Neat News 1173 (added 2019-03-18)

Friendship bench - grandmothers against depression

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An African psychiatrist explains why he is training grandmothers to treat depression. At a rate of about one psychiatrist per one million people in his country there is not the capacity to give every person with depression the necessary attention. Training grandmothers means they can provide much needed help on a friendship bench.

News seen at: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Article not found online)