How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Simar Bajaj is a science journalist in Oxford, UK. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar A client (left) has a counselling session with a lay therapist on a Friendship Bench in Harare.Credit: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Kisumu, Kenya As the bells ring out at Archbishop Okoth Ojolla Girls’ High School, 900 students descend onto a field, carrying brightly coloured chairs. Every week for a month, the students have been gathering in small groups as local secondary-school graduates lead therapy sessions. Whitney Ndemo, a psychologist at TINADA Youth A

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How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis

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