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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, 2024Debate: 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 LoadesTackling 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, 2024The 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, 2024Four Steps To My Future (4STMF): acceptability, feasibility and exploratory outcomes of a universal school‐based mental health and well‐being programme, delivered to young adolescents in South Africa in Child and Adolescent Mental HealthAuthors: Bronwynè Coetzee, Maria Loades, Suzanne Human, Hermine Gericke, Gerrit Laning, Martin Kidd, Paul Stallard, 2023
4 Steps To My Future (4STMF): protocol for a universal school-based pilot and feasibility study of a CBT-based psychoeducational intervention to support psychological well-being amongst young adolescents in the Western Cape, South AfricaAuthors: Bronwynè J. Coetzee, Maria E. Loades, Suzanne Human, Hermine Gericke, Helene Loxton, Gerrit Laning, Naomi Myburg and Paul Stallard, 2022
South African youth’s understanding of feelings, thoughts and behaviours: Implications for the development of CBT-based mental health interventionsAuthors: Suzanne Human, Hermine Gericke, Maria Loades, Paul Stallard and Bronwynè J. Coetzee, 2022What 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, 2021Universal 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, 2021A description highlighting the psychosocial problems experienced by learners in three secondary schools in the Western Cape
Authors: Philip Geldenhuys Annemarie Youngleson, 2010A multidimensional perspective on the family experiences and perceptions of male youth offenders. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University (MA thesis)Author: Philip Geldenhuys, 2007
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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 AfricaAuthors: S Human, M. E. Loades, H Gericke, G Laning, M Bartlett, B. J. Coetzee, 2024
A multidimensional perspective on the family experiences and perceptions of male youth offenders. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University (MA thesis)Author: Philip Geldenhuys, 2007