Global initiative for stress and trauma treatment - traumatic stress relief training for allied and para-professionals to treat traumatic stress in underserved populations: A case study

Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face a shortage of mental health professionals to cope with the burden of traumatic stress (TS). In an attempt to build capacity amongst allied and paraprofessionals, the Global Initiative for Stress and Trauma Treatment developed a four-day AIP-informed training package (Traumatic Stress Relief). In this paper, we study the feasibility and acceptability of this training package in East Africa.