The experience of a community service nurse working during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa.
EPISODE 4
HPSIG Podcasts
Will the 4th wave drown us? How serious is Omicron?
Join the Gauteng GP Collaboration this Wed evening the 1st Dec of 2021 from 8pm-9:15pm on Zoom as we find out from two experts.
Prof Salim Abdool Karim – Expert epidemiologist in infectious disease. Former chair of the MAC for Covid-19. Professor at Columbia University. What will the fourth wave bring? Do vaccines work against Omicron?
Dr John Tilley – Specialist Physician, critical care specialist and head of ICU at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre How to treat COVID-19 at home during the fourth wave.
Sponsored by the Cochrane Group, the webinar will take place on Zoom
Feel free to share with other doctors, health care workers and other interested parties.
Let us beat COVID-19 together.
Dr Daniel Israel
on behalf of the Gauteng GP Collaboration
PsySSA Workshop Series: Workshop 10: Meditations on African Psychology and the Covid-19 pandemic
PsySSA Workshop Series: Workshop 10: Meditations on African Psychology and the Covid-19 pandemic
Meet our Presenters!
Presenter Bios
Nqobile Msomi
Nqobile Msomi is a counselling psychologist and lecturer at Rhodes University. She co-ordinates Rhodes University’s Psychology Clinic, a community-based training institution for counselling and clinical psychologists. Msomi espouses a situated psychology and concerns herself with ways to move towards practice, teaching and research informed by the values and principles of community and Africa(n)-centred psychologies. She is a PhD candidate and has partnered with a local education focused non-governmental organisation for her case study research.
Dr. Refiloe Makama
Dr. Refiloe Makama is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Her recently completed PhD study on the constructions, negotiations and performances of gender through lobolo exemplifies her interest in peoples everyday constructions of gendered identity and the workings of power. Her work is located within an African-centered feminist psychology and employs narrative methodology. Her research interest includes gender studies, masculinities, love, and African feminism.
Ms. Thandiwe Ndaba
Thandi recently completed her master’s in research psychology, using an indigenous paradigm method called the life- focused interview for data collection and the medicine wheel for her analysis. Her study focused on collecting perspectives of selected African psychologists on the [dis]connect between their indigenous background, academic training, and the practice of psychology. She co-directs a research company with four ladies called Black Women in Research (BWR) where the focus is assisting clients to simplify research. Ms Thandi used to work as postgraduate research assistant at University of South Africa, where she formed part of African psychology network platform for academics to engage freely on African literature. Her research interest lies in African indigenous psychology, more specifically in indigenous research methods, African ways of being and the practise of African(n)-centred psychology.
Dr. Sipho Dlamini
Dr. Sipho Dlamini is a senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg’s Department of Psychology. He is also a registered counselling psychologist. Dr. Dlamini serves on the board for the journal Psychology in Society as an associate editor, he also serves as the vice-chair for the South African Association of Counselling Psychologists (SAACP) and the executive of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) as an additional member. His research interests include Africa(n)-centred psychologies, the history and philosophy of psychology, community psychology, the training of psychologists, and critical race theories.
Nominations for PsySSA Executive Committee Vacancies
PsySSA Call for Nominations
The PsySSA Nominations Committee wishes to advise that the following positions on the PsySSA Executive Committee will become vacant at the forthcoming 26th AGM to be held virtually on 17 November 2021.
- President-Elect
- Treasurer
- Four Additional Members
Members in good standing may propose suitable candidates for consideration by the Nominations Committee, which will duly present appropriate candidates for election at the AGM.
Nominations Guidelines for all these positions are available here.
All nominations with supporting documentation should be emailed to the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Prof Saths Cooper, at nominations@psyssa.com by 01 November 2021.
Guidelines
Please download the Call for Nominations and the Guideline Documents for each of the Executive Committee vacancies using the buttons below.
Nomination Form
PsySSA Congratulates Prof Peace Kiguwa!
PsySSA Congratulates Prof Peace Kiguwa on being awarded the OMT African Studies Future initiative grant
PsySSA Congratulates Prof Peace Kiguwa (Chairperson of the PsySSA Sexuality & Gender Division) on being awarded the OMT African Studies Future initiative grant that seeks to explore alternative futures and reimagine Africa’s future developmental pathways. The fellowship provides support to rising talent in academia with potential to be leaders and advance interdisciplinary scholarship. Kiguwa will expand her research into gender and sexualities and place making where she will investigate how these intersect and manifest in society.
PsySSA Workshop Series: Workshop 11: Conducting fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibility examinations
PsySSA Workshop Series: Workshop 11: Conducting fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibility examinations
Meet our Presenters!
Presenter Bios
Professor Neil Gowensmith is a core faculty member at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology, teaching exclusively in the Forensic Psychology graduate program. In 2014, he created and became the director of the department’s forensic mental health institute, Denver FIRST (The University of Denver’s Forensic Institute for Research, Service, and Training). Denver FIRST now operates a postdoctoral fellowship, an outpatient competency restoration program, and a robust forensic evaluation service. Prof Gowensmith has worked in prisons, jails, courts, community mental health centers, and mental health hospitals throughout his career. From 2006-2012 he served as the Chief of Forensic Services for the State of Hawaii, helping lead Hawaii out of federal oversight and implementing several innovative and evidence-based community forensic policies and programs. He continues to serve as a national expert in forensic mental health, with consultation, research, and practice focusing specifically on outpatient competency restoration, standards for forensic evaluators, conditional release of insanity acquittees, and public forensic mental health systems. He is one of two Special Masters designated by the US District Court (Colorado) to help oversee the transformation of the competency services system in Colorado.
Professor Anthony Pillay is in the Department of Behavioural Medicine at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine at UKZN & Fort Napier Hospital. He received his post-doctoral training in Maternal & Child Health at Harvard University and has been a Visiting Clinical Fellow at the Boston Children’s Hospital. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Mauritius, where he also conducts research, and is a Past-President of the Psychological Society of South Africa. He has published over a hundred papers in journals and books around the world, including research into women & children’s mental health, professional psychology training and forensic mental health. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Psychology, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health.