Research Seminar: Mental health self-care: the DIRECT care model: Mark Yaffe

The DIRECT team developed a depression self-care toolkit specifically for community-based patients. The toolkit, which can be modified according to the needs of specific target populations, acknowledges the interconnectedness of mental and physical health and addresses both aspects in a coordinated manner. The team has shown the feasibility of delivering supported depression self-care based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles using telephone or internet modalities. This model of guided mental health self-care is innovative, accessible, and employs low-cost self-care tools and trained lay guides who may be recruited from communities-at-large.
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