Ambuya Utano (Community Grandmother) having a problem-solving therapy session on the Friendship Bench in Harare, Zimbabwe
The Friendship Bench programme is a Zimbabwean community-based mental health intervention where trained community health workers (known as "grandmothers") sit on wooden park "Friendship Benches" set up at primary health care clinics or safe community spaces and provide structured problem-solving talk therapy to community members who come looking for mental health support or are referred by nurses or other community members.[1]
The programme was founded by Dixon Chibanda in 2006, and was developed over a 20-year period of community-based research to bridge the mental health treatment gap.[2][3][4][5] Friendship Bench offers what has been seen as an effective, simple, cost-effective option to provide evidence-based mental health care in under-resourced settings.
^"The Friendship Bench Training Manual". Mental Health Innovation Network. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
^Chibanda, Dixon; Mesu, Petra; Kajawu, Lazarus; Cowan, Frances; Araya, Ricardo; Abas, Melanie A. (2011-10-26). "Problem-solving therapy for depression and common mental disorders in Zimbabwe: piloting a task-shifting primary mental health care intervention in a population with a high prevalence of people living with HIV". BMC Public Health. 11 (1): 828. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-828. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 3210104. PMID 22029430.
^Chibanda, Dixon; Bowers, Tarryn; Verhey, Ruth; Rusakaniko, Simbarashe; Abas, Melanie; Weiss, Helen A.; Araya, Ricardo (2015-05-23). "The Friendship Bench programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders delivered by lay health workers in Zimbabwe". International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 9 (1): 21. doi:10.1186/s13033-015-0013-y. ISSN 1752-4458. PMC 4940904. PMID 27408619.
^Abas, Melanie; Bowers, Tarryn; Manda, Ethel; Cooper, Sara; Machando, Debra; Verhey, Ruth; Lamech, Neha; Araya, Ricardo; Chibanda, Dixon (2016-05-11). "'Opening up the mind': problem-solving therapy delivered by female lay health workers to improve access to evidence-based care for depression and other common mental disorders through the Friendship Bench Project in Zimbabwe". International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 10 (1): 39. doi:10.1186/s13033-016-0071-9. ISSN 1752-4458. PMC 4865009. PMID 27175215.
^Kotifani, Aislinn (2018-12-26). "A Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe is Starting a Revolution in Mental Health". Blue Zones. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
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