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    Indigenous literature as a tool to promote children’s psychological well-being
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2024-03) Bassett, Nicola; Conradie, Karlien; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Educational Psychology.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Children’s psychological well-being is a neglected aspect of universal and specific support interventions both globally and within South Africa. Despite the prevalence of psychosocial challenges in South Africa, there are limited mental health providers able to support children. This lack of support calls for increasing culturally sensitive, community-based preventative mental health services which engage social-ecological stakeholders. Book sharing or bibliotherapy is a potential lay person’s intervention that could promote children’s psychological well-being. This study employed a Qualitative Systematic Literature Review to synthesise the best available evidence exploring the aspects of children’s psychological well-being that can be promoted using indigenous literature. Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems model, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework for social emotional learning and Carol Ryff’s theory on the six dimensions of psychological well-being were used as complementary theories to conceptualise children’s contextual development, social emotional learning and psychological well-being. Through the process of thematic analysis, four themes emerged, confirming that high-quality culturally responsive indigenous children’s literature can be used as a social emotional learning tool by lay social ecological stakeholders to promote children’s psychological wellbeing. These findings were synthesised to formulate a practical parent/teacher resource – ‘Culturally Responsive Book Screening and Book Sharing’. This resource is intended to provide guidance to parents, teachers and other social-ecological stakeholders in selecting, screening and sharing indigenous children’s books to promote children’s psychological wellbeing.