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Brief Intervention Models in Psychosis for Developing Countries (Asia and Africa)

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Low- and middle-income countries (LAMIC) have enormous burden of psychotic disorders with prevalence of schizophrenia between 1.4 and 4.6 per 1,000 (Jablensky 2000). While the burden is very heavy, the resources available to treat them are very limited. “For example, per 100,000 population, Psychiatrists working in the mental health sector in the most populous developing countries of Asia and Africa i.e., India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ethiopia are 0.301, 0.185, 0.06 and 0.04 respectively” (World Health Organization 2011). A combination of limited access and cultural belief systems leads to many individuals’ first accessing help from complimentary or alternate practitioners or spiritual healers. Additionally, there is an inverse relationship between GDP and duration of untreated psychosis (Large et al. 2008), and duration of untreated psychosis is shown to be correlated with adverse outcomes of poorer response to treatment and increased disability (Farooq et al. 2009).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Peshawar Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Muhammad Irfan (Provincial Chapter Chief)

  2. Pakistan Psychiatric Society Council Member, Committee on Publication Ethics General Secretary, Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Muhammad Irfan (Provincial Chapter Chief)

  3. Chartered Principal Clinical Psychologist, Oxfordshire County Council, The ATTACH team, Nash Court 4440 John Smith Drive Oxford Business Park South COWLEY, Oxford, OX4 NJ, USA

    Lydia Stone

  4. Global Mental Health Institute of Brain, Behaviour & Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, England

    Nusrat Husain (Reader in Psychiatry Lead, Director Research Global Health)

  5. Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC) Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Lead Culture & International Mental Health Research Group, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, England

    Nusrat Husain (Reader in Psychiatry Lead, Director Research Global Health)

  6. Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Research & Development, Clinical Trials Facility Tom Rudd Unit, Moorgreen Hospital, Botley Rd, West End, Southampton, England

    Peter Phiri (R&D Manager)

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Irfan, M., Stone, L., Husain, N., Phiri, P. (2016). Brief Intervention Models in Psychosis for Developing Countries (Asia and Africa). In: Pradhan, B., Pinninti, N., Rathod, S. (eds) Brief Interventions for Psychosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30521-9_12

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