Lesotho

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Additional Centres/Group Practices

Stress Management Centre

MM Psychological Services

There is no available information on background and context about counselling in Lesotho.

There is no available information on current regulatory status about counselling in Lesotho.

• The WHO, a specialized UN agency plays a key role in directing, coordinating, and supporting a wide spectrum of health related activities in Lesotho.These include the strengthening of health planning and management, development of human resources, programmes such as AIDS control, mental health, school sanitation, disaster preparedness, community participation and family health, including safe motherhood. Numerous other agencies and international organizations have supplied assistants and made funding contributions, while private and public organizations are also largely responsible for health services in Lesotho. In particular, nine of the 18 HSA hospitals are owned and run by churches linked through the Christian Association of Lesotho.

• External organizations 

• Stigma 
• Not enough resources 
• Infectious diseases such as HIV and TB, and their treatments, are significantly affected by mental health, and mental illness.

For more information about the counselling profession in the state, interested readers are encouraged to read the following journal and website articles:

• Treating Mind and Body: Mental Health Care Expanding in Lesotho. (2018, July 24).
• Partners in Health.