Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 4: Thinking Healthy

About this episode

This episode discusses perinatal mental health and the Thinking Healthy intervention to support mothers and improve mental health outcomes.

Tackling the complex issue of perinatal mental health. Thinking Healthy (TH), a brief psychological intervention that can be delivered by trained and supervised community health care workers. It uses simple cognitive behavioral techniques to provide mothers with support and to improve mental health outcomes for the mother and new-born infant. In this fourth episode, Sarah Harrison, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub, speaks with Dr Waood Afara, Senior Mental Healt...

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Harrison

Guest: Dr Waood Afara

Topics covered

• perinatal mental health
• psychological intervention
• cognitive behavioral techniques
• community health care
• mental health outcomes

Keywords

• perinatal mental health
• Thinking Healthy
• cognitive behavioral techniques
• community health care workers
• mental health outcomes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub

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