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The Moral Blind Spots of Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Learning from Britain’s Trial of “Peer-Supported Open Dialogue” (2025)
Journal Article
Chase, L., & Mosse, D. (2025). The Moral Blind Spots of Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Learning from Britain’s Trial of “Peer-Supported Open Dialogue”. Medical Anthropology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2025.2563253

Open Dialogue is a rights-based approach to psychiatric crisis response with growing global uptake. Over the last five years, it has been subject to a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) within the UK’s National Health Service. While the tr... Read More about The Moral Blind Spots of Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Learning from Britain’s Trial of “Peer-Supported Open Dialogue”.

What matters for sustainable psychosocial interventions and who decides? Critical ethnography of a lay counselling program in Nepal (2024)
Journal Article
Shrestha, P., Limbu, A., Tiwari, K., & Chase, L. E. (2024). What matters for sustainable psychosocial interventions and who decides? Critical ethnography of a lay counselling program in Nepal. SSM Mental Health, 6, 100359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100359

Lay counselling, or the delivery of talk-based therapeutic support by people without a clinical degree, is gaining popularity as a way of addressing global shortages of mental health professionals. In Nepal, lay counselors have made significant contr... Read More about What matters for sustainable psychosocial interventions and who decides? Critical ethnography of a lay counselling program in Nepal.

The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: Reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal (2023)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/13648470.2022.2161765

Research 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)
Journal Article
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), 317-352. https://www.martinchautari.org.np/mc-publications/sinhas-volume-27-number-2

There 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)
Journal Article
Ahmed, S., Chase, L. E., Wagnild, J., Akhter, N., Sturridge, S., Clarke, A., Chowdhary, P., Mukami, D., Kasim, 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), 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01615-y

Background: 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)
Journal Article
Chase, L. E. (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.8.1.5111

As ‘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)
Journal Article
Chase, L. E., 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%2930483-1

Recent 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.

Culture and mental health in Nepal: an interdisciplinary scoping review (2018)
Journal Article
Chase, L. E., Sapkota, R. P., Crafa, D., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2018). Culture and mental health in Nepal: an interdisciplinary scoping review. Global Mental Health, 5, e36. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2018.27

Efforts 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)
Journal Article
Chase, L. E., Marahatta, K., Sidgel, K., Shrestha, S., Gautam, K., Luitel, N. P., Dotel, B. R., & 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), 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0221-3

Background: 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.