Critical psychology and the problem of mental health

Nell, Victor

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“…Johnson (1991) found that female officers scored relatively high on exhaustion, whereas males scored relatively high on mental distance, while Kop, Euwema, and Schaufeli (1999) found no difference between male and female police officers. Edwards (1989) and Nell (1994) perceived lower levels of psychological well-being among Black people. Hobfoll and Lilly (1993) found that resistance resources were lower in Black communities.…”

Section: Work-related Well-being and Background Variablesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Work-related well-being in the South African Police Service

Mostert

Rothmann

2006

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Section: Work-related Well-being and Background Variablesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Work-related well-being in the South African Police Service

Mostert

Rothmann

2006

Journal of Criminal Justice

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“…Further, she has found that the bureaucratic power relations extant in society and pervading the health system are replicated in the patient-nurse relationship. The consequent victim-blaming, paternalistic and authoritarian climate traps patients in a role of passivity, disempowerment and socialises them in the medical discourse of subservient patient (Nell, 1994;Seedat & Nell, 1992). Lazarus (1988) also cautioned that the medicalisation of pathology and deficits is antithetical to an empowerment and competency building approach in service delivery.…”

Section: The Context For Mental Health In South Africamentioning

confidence: 97%

Broadening Mental Health Services to Disadvantaged Communities in South Africa: Reflections on Establishing a Community Based Internship

Wyk

Naidoo

2006

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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The need to provide mental health services in disadvantaged communities remains a priority in South Africa. This paper illustrates how in consultation and partnership with the peri-urban community of Jamestown, a counselling psychology internship was established to provide a range of mental health services at a primary health clinic. We describe how the internship also became an important catalyst for other community interventions. We also illustrate how values of community psychology informed the establishment and foci of the internship. Tensions encountered in reconciling community needs and professional training requirements discussed include the lack of resources at the primary health care level, the bio-medical bias of the primary health setting, and addressing the needs articulated by the community for more direct interventions.

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“…Drawing on the lessons learnt from her engagements in these commissions, Lazarus (2001) argued that in young democracies like South Africa, community psychologists can make meaningful contributions toward informing and monitoring new social policy developments and debates in social policy. Lazarus (2001) suggests that community psychologists can use their privileged positions to ensure that social policy development remains people-centered without compromising their critical and reflexive roles (Lazarus, 2001;Nell, 1996).…”

Section: Transformation Democracy and Community Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Community psychology in South Africa: origins, developments, and manifestations

Seedat

Lazarus

2014

South African Journal of Psychology

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This article represents a South African contribution to the growing international body of knowledge on histories of community psychology. We trace the early antecedents of social-community psychology interventions and describe the social forces and academic influences that provided the impetus for the emergence and development of community psychology in South Africa. We then draw on various sources, including undocumented small histories of organized groups and individuals, to present on account of the emergence, development, and focus of community psychology in South Africa. We also very briefly describe community-focused work in other selected African countries. In the penultimate section, we take a critical look at the notions of "community" embedded in community psychology practice in South Africa, and then by way of conclusion, we describe the trajectory of community psychology and speculate about its future in the country.Despite the increasing levels of plurality and diversity in the global manifestations of community psychology theory and practice, the African scholarly and academic voice remains marginal within international knowledge creation agencies and in publications that enjoy a global research reputation (Seedat & MacKenzie, 2008;Seedat, MacKenzie, & Stevens, 2004). It would be naïve to suggest that the gap is simply a mark of malicious intent or inadvertent omission on the part of the discipline's leadership, reviewers, and editors to exclude African and other-than-White voices from such publications and knowledge production. A more nuanced reading would locate and

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Critical psychology and the problem of mental health

Abstract: This paper reviews psychological treatment and mental health.

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Work-related well-being in the South African Police Service

Work-related well-being in the South African Police Service

Broadening Mental Health Services to Disadvantaged Communities in South Africa: Reflections on Establishing a Community Based Internship

Community psychology in South Africa: origins, developments, and manifestations

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