by PsySSA | Jun 21, 2022 | Current Events, Mental Health Days
While many have recognised mental health as the second pandemic resulting from the loss lives and isolation that accompanied the Covid-19 pandemic. Excessive drug use has been a major problem in South Africa even prior to the Covid-19, in particular alcohol, tobacco,...
by PsySSA | Jun 1, 2022 | Current Events, General
International Children’s Day is celebrated on June 1 of each year. In 1925 the World Conference for the Well-being of Children declared June 1 as the day to focus the world’s attention on issues affecting children. The Conference adopted the Geneva Declaration of the...
by PsySSA | May 17, 2022 | Current Events, General
Thirty-two years ago, on the 17th of May 1990, the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – one of the foremost diagnostic compendiums employed around the world by...
by PsySSA | Apr 27, 2022 | Current Events, General
Where have the heady memories of the very first General Election called for 27 April 1994, through negotiated settlement, gone? Long, colourful, winding queues of almost 20 million generally overjoyed South Africans of all hues, beliefs and position waited patiently...
