Dr. Richard Appiah, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for African Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy and the Department of Psychology at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana, recently published a paper on the extant literature and on insights from designing, implementing, and evaluating group-based (mental) health behavior change intervention programs across several communities in Ghana, to discuss a range of sociocultural, theoretical, and methodological issues that can significantly constrain the design, uptake, and effectiveness of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in the rural, low literate, socioeconomically disadvantaged, highly collectivistic context of Ghana, and sub-Saharan Africa more generally.

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