Bridging the Child Mental Health Care Gap in LMICs: RESEED and Task-shifted, Teacher-led Care

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.25587
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Christina Cruz, Dr. Michael Matergia, and Priscilla Giri discuss their co-authored CAMH journal Short Research Article ‘RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher-led, task-shifting initiative for child mental health’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12673).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• Introducing RESEED (Responding to Students’ Emotions through Education), and Tealeaf (Teachers Leading the Frontlines).
• Definitions of ‘stepped levels of care’ and ‘task-shifting’ in terms of teacher-led care.
• Research gaps that this study aimed to address.
• Surprising results from the study.
• Implications for policymakers, and researchers.
• Advice and implications from a practice and intervention perspective for teachers working in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.