Title

Defining 'Help'

Description

Understanding cases of mental health adversity as different, or unique to the individual, is an essential first step to recognizing how we can more broadly define the treatments that people seek to engage with.

In Western medical frameworks like the United States, health professionals typically adopt two types of approaches to treatment: talking treatments (such as psychotherapy or cognitive behavioral therapy) or psychiatric medication (such as antidepressants or antipsychotics) (Mind, 2017).