Table 1.

The main responsibilities of peer counsellors

• Receiving eligible participants, getting consent, conducting pre-group counselling and documenting participants’ physical address and telephone number

• Forming IPT groups, setting a meeting date, time and place

• Evaluating depressive symptoms of each participant, taking attendance notes

• Facilitating the group counselling (conducting problem inventory, encouraging participants to generate possible solutions, make decision analysis, set strategies, providing guidance and counselling)

• Referring clients who refused to participate in the group IPT and transferring severely sick or dangerous clients to the psychiatric clinic