Mental Health African Understandings, Models and Interventions

This book is suitable for lecturers and students doing certificate, diploma, bachelor, master and doctoral courses, as well as practitioners working with African communities in Africa and the diaspora. The highlights are:Brings together Fourteen chapters by scholars and practitioners from across the African continent and its diaspora. Grounded in the overarching African philosophy of Ubuntu which is set as the conceptual foundation throughout, with a dedicated chapter on Ubuntu-grounded pedagogy for teaching African understandings of mental health. The inclusion of specialised frameworks, an annotated bibliography, and a mental health index is a key strength that provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary reference tools for readers. Covers assessment tools, models and frameworks developed specifically for African contexts, including locally developed interventions such as the Friendship Bench and African Computerized Adaptive Test (AFRICAT). Addresses mental health across the lifespan and across settings, including schools, prisons, communities and diaspora populations in Australia, with chapters set across eSwatini, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Nigeria and South Africa. Each chapter closes with case examples grounded in African family and communal structures. Written and peer reviewed by scholars and practitioners, with every chapter undergoing a decolonisation review. A fuller subject index is provided for locating key concepts, models and frameworks throughout the