PsySSA joins the multitude of health professionals in condemning the health authorities’ negative responses to Dr Tim De Maayer who sought to highlight the poor conditions at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital.

PsySSA Commemorates SANCA Drug Awareness Week 2022

PsySSA Commemorates Youth Day 2022

#UnmutedYouth

The Abstract Submission Deadline for PsySSA’s 26th Congress has been extended by two weeks!

ASSA has been established as an independent non-regulatory external assessments evaluation body working collaboratively with the assessment industry and the professional organisations in South Africa to assist in implementing a robust, best practice and technology enabled process that can be used to review people assessment instruments and tests.  Based on the experience in other countries the voluntary submission of assessment instruments for objective evaluation and reviews will raise the general standard and awareness of using quality tests.

PsySSA Workshop Series 2022

The Complexities of Trauma: Conceptual Considerations and Treatment Realities for Practitioners in South Africa

Out Now! SAJP Volume 52 Issue 2: June 2022

The South African Journal of Psychology is pleased to advise that Dr Yogan Pillay, has written the featured commentary for this issue, namely:
“The role of non-governmental organisations in strengthening the South African health system”

PsySSA 2022 Webinar Series – Webinar 2: Necrocapitalism and Psychic Violence – Recording Out Now!

Recognising the importance of being adequately prepared for the board exam of the registration categories as the final phase of training. Three divisions at the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), the Division of Registered Counsellors and Psychometrists (RCP), Society for Educational Psychology South Africa (SEPSA), and South African Association of Counselling Psychologists (SAACP) are presenting a workshop on board exam preparation. The workshop will cover generally the Mental Health Care Act, the National Health Act more generally as it pertains to the three registration categories. The workshop will then cover category related issues that may appear in the board exam, including ethics, referrals, and cases.

After two years of successfully running the Seed Grant Competition, the CaSP Division invites its members to apply for the competition which seeks to fund ONE innovative, practical, and sustainable community engagement project.

In celebrating Human Rights Day, 21st March 2022, we have much cause to reflect, but even greater cause to act to halt cultures perpetuating human rights abuse. A direct corelation exists today between behaviours of the political and corporate elite, and the state of the poor whose basic human rights are being violated on a grand scale.

It is with deep sadness that the PsySSA Family informs you of the passing of its Past President, Dr Helen Dunbar-Krige (2018 – 2019).

The Pan-African Psychology Union will be hosting its first fully online congress from 28-30 March 2022. Abstract & Delegate Registrations are now open!

After two years of successfully running the Seed Grant Competition, the CaSP Division invites its members to apply for the competition which seeks to fund ONE innovative, practical, and sustainable community engagement project.

PsySSA extends it congratulations to Assessment Standards South Africa!

PsySSA would like to congratulate Prof Saths Cooper on being awarded the International Science Council (ISC) Fellowship! On 9 June 2022, The ISC announced the creation of a Foundation Fellowship and appointed 66 Foundation Fellows. The Fellowship is the highest honour...

On 25th Anniversary of UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims, Psychology and Human Rights Organizations Demand Action from APA

The World Health Organisation Highlights an Urgent Need to Transform Mental Health and Mental Health Care

In this episode we speak to Dr Kerry-Ann Louw, senior lecturer at Stellenbosch university and head of the adult psychiatry clinical unit at Tygerberg hospital, about chronic pain and our misguided separation of the “psychological” from the “physical”. Dr Louw discusses the misconceptions surrounding chronic pain, the complexities in diagnosing and treating it, and the ways in which this is evolving during COVID-19 and beyond. She goes on to describe the powerful role of psychological factors in determining and managing chronic pain, and the profound effect such pain may have on the wellbeing of those who experience it.

PsySSA Workshop Series 2022

The Complexities of Trauma: Conceptual Considerations and Treatment Realities for Practitioners in South Africa