Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges

Guided by international best practice and evidence-based medicine, the Qatar mental health service has undergone a major transformation in the last two decades, replacing the institution-based service with an accessible multidisciplinary community-based service. In this paper, we provide a brief...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Mohamed Ali Ahmed, Suhaila Ali Ghuloum
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN RU
Publicado:	Eco-Vector 2021
Materias:	community mental health care psychiatric services qatar primary mental health care assertive outreach mental health team Psychiatry RC435-571 Psychology BF1-990
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/31359115c7924b7196e92948b473424d
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:31359115c7924b7196e92948b473424d
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:31359115c7924b7196e92948b473424d2021-11-30T16:05:53ZQatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges2712-76722713-291910.17816/CP78https://doaj.org/article/31359115c7924b7196e92948b473424d2021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/viewFile/78/44https://doaj.org/toc/2712-7672https://doaj.org/toc/2713-2919Guided by international best practice and evidence-based medicine, the Qatar mental health service has undergone a major transformation in the last two decades, replacing the institution-based service with an accessible multidisciplinary community-based service. In this paper, we provide a brief historical background to mental health services in Qatar, and the progress and development towards community-based mental health-care provision. We also explore the challenges facing this new model of care in Qatar including social and cultural sensitivities, and the various solutions adopted to overcome these challenges. We outline the comprehensive plans envisaged to further develop Qatar community mental health services, including the provision of accessible, integrated and multimodal mental health care within primary care settings.Mohamed Ali AhmedSuhaila Ali GhuloumEco-Vectorarticlecommunity mental health carepsychiatric servicesqatarprimary mental health careassertive outreach mental health teamPsychiatryRC435-571PsychologyBF1-990ENRUConsortium Psychiatricum, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 76-80 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN RU
topic	community mental health care psychiatric services qatar primary mental health care assertive outreach mental health team Psychiatry RC435-571 Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	community mental health care psychiatric services qatar primary mental health care assertive outreach mental health team Psychiatry RC435-571 Psychology BF1-990 Mohamed Ali Ahmed Suhaila Ali Ghuloum Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges
description	Guided by international best practice and evidence-based medicine, the Qatar mental health service has undergone a major transformation in the last two decades, replacing the institution-based service with an accessible multidisciplinary community-based service. In this paper, we provide a brief historical background to mental health services in Qatar, and the progress and development towards community-based mental health-care provision. We also explore the challenges facing this new model of care in Qatar including social and cultural sensitivities, and the various solutions adopted to overcome these challenges. We outline the comprehensive plans envisaged to further develop Qatar community mental health services, including the provision of accessible, integrated and multimodal mental health care within primary care settings.
format	article
author	Mohamed Ali Ahmed Suhaila Ali Ghuloum
author_facet	Mohamed Ali Ahmed Suhaila Ali Ghuloum
author_sort	Mohamed Ali Ahmed
title	Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges
title_short	Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges
title_full	Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges
title_fullStr	Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges
title_full_unstemmed	Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges
title_sort	qatar community mental health care: achievements and challenges
publisher	Eco-Vector
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/31359115c7924b7196e92948b473424d
work_keys_str_mv	AT mohamedaliahmed qatarcommunitymentalhealthcareachievementsandchallenges AT suhailaalighuloum qatarcommunitymentalhealthcareachievementsandchallenges
_version_	1718406436304715776

Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges

Ejemplares similares