The network approach: A path to decolonize mental health care

被引：5
作者：
Alemu, Rediet Emebet Getnet [1 ]
Osborn, Tom L. [1 ]
Wasanga, Christine M. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Shamiri Inst, Nairobi, Kenya
[2] Kenyatta Univ, Dept Psychol, Nairobi, Kenya
来源：
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH | 2023年 / 11卷
关键词：
mental health; Africa; decolonize; network; de-stigmatization; CULTURE; PSYCHOLOGY; CRITERIA;
D O I：
10.3389/fpubh.2023.1052077
中图分类号：
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号：
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要：
The violent colonial history of psychiatry in Africa prevents individuals from help seeking. 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 empowering local researchers to pioneer context-based knowledge production and treatment.
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