Engagement with service users |
Opportunities for socialization, participation in practice role plays, collaborative problem solving |
Included during multiple days of training |
Testimonial from service users |
Three-part testimonials developed through PhotoVoice training using photographs and personal stories to describe life before treatment, the experience of treatment, and life after treatment |
Testimonials provided separately for target disorders: depression, psychosis, alcohol use disorder, and epilepsy |
Testimonials from aspirational figures |
Three-part testimonials describing experiences and attitudes prior to mental health training, experiences of providing mental healthcare, and changes in attitude and behavior after starting delivery of mental health services |
One or two testimonials from health workers who previously participated in PRIME training and mental health service delivery |
Myth busting |
Eight common myths: mental illness cannot be treated; only some people can get mental illness; mental illnesses are contagious; mental illness can only be treated with shots and pills; giving advice is the same thing as doing psychological counseling; all people with mental illness are violent; if you ask someone about suicide, that increases the risk they will kill him/herself; caring for people with mental illness makes you mentally ill |
Delivered in one session by one aspirational primary care worker |
Didactic session on stigma and discrimination |
Definitions of stigma and discrimination; reasons for stigma and discrimination; addressing different causes of discrimination: peril stigma, occupational stigma, and social stigma |
Delivered in one session by a trained facilitator working for the PRIME implementation NGO (TPO Nepal) |