Secondary traumatization is ...