Youth perspectives of working with near peer youth lay counsellors: The Safe Haven Pilot

IF 2 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of community psychology Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI:10.1002/jcop.23080

Anna Garriott, Godwill Gulubane, Ohemaa B. Poku, Nicole Archibald, Patlo Entaile, Ontibile Tshume, Onkemetse Phoi, Mogomotsi Matshaba, Charisse V. Ahmed, Elizabeth D. Lowenthal, Merrian Brooks

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Abstract

Youth living with HIV (YLWH) have higher rates of common mental disorders (CMDs) when compared with HIV-negative youth. We adapted the Friendship Bench to create a problem solving-based counselling intervention in Botswana delivered by near peer youth lay counsellors for YLWH called Safe Haven. In August 2020, and from June to August 2021, we conducted 22 semistructured interviews with youth aged 13–25 years with mild-to-moderate symptoms of CMDs. Two independent coders carried out an inductive thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews with discrepancies discussed to consensus. Safe Haven was seen as largely acceptable among the youth. Youth felt Safe Haven was a place where they had freedom of expression and could receive practical advice from well-trained and approachable counsellors. Trained youth lay peer counsellors show promise to meet the mental health needs of mild and moderately symptomatic youth, where mental health professionals are in short supply.

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青年的观点与近同龄人青年非专业辅导员工作:安全港试点

与艾滋病毒阴性的青年相比，艾滋病毒感染者(YLWH)的常见精神障碍(cmd)发病率更高。我们改编了“友谊长椅”，在博茨瓦纳创建了一个以问题解决为基础的咨询干预项目，该项目由青年青年wh的近同龄人青年非专业顾问提供，名为“避风港”。在2020年8月和2021年6月至8月，我们对13-25岁有轻中度慢性阻塞性肺病症状的青年进行了22次半结构化访谈。两名独立编码员对记录的访谈进行了归纳性专题分析，并对差异进行了讨论，以达成共识。安全港被认为在很大程度上被年轻人所接受。青年觉得避风港是一个他们可以自由表达意见的地方，他们可以从训练有素、平易近人的辅导员那里得到实际的建议。受过训练的青年外行同伴咨询师有望满足轻度和中度症状青年的心理健康需求，在这些地方，心理健康专业人员供不应求。

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Journal of community psychology Multiple-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

8.70%

发文量

195

期刊介绍： The Journal of Community Psychology is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to research, evaluation, assessment and intervention, and review articles that deal with human behavior in community settings. Articles of interest include descriptions and evaluations of service programs and projects, studies of youth, parenting, and family development, methodology and design for work in the community, the interaction of groups in the larger community, and criminals and corrections.