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Early childhood experiences are the most significant predictor of mental health in later life.

Throughout the world, mental health receives considerably less public funding than physical health, despite the fact that mental ill-health leads to increased public health expenditure, reduced productivity, unemployment and poverty.

The relationship between poverty and mental ill-health is well established.  Access to preventative and therapeutic mental health services is a social justice issue.

Community Psychology

Ububele is a mental health training institute focusing on preventative strategies for children under the age of seven, their parents and other caregivers.  Ububele brings psychology into poor communities, whose mental health needs are not adequately provided for by the state.

Training in psychosocial care and support is offered to psychotherapists, social workers, social auxiliary workers, nurses, pre-school teachers, child care workers and lay counsellors. The programmes are informed by a blend of Western psychoanalytic thinking and African indigenous knowledge systems.