Madill, A orcid.org/0000-0002-9406-507X, Shloim, N orcid.org/0000-0001-7548-5434, Brown, B et al. (3 more authors) (2022) Mainstreaming global mental health: Is there potential to embed psychosocial well-being impact in all global challenges research? Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 14 (4). pp. 1291-1313. ISSN 1758-0846
Abstract
We explore if there is potential to embed psychosocial well-being impact in global challenges research where the primary aims are not mental health related. We are interested in the use of material practices to deliver impact through routine project activities of working with concrete things together. The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) gateway to research was searched for information on Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grants from 2015 to May 2020. Analysis shows that only 3 per cent of projects self-categorise as engaging with mental health. Thirty-six non-mental health GCRF grants were purposefully sampled for diversity, and each was coded independently by two researchers for relevant information. Findings suggest that 50–70 per cent of non-mental health GCRF projects already engage implicitly, but nonstrategically, with psychosocial well-being impact; opportunities for psychosocial well-being impact, from most to least frequent, are community mobilisation, community building, skills development, positive sense of self, positive emotions and sociocultural identity; the presence of material practice from most to least frequent is as follows: (i) interactions between or enactments upon people, (ii) written materials or images, and (iii) objects; when a material practice was present, it was usually considered usable as a focus to enhance psychosocial well-being. Our study provides evidence that there are low hanging fruit opportunities to impact psychosocial well-being across Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through routine project activities.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 University of Leeds, UK. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association of Applied Psychology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | global development, global mental health, LMIC,mainstreaming, psychosocial well-being, sustainable development goals |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Healthcare (Leeds) > Counselling & Psychotherapy (SoH) (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) EP/T023813/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2021 15:50 |
Last Modified: | 31 Dec 2022 13:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/aphw.12335 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:181590 |