Promoting family resilience in South Africa: a community psychological, multicultural counseling approach

Abstract

This article describes some projects in KwaZulu-Natal, which adopted a community psychological, multi-cultural counselling approach in promoting family resilience. Following definition of relevant concepts, the article describes the training of community psychologists and multicultural counsellors with special reference to the specialized doctoral programme, and the results of three specific family resilience projects.

Keywords: Community psychology, multicultural counselling, family resilience