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ReviewPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2025

The Call to Increase Adoption of Family-Based Interventions in Global Mental Health Programming.

Ali Giusto, Bernadine Y Waller, Mary Bunn, Florence Jaguga, Palmira Dos Santos, Jennifer Mootz

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Review in Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ali GiustoDepartment of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami (Giusto); New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City (Waller, Mootz); Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago (Bunn); Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya (Jaguga); Mental Health, Trauma and Violence Program, Research and Wellbeing National Directorate, National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (dos Santos).
Bernadine Y WallerDepartment of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami (Giusto); New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City (Waller, Mootz); Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago (Bunn); Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya (Jaguga); Mental Health, Trauma and Violence Program, Research and Wellbeing National Directorate, National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (dos Santos).
Mary BunnDepartment of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami (Giusto); New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City (Waller, Mootz); Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago (Bunn); Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya (Jaguga); Mental Health, Trauma and Violence Program, Research and Wellbeing National Directorate, National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (dos Santos).
Florence JagugaDepartment of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami (Giusto); New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City (Waller, Mootz); Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago (Bunn); Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya (Jaguga); Mental Health, Trauma and Violence Program, Research and Wellbeing National Directorate, National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (dos Santos).
Palmira Dos SantosDepartment of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami (Giusto); New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City (Waller, Mootz); Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago (Bunn); Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya (Jaguga); Mental Health, Trauma and Violence Program, Research and Wellbeing National Directorate, National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (dos Santos).
Jennifer MootzDepartment of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami (Giusto); New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City (Waller, Mootz); Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago (Bunn); Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya (Jaguga); Mental Health, Trauma and Violence Program, Research and Wellbeing National Directorate, National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (dos Santos).

Funding

Leveraging Implementation Science and Design Methods to Sustain Community-Based Mental Health Services for RefugeesK01MH128524 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI Mary Bunn · 2022 to 2026
$935k
A brief, task-shifted treatment to improve father depression and child outcomes in Kenya: A pilot effectiveness-implementation trialK23MH128742 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI Ali Giusto · 2022 to 2026
$841k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH128524NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH128742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Family-based intervention approaches hold tremendous promise for improving mental health in scalable and relevant ways that address social determinants of health, yet family-focused prevention and care interventions are underused in global mental health. This article provides a brief overview of the evidence and types of programs. It then outlines five future directions for family-focused global mental health interventions: integrating implementation science into family-focused programs, expanding research on family-focused work to other populations and different modalities, encouraging transdisciplinary learning from other fields, understanding what works for whom and where, and disseminating family interventions grounded in locally derived theoretical frameworks.

Indexed as

Family TherapyGlobal HealthMental DisordersMental Health ServicesHumansImplementation Sciencefamily interventionFamily support systemsGlobal mental healthimplementation scienceService delivery systems

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PMID39844640
PMCPMC11961304

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