Theme 06
Mental Health & Community
Understanding wellbeing beyond the individual
Explore how psychological wellbeing and trauma recovery are shaped by social, historical, geographic and structural conditions. This theme creates an important bridge between individual clinical care and wider questions about inequality, community wellbeing and global mental health.
- marginalised communities
- structural violence
- intergenerational trauma
- community psychology
- health inequity
- social determinants of mental health
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Plain-language publication summary2025
Understanding wellbeing beyond the individual
Provides a detailed methodology and explores how community-centred, feminist and restorative approaches can support trauma recovery by strengthening connection, agency and embodied healing among survivors of childhood sexual trauma in marginalised communities.
From the publication
Healing Bodies, Healing Communities: A Community-Based Qualitative Study of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Trauma in South Africa. Healthcare, 13(20), 2601, 2025.Plain-language publication summary2026
Rethinking how trauma care is provided
Develops a qualitative Integrative Trauma-Informed Care model for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, highlighting tailored, equitable trauma recovery that responds to individual needs and the realities of marginalised South African communities.
From the publication
A Qualitative Model for Integrative Trauma-Informed Care for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Marginalized South African Communities. Health Psychology Research, 14(1), e81240046, 2026.
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The six themes
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