SA has more than 2,000 mental health workers who are specially trained to provide basic mental health services in communities without psychologists. WorldMentalHealthDay | via Bhekisisa_MG
The regulatory body couldn’t provideBhekisisa with updated information about where all these health workers have ended up, but 2007 research in thefound that only half of registered counsellors stay in the field, mostly because it’s so hard to find a job.and generally in more urban provinces such as Gauteng and the Western Cape.the study authors argueBy 2017, a quarter of 318 registered counsellorssaid they worked in the private sector.
In September, 33 registered counsellors were employed in Gauteng in clinics and community health centres, says the department’s spokesperson, Vuyo Sabani. In the Western Cape, spokesperson Mark van den Heever says 18 such counsellors are employed in primary health-care facilities.Created and abandoned — why new health worker categories fail. They’re tasked with training community health workers to support people’s mental health when they do home visits in communities.
But that’s as far as the paper trail goes for registered counsellors. There’s no rule that forces provincial health departments to prioritise these health workers when recruiting mental health staff. A similar fate befell the country’s clinical associates . Sanele Ngcobo, a clinical associate and family medicine researcher, says: “The health department creates these categories [which look good on paper] but there’s no clear direction on what to do with them, and how to use them in the health system.”
About half of clinical associates worked in the public sector between 2010 and 2017, according to data provided to the
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