Task-shifting or problem-shifting? How lay counselling is redefining mental healthcare
(2024)
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Chase, L., Shrestha, P., Datta, G., Forsythe, N., Jain, S., Maharjan, S. M., …Ntow, M. C. (2024). Task-shifting or problem-shifting? How lay counselling is redefining mental healthcare. PLoS Mental Health, 1(1), Article e0000067. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000067
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The contribution of anthropology to the study of Open Dialogue: ethnographic research methods and opportunities (2023)
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Mosse, D., Baker, D., Carroll, M., Chase, L., Kloocke, R., Wickremasinghe, K., …Wuerth, M. (2023). The contribution of anthropology to the study of Open Dialogue: ethnographic research methods and opportunities. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1111588. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1111588
The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: Reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal (2023)
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Chase, L. (2023). The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: Reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal. Anthropology and Medicine, 30(3), 294-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2022.2161765Research in the field of Global Mental Health has stoked hopes that ‘task-shifting’ to community workers can help fill treatment gaps in low-resource settings. The fact that community workers inhabit the same local moral worlds as their clients is wi... Read More about The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: Reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal.
Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal (2022)
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Chase, L., Shrestha, S., Sidgel, K., Rumba, S., Shrestha, P., & Gurung, D. (2022). Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal. Studies in Nepali history and society, 27(2), 317-352There is growing consensus that aspects of mental healthcare can be effectively delivered by lay community members with as little as a few days to a few months of training. In the field of Global Mental Health, the deployment of such “community worke... Read More about Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal.
Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice (2022)
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Ahmed, S., Chase, L. E., Wagnild, J., Akhter, N., Sturridge, S., Clarke, A., …Hampshire, K. (2022). Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01615-yBackground: The deployment of Community Health Workers (CHWs) is widely promoted as a strategy for reducing health inequities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Yet there is limited evidence on whether and how CHW programmes achieve this. Th... Read More about Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice.
Psychosocialization in Nepal: Notes on translation from the frontlines of global mental health (2021)
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Chase, L. (2021). Psychosocialization in Nepal: Notes on translation from the frontlines of global mental health. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 8(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.8.1.5111As ‘psychosocial interventions’ continue to gain traction in the field of global mental health, a growing critical literature problematises their vague definition and attendant susceptibility to appropriation. In this article, I recast this ill-defin... Read More about Psychosocialization in Nepal: Notes on translation from the frontlines of global mental health.
Gendering psychosocial care: Risks and opportunities for global mental health (2020)
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Chase, L., Gurung, D., Shrestha, P., & Rumba, S. (2021). Gendering psychosocial care: Risks and opportunities for global mental health. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(4), 267-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2820%2930483-1Recent conversations in The Lancet Psychiatry have highlighted the ways global mental health institutions reflect and reproduce wider social inequalities. 1 Gendered practices of employment and remuneration are an understudied dimension of this probl... Read More about Gendering psychosocial care: Risks and opportunities for global mental health.
Ethnographic case study of a community day center for asylum seekers as early stage mental health intervention. (2018)
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Chase, L. E., & Rousseau, C. (2018). Ethnographic case study of a community day center for asylum seekers as early stage mental health intervention. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88(1), https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000266
Culture and mental health in Nepal: an interdisciplinary scoping review (2018)
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Chase, L., Sapkota, R., Crafa, D., & Kirmayer, L. (2018). Culture and mental health in Nepal: an interdisciplinary scoping review. Global Mental Health, 5, Article e36. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2018.27Efforts to address global mental health disparities have given new urgency to longstanding debates on the relevance of cultural variations in the experience and expression of distress for the design and delivery of effective services. This scoping re... Read More about Culture and mental health in Nepal: an interdisciplinary scoping review.
Building back better? Taking stock of the post-earthquake mental health and psychosocial response in Nepal (2018)
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Chase, L. E., Marahatta, K., Sidgel, K., Shrestha, S., Gautam, K., Luitel, N. P., …Samuel, R. (2018). Building back better? Taking stock of the post-earthquake mental health and psychosocial response in Nepal. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 12(1), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0221-3Background: The World Health Organization’s ‘building back better’ approach advocates capitalizing on the resources and political will elicited by disasters to strengthen national mental health systems. This study explores the contributions of the re... Read More about Building back better? Taking stock of the post-earthquake mental health and psychosocial response in Nepal.
“In our community, a friend is a psychologist”: An ethnographic study of informal care in two Bhutanese refugee communities (2017)
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Chase, L., & Sapkota, R. P. (2017). “In our community, a friend is a psychologist”: An ethnographic study of informal care in two Bhutanese refugee communities. Transcultural Psychiatry, 54(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461517703023
The gap between entitlement and access to healthcare: An analysis of “candidacy” in the help-seeking trajectories of asylum seekers in Montreal (2017)
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Chase, L. E., Cleveland, J., Beatson, J., & Rousseau, C. (2017). The gap between entitlement and access to healthcare: An analysis of “candidacy” in the help-seeking trajectories of asylum seekers in Montreal. Social Science & Medicine, 182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.038
Making Peace In The Heart-Mind: towards an ethnopsychology of resilience among Bhutanese refugees (2013)
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Chase, L. E., & Bhattarai, D. (2013). Making Peace In The Heart-Mind: towards an ethnopsychology of resilience among Bhutanese refugees. European bulletin of Himalayan research, 43, 144-166
“Solving Tension”: coping among Bhutanese refugees in Nepal (2013)
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Chase, L. E., Welton‐Mitchell, C., & Bhattarai, S. (2013). “Solving Tension”: coping among Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-05-2013-0001
Taking the MINI to Mustang, Nepal: methodological and epistemological translations of an illness narrative interview tool (2010)
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Craig, S. R., Chase, L., & Lama, T. N. (2010). Taking the MINI to Mustang, Nepal: methodological and epistemological translations of an illness narrative interview tool. Anthropology and Medicine, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13648471003602566