The World Health Organization has released a new guide to help scale up psychological self-help interventions, aiming to close the mental health care gap for over one billion people worldwide. - The guide provides practical steps for implementing self-help models, both guided and unguided, with minimal human resources.
- Evidence shows self-help approaches are effective for depression and anxiety, and can be delivered remotely in low-resource and crisis-affected settings. - It targets programme managers, implementers, and frontline helpers in health, humanitarian, and community settings.
The guide includes tools, scripts, and templates to support high-quality implementation and integration into primary health care and digital services.