Task-shifting or problem-shifting? How lay counselling is redefining mental healthcare

• Liana Chase ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: liana.e.chase@durham.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0622-3101

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• Parbati Shrestha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Transcultural Psychosocial Organization-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Gaurav Datta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2872-5420

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• Nicky Forsythe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Talk for Health, London, United Kingdom

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• Sumeet Jain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7613-6284

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• Sujen Man Maharjan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Transcultural Psychosocial Organization-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5220-4553

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• Kaaren Mathias ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9607-9459

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• Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Applied Health Research, UCL, London, United Kingdom, Department of Anthropology, LSE, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5740-9283

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• Shubha Ranganathan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Telangana, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-2727

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• Sujan Shrestha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6000-0147

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• Kripa Sidgel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, Possible Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Prasansa Subba ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Datta, Nicky Forsythe, Sumeet Jain, Kaaren Mathias, Xandra Miguel-Lorenzo, Shubha Ranganathan, Sujan Shrestha, Kripa Sidgel, Prasansa Subba

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Transcultural Psychosocial Organization-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Primary Care and Mental Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Kamal Gautam,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Transcultural Psychosocial Organization-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9401-9359

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• Dristy Gurung ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ DG and MCN also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Health Services and Population Research, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Maura Cranny Ntow

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ DG and MCN also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2078-7045

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