There is limited information on the counselling service that has been given in the research aspect. Moreover, there are neither prescriptive of the status of mental health throughout the country, nor fully reliable. Many of them are based on self-reporting questionnaires, or other forms of methodology, which could be contested because of a lack of cross-cultural validity.
According to the government facilities/services there are a total of nine psychologists and 15 trainee psychologists attached to the Psychiatry Department of the Juba Teaching Hospital (JTH) and only two South Sudanese psychiatrists in country one is practising currently and is in charge of psychiatry at the JTH, whereas the other is based at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Juba. For a population of more than 11 million, there are minimal outpatient facilities available, and only 12 inpatient beds in Juba. Two other facilities, Malakal and Wau Teaching Hospitals in Upper Nile Counties and Western Bahr el Ghazal, respectively, provide outpatient care; serious cases are admitted to a general inpatient ward in the hospitals. In the non-governmental services there are nine private clinics with varying degrees of mental healthcare available in Juba (Mental Health Platform South Sudan, 2015).