Gain insights into a functioning public mental health system with child and adolescent psychiatrist Sue Hawkridge's SAPC Dialogue. Understand the roles of different care levels and community carers, and identify transferable lessons and challenges relevant to Australian psychologists working within their own healthcare frameworks.
Child and Adolescent psychiatrist, Sue Hawkridge, describes how the South African public mental health system works. She gives an outline of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary levels of care and how they are meant to work together to treat health issues in the community and where this goes wrong. She also explores what the role of community and home-based carers in treating the communities. She further unpacks some of the challenges faced in getting adequate mental health care to the population.
SAPC Dialogues: Introduction to Public Mental Health