Latest articles on Mental Health

Happiness is too important to leave to chance

Opinion Kutlwano Sello - 2 Sep 2020

Newfound clarity on the important things in life has been hailed as a silver lining of this crisis. Planning a future around ‘purpose, passion and pay’ may be the key to having it all

The unbearable sadness of lockdown

Coronavirus Ramneek Ahluwalia - 5 Aug 2020

Loneliness can seem like a hopeless hole that increases anxiety, depression, fears or thoughts of suicide

We can’t expect learners and teachers to function optimally right now

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 1 Jul 2020

It may well be that we have warm bodies in schools, but to think their minds are highly productive is a reach

Black youth can’t wait until tomorrow

Coronavirus Ashley Visagie - 18 Jun 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the raw realities of South Africa’s under-resourced public schools

Academics’ health suffers under Covid-19

Coronavirus Brightness Mangolothi & Lynne Rippenaar-Moses - 5 Jun 2020

More than ever, higher education institutions need to look after employees’ mental wellbeing

Eusebius McKaiser: I’m afraid of Covid-19 and that’s okay

Coronavirus Eusebius McKaiser - 20 May 2020

We are humans, not just numbers, and we need to tell people’s stories and acknowledge our fears

Social workers are an untapped resource to address the psychosocial effects of Covid-19

Article Shahana Rasool - 13 Apr 2020

What the government seems to have missed is that we are facing not just a medical crisis, but a psychosocial predicament that may have far-reaching consequences

The collective psychology of Covid-19

Article Alex Evans - 19 Mar 2020

How we respond will determine how well we, and other people around us, survive the current crisis

Wear the weight of emotions

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 12 Mar 2020

With vulnerability being the work's primary reference, the ceramic jewellery made and designed by Githan Coopoo is more than adornment

4.6 million people, one psychologist: The Central African Republic’s mental health crisis

Africa Will Baxter & Simon Allison - 6 Mar 2020

Meet the Central African Republic’s only practising clinical psychologist

Let’s talk about workplace racism

Article Tshidiso Tolla - 29 Jan 2020

It cannot be that, 25 years after democracy, young black professionals still have to deal with racism. We owe it to the next generation of young black professionals to expose even the subtlest forms of discrimination and racism

Drought, depression and decolonisation

Article Georgina Kenyon - 29 Oct 2019

The Eastern Cape government recently declared the province a drought disaster area. And as the climate crisis worsens, so does our mental health

Are universities pathologising student issues?

Article Linda Eskell Blokland - 11 Oct 2019

Conventional therapy is relied on when social and peer-to-peer interventions may be the answer

How do we support teachers’ mental health?

Article Cayleigh Bright - 11 Oct 2019

It's vital for those who safeguard the wellbeing of learners at every level to be happy and healthy themselves

Mental healthcare must back peace efforts

Africa Maggie Litgen - 13 Sep 2019

Examples from Rwanda and Sierra Leone can be incorporated into transitional justice frameworks

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