Weathering the Storm: Climate and Mental Health Resilience in South Africa - A Global Mental Health Seminar

The next instalment of our Global Mental Health Seminar - Global Mental Health (GMH) is a topic that is concerned with addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. GMH argues for providing universal access to mental health care through the ‘scaling up’ of services and expertise in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

This is a free event, open to all, and will be held via MsTeams. This event will not be recorded.

The first half of the seminar will focus on Resilience and mental health: Learning from South African youth in stressed communities, hosted by Linda Theron.

Linda Theron (D.Ed., guidance & counselling) is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Pretoria, SA; an HPCSA-registered Educational Psychologist; an extraordinary professor in the Optentia Research Unit, North-West University, SA; and an affiliate professor in the Centre for Resilience & Socio-emotional Health, University of Malta, Malta.

Her clinical and research interest is in African youth resilience to structural violence, with special interest in the multisystemic, contextually responsive resources that play into youth wellbeing. Linda’s track-record of funded studies and 150+ publications align with this interest, as do the studies of 60+ post-graduate students whom she has mentored to completion. Currently, Linda holds a Wellcome Discovery Award to lead a multi-site, multi-year, interdisciplinary investigation into the multisystemic roots of resilience to depression among young people who are NEET (i.e., not in education, employment or training).

The second half of the seminar will focus on Beyond the Individual: Storying a New Kind of Resilience, hosted by Shelot Masithi.

Shelot Masithi is the Founder and Executive Director of She4Earth, driving innovative, data-driven solutions in water resilience and climate adaptation. With a focused mission on clean and accessible water, She4Earth equips communities and organisations to tackle water scarcity challenges through targeted initiatives that ensure a water-resilient future.

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