The Network Approach: A Path to Decolonize Mental Health Care

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dc.contributor.authorAlemu, Rediet Emebet Getnet
dc.contributor.authorOsborn, Tom L.
dc.contributor.authorWasanga, Christine M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-09T09:24:28Z
dc.date.available2023-05-09T09:24:28Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe violent colonial history of psychiatry in Africa prevents individuals from helpseeking. Because of this history, mental health care is now stigmatized, and clinical research, practice, and policy fail to capture the salient features of distress across African communities. If we are to transform mental health care for all, we must adopt decolonizing frameworks to ensure mental health research, practice, and policy are enacted in a manner that is ethical, democratic, critical, and serves the needs of local communities. Here, we present that the network approach to psychopathology as an invaluable tool in achieving this purpose. The network approach recognizes mental health disorders not as discrete entities, but rather as dynamic networks that are made of psychiatric symptoms (called nodes) and the relationships between these symptoms (called edges). This approach can pave a path to decolonizing mental health care by alleviating stigma, allowing context-based understanding of mental health and mental health problems, opening new avenues for (low-cost) mental health care and empoweringen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTempleton World Charity Foundation, Incen_US
dc.identifier.citationAlemu, R. E. G., Osborn, T. L., & Wasanga, C. M. (2023). The network approach: A path to decolonize mental health care. Frontiers in Public Health, 11.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1052077
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/25285
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers in Public Healthen_US
dc.subjectmental healthen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectdecolonizeen_US
dc.subjectnetworken_US
dc.subjectde-stigmatizationen_US
dc.titleThe Network Approach: A Path to Decolonize Mental Health Careen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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