UW News
Kevin King
January 22, 2020
Community-based counselors help mitigate grief, stress among children orphaned in East Africa
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The University of Washington led a clinical trial involving more than 600 children in Kenya and Tanzania, in which community members were trained to deliver mental health treatment, showed improvement in participants’ trauma-related symptoms up to a year after receiving therapy.