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Publication Embargo Mentorship in Global Mental Health(Taylor and Francis, 2023-01-01) Kohrt, B.A; Citrin, D; Gauchan, B; Gurung, D; Sangraula, M; Mutamba, B.B; Kaiser, B.N; Elnasseh, A; Tesfaye, M; Girma, E; Abeysinghe, N; Rimal, P; De Jong, J.T.V.MThis chapter advocates for a mentorship framework that is not solely focused on individual self-promotion but is grounded in addressing the global gap in equity for access to and use of quality mental health services. Engaging with this global mission can best be initiated from a position of humility and reflexivity that should be cultivated in the mentoring relationship. Moreover, transforming mental health services worldwide will only be achieved through equitable, transparent, and sustainable collaborations. Mentorship that is embedded in such collaborations should focus on how to build and maintain these relationships. Ultimately, to achieve the goals of global mental health, institutions will need to make equity, including gender and other types of equity, a top priority in mentorship programs. Mentor–mentee relationships in global mental health should be grounded in the mission to promote equity in access to and use of quality mental health services. Mentors should model and promote key competencies of humility and reflexivity, development and maintenance of strong collaborations, and participatory research skills to identify locally salient clinical and community needs. To assure equitable global mental health careers for women, mentors should establish mandatory gender-sensitivity training for researchers, develop leadership packages for women, and promote equal decision-making power between female and male supervisors.Publication Open Access Where Ethics and Culture Collide: Ethical Dilemmas in Grief Work Following the Easter Sunday Attacks in Sri Lanka(Springer, Cham, 2021-05-23) Abeysinghe, N; Ekanayake, E. SThe success of mental health care for individuals and affected communities is strongly connected to the service providers' adherence to ethical standards of the profession. These ethical standards aim to ensure the safety, well-being and the best possible quality of service to the service users. As trainees and novice counsellors, these aspects are discussed and learned in detail during counsellor training programmes and other courses in mental health care. Continued professional supervision is considered an essential element of providing mental health care within an ethical framework by almost all the counsellor and mental health-care professional bodies in the world. Yet, this is practiced by few practitioners in low- and middle-income countries due to the shortage of trained, accessible, experienced supervisors. In this chapter, we discuss the importance of continued supervision in a changing sociocultural context to help mental health practitioners to be alert and prompt to safeguard the clients and ensure the best possible care for them when cultural aspects and ethical standards of client care are in conflict as they some times are.