Challenges:
The mental health care system has not yet caught up with the European standard, although past political repression and persecution has led to widespread mental disorders.
Moreover, psychotherapeutic treatments are still only accessible to a fraction of the population. There is a need of establishing formal procedures of training as it has been done with psychotherapy for example. It is a grey area in determining who is monitoring counselling services in Albamia and how this is being implemented.
Trends:
People are asking for counselling services and this is a great change occurring in 5 last years, but there is a gap in the quality of what is being offered. Most of the reliable services offering psychological counselling are those who are run by professionals who have studied abroad.