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Academic Research
A model of community youth mental health support services in the global South: A description and use of school-based services delivered by a non-governmental organisation in South Africa
Authors: S Human, M. E. Loades, H Gericke, G Laning, M Bartlett, B. J. Coetzee, 2024
Debate: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Addressing the mental health crisis among young people in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Authors: Bronwyne Coetzee, Maria Loades
Tackling South Africa’s teen mental health crisis
As part of her PhD research Mkhize adapted and tested a World Health Organization (WHO) intervention called Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE), and Chesney Ward-Smith tested the adolescent #FeelThinkMove (#FTM) Programme)
News article discussing research by the UCT Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, PhD candidates Mirriam Mkhize and Chesney Ward-Smith, 2024
An investigation into symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation among older adolescents from low-income settings in South Africa
C Ward-Smith, K Sorsdahl and C van der Westhuizen, 2024
Prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety among young school-going adolescents in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Mirriam Mkhize, Claire van der Westhuizen and Katherine Sorsdahl, 2024
The impact of the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic on referral patterns and therapeutic service provision for children and young people’s psychosocial distress in a Low-or Middle-Income Country: A service evaluation of routinely collected data from a non-government organisation operating in schools in the Western Cape, South Africa
Authors: Emma Wilson, Maria E Loades, Suzanne Human, Bronwyne Coetzee, Hermine Gericke, Gerrit Laning, 2024
South African youth’s understanding of feelings, thoughts and behaviours: Implications for the development of CBT-based mental health interventions
Authors: Suzanne Human, Hermine Gericke, Maria Loades, Paul Stallard and Bronwynè J. Coetzee, 2022
What should a Universal School-Based Psychoeducational Programme to Support Psychological Well-Being amongst Children and Young People in South Africa Focus on and how should it be Delivered? A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Authors: Bronwynè J. Coetzee, Hermine Gericke, Suzanne Human, Paul Stallard, Maria Loades, 2021
Universal school-based mental health programmes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
Authors: Melissa Bradshaw, Hermine Gericke, Bronwynè J. Coetzee, Paul Stallard, Suzanne Human, Maria Loades, 2021
A description highlighting the psychosocial problems experienced by learners in three secondary schools in the Western Cape
Authors: Philip Geldenhuys Annemarie Youngleson, 2010
A multidimensional perspective on the family experiences and perceptions of male youth offenders. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University (MA thesis)
Author: Philip Geldenhuys, 2007