Friendship bench
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friendship-bench-166-5844847
title:
Friendship bench
text:
The Friendship Bench programme is a Zimbabwean community-based mental health intervention where trained community health workers 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. The programme was founded by Dixon Chibanda in 2006, and was developed over a 20-year period of co
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Zimbabwean mental health program
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_bench
date created:
2006-10-07T09:48:31Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T06:20:26Z
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