This webinar provides an in-depth case study and discussion of the Friendship Bench programme. Friendship Bench is an innovative, task-sharing project which trains lay health workers to deliver basic cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), with a focus on problem-solving therapy (PST), to people with mild to moderate-level common mental health difficulties, such as anxiety and depression, in a community setting. The project began in Zimbabwe but has since been adopted elsewhere internationally. In this webinar, Prof Dixon Chibanda (Director of AMARI and Founder of Friendship Bench) talks through the project, its inception, development and delivery challenges, as well as the team’s work to develop an evidence base from a pilot and scale-up the intervention.
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