A preliminary study of educational intervention program for alternative mental health practitioners

Objective: This paper is based on an original doctoral study on the subject of ethnopsychiatry, which looked into the aspects of comparative management by the psychiatrists and ethnotherapists in relation to mental illness. It emerged that the ethnotherapeutic treatment was beneficial in some aspects but hazardous in many others. It was decided to conduct a training program for selected ethnotherapists with the aim of bringing a change in their …