Current Areas for Development

Many South Asian Counties that fall under the LAMIC category have many barriers to mental health provision such as :

• a lack of comprehensive and coherent mental health legislation or lack of frameworks to support such legislation.
• unaddressed or ill-defined areas such involuntary initialization and hospitalisation needs
• outdated understanding of current knowledge in service delivery, for example helping services and professionals to discriminate between mental illness and developmental disabilities
• poor record keeping, monitoring, and training in human rights (both in general and for users of mental health services) leading to ineffective service delivery
• lack of inclusion of updated scientific findings to practice, an overreliance on historical approaches to mental health such a medication and hospitalisation
• stigmatisation

What is needed for these regions is capacity building in mental health research through international collaborations linking basic research to practice.