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On 19 April 2018, the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) launched the South African practice guidelines for psychology professionals working with sexually and gender-diverse people. The launch was held at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and attended by 120 people, including many leading scholars, practitioners and community activists in the fields of sexuality, gender and reproductive health.

From the limited data available, at least 10 to 20% of 5 to 17 year old children and adolescents suffer from a mental health disorder, which often persists into adulthood (Flisher et al., 2012; Stancheva, 2018). Over the past few years, the prevalence and diagnoses of child and adolescent mental disorders have escalated, resulting in parents, teachers, and health professionals becoming increasingly concerned.

Working in the field of Critical Diversity Literacy (CDL) it is an inevitable moment when one must interrogate the role and place of diversity in any field and context. The questions that we must ask ourselves pertain to the issues of relevance – both of our different disciplinary backgrounds to the team as well as in how these disciplinary backgrounds can be critically brought to bear on making society a better place. Given my location in the discipline of Psychology, I am interested in Psychology’s potential for relevance, disruption of the status quo and collaboration potential with other disciplines.

The recent discussion between Eusebius McKaiser and Mazibuko K Jara on the place of liberalism in South Africa sparked an interesting question on mental health provision in a liberal democracy such as ours. In reading these discussions, I was reminded about a simple and yet incisive point about liberalism given by Professor Lewis Gordon, at the Unisa Decolonial Summer School in Tshwane earlier this year, in which he noted that the problem with liberalism is that it reduces the political to the individual.

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