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lmbali Guidance Project: Facilitating Development among Guidance Educators in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa

Journal of Social Development in Africa

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Title lmbali Guidance Project: Facilitating Development among Guidance Educators in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa
 
Creator Goedeke, Sonja
 
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Description A project to assist guidance educators in developing their skills, resources and confidence in providing a mental health service to the learners in their schools, was set up as part of a wider school-based reform initiative. The project was structured according to the principles of community psychology: community collaboration and participation, empowerment, a needs-based approach, cultural sensitivity, a preventative/health promotion emphasis, and an awareness of the context in which individuals live and the macro system issues that may influence their everyday lives. Teachers reported feeling empowered both personally and professionally by the project, and that the service delivery to learners had improved. The experiences in this project affirmed the role of psychology in serving under-resourced and disadvantaged communities, and the value of a community psychology orientation in South Africa. Although the project enjoyed success in the short-term and adhered to many of the practices espoused by community psychology, the failure of the project to more fully address the socio -economic and political context creates uncertainty whether the positive benefit of the project can be sustained. Long-term follow-up will be needed to adequately assess this.

Journal of Social Development in Africa Vol 15 No 1 2000, pp. 27-48
 
Publisher School of Social Work, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
 
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Date 2000-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
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Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsda/article/view/23852
10.4314/jsda.v15i1.23852
 
Source Journal of Social Development in Africa; Vol 15, No 1 (2000)
1012-1080
 
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