Thinking healthy: a manual for psychosocial management of perinatal depression, WHO generic field-trial version 1.0, 2015

This is a manual for training community health workers on how to support mothers with depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioral techniques that are recommended by the mhGAP program. The innovative manual was developed in Pakistan and later applied in many other countries. WHO in collaboration with Prof Rahman and with the advice from an international group of experts, has now produced a generic version of the manual for global use. I hope that you will use this manual, after necessary adaptions for your context and share your feedback with us so that we can further strengthen future revisions.