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 16, 2022 | General, Mental Health Days
This June, the PsySSA Student Division wants to amplify youth voices for social change in our social media campaign using a multimedia approach with the hashtag #UnmutedYouth. The hashtag #UnmutedYouth speaks to the theme of raising your voice against injustice as the...
by PsySSA | Apr 2, 2022 | Mental Health Days
This year’s World Autism Day comes on the heels of changes made in the newly published Diagnostic Statistical Manual-Fifth Edition-Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), to clarify, amongst other things , that “persistent deficits in social communication and social...
by PsySSA | Mar 19, 2022 | Mental Health Days
More Than My Brain Injury Division of Neuropsychology and Forensic Psychology Psychological Society of South Africa World Head Injury Awareness Day is observed annually on the 20th of March. The core purpose of this day is to provide awareness and to educate the...
by PsySSA | Dec 7, 2021 | Current Events, Mental Health Days
In a short conversation with Heidi Lourens, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Johannesburg, she speaks about how people living with disabilities continue to be made invisible in society as a result made to choose between freedom and...
