Culturally Sensitive Group Talk Therapy in Africa | Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu | TEDxEustonSalon

How do you provide mental health support for communities that shame such needs? Ethel provides an answer - culturally sensitive group talk. By adopting this idea to the African experience, she finds a way to provide help and healing to a community in need. Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu MD, PhD is a Senior Lecturer, Psychiatric epidemiologist and MQ Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine.

Her research funded by Grand Challenges Canada and MQ Transforming Mental Health has focused on developing and strengthening the evidence for culturally appropriate Group Talk Therapy as a first line treatment for depression in people with HIV in rural areas.

Presently, she is training community health workers to deliver group therapy in villages. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx