Recognise
Strengthen the ability of non-specialist clinicians to identify common mental-health needs.
Our work / Clinical care
Care begins where people already are.
Culturally responsive mental-health practice strengthened through clinicians, general healthcare and the relationships people already trust.
The central idea
Clinical knowledge becomes most useful when it can travel beyond specialist settings.
SAWAB’s clinical work connects psychiatric knowledge with the realities of everyday care. It supports identification and management of common mental disorders through the clinicians and systems already present in communities.
The approach is integrated rather than isolated: mental health sits alongside general healthcare, neurorehabilitation, family wellbeing and longer-term recovery.
How the work moves
A clinical practice built around reach, context and continuity.
Integrate
Connect mental-health care with general healthcare and rehabilitation rather than treating it as a separate world.
Continue
Hold care as a relationship that develops through follow-up, learning and trust.
Selected evidence
Go deeper into the work.
A focused selection of original reports, studies and programme records connected to this field.
MSF / University of Kashmir / IMHANS
Muntazar: Kashmir Mental Health Survey Report 2015
A valley-wide survey of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, daily functioning and access to mental-health services.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
A lay health-worker model for youth mental health — Part I
How a community mental-health model was adapted and implemented with trained lay health workers in Kashmir.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
A lay health-worker model for youth mental health — Part II
The companion results paper examining the effectiveness of the adapted community model.
Community Mental Health Journal / PubMed Central
Dua Ti Dawa Ti
An inquiry into psychological distress, local help-seeking and community mental-health service needs in Kashmir.
Wider field context
Care seen from the field.
Two independent MSF field accounts provide additional context for the evolution of community mental-health support in Kashmir.
Médecins Sans Frontières
Bringing mental-health care to Kashmir
Context on community counselling, awareness and the long work of bringing care closer to people.
Médecins Sans Frontières
Bringing mental-health support to Kashmir
A field account of mental-health support and the need for accessible services across Kashmir.
In the public record
The work, as it was reported.
These reports offer a contemporaneous view of the needs, ideas and collaborations behind the work.
Explore the full press archiveMental hospital shrinks as patients multiply
An early record of rising patient numbers, crowded wards and the need for trained staff, public awareness and humane mental-health care.
ClinicalImpactHistory
Awareness, not ignorance, is the key
A long-form conversation with Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Margoob on stigma, trauma, public education and the conditions shaping mental health in Kashmir.
ClinicalCommunityPublic education
Scars of war
A field report from Srinagar's psychiatric hospital on conflict-related distress, the rising need for care and the people working inside a stretched system.
ClinicalImpactTrauma
Psychiatric problems on the rise in Kashmir
Reporting on increasing mental-health needs in Kashmir and the pressure placed on specialist care and community support systems.
ClinicalImpactAccess
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Places of care
Beyond formal psychiatric settings.
Homes, general healthcare settings and rehabilitation environments can all become part of a considered route to support.
See how care moves through communityContinue through the connected domains.
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