ArticleJournal of community psychology2023
Youth perspectives of working with near peer youth lay counsellors: The Safe Haven Pilot.
Article in Journal of community psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Providers' Experiences in Implementation of Friendship Bench: A Problem-Solving Therapy-Based Mental Health Intervention Adapted for People on Methadone Maintenance Treatment Who Live with HIV in Vietnam.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Youth peer-based mental health programmes and supports in low- and middle-income countries: rapid review.BJPsych open · 2026Review
- Piloting a Near-Peer Lay Counselor Based Problem Solving Therapy Intervention for Youth With and Without HIV in Botswana: An Adaptation of the Friendship Bench.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluating implementation research outcomes for a task-sharing mental health intervention: A systematic review of the Friendship Bench.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
- Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution?Global health action · 2024Article
- Implementation Determinants of Problem-Solving Therapy Delivered by Near-Peer Lay Counselors for Youth Living with HIV in Botswana: Lay Counsellor Perspectives.Global implementation research and applications · 2024Article
- "We did more than survive": lessons learned from studies of risk and resilience of young people growing up with HIV and mental health needs.AIDS care · 2024Article
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Abstract
Youth living with HIV (YLWH) have higher rates of common mental disorders (CMDs) when compared with HIV-negative youth. We adapted the Friendship Bench to create a problem solving-based counselling intervention in Botswana delivered by near peer youth lay counsellors for YLWH called Safe Haven. In August 2020, and from June to August 2021, we conducted 22 semistructured interviews with youth aged 13-25 years with mild-to-moderate symptoms of CMDs. Two independent coders carried out an inductive thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews with discrepancies discussed to consensus. Safe Haven was seen as largely acceptable among the youth. Youth felt Safe Haven was a place where they had freedom of expression and could receive practical advice from well-trained and approachable counsellors. Trained youth lay peer counsellors show promise to meet the mental health needs of mild and moderately symptomatic youth, where mental health professionals are in short supply.
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