by Web Admin | Apr 29, 2024
Deneo Nande Sekese started her career in Human Resources, particularly Training and Development and Organisational Development. Her passion for people and therapy led to a midlife career change into psychology. Deneo completed her master’s in Counselling Psychology at Rhodes University and an internship at the Durban University of Technology Student Counselling Centre. She has had the privilege of presenting her master’s research at the 27th Annual South African Psychology Congress. Deneo’s areas of interest are African Psychology, Wellbeing and Salutogenesis, Health and Community Psychology. She runs a private practice on the lower south coast of KZN and Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. She is an additional member of the South African Association for Counselling Psychologists executive committee.
by Web Admin | Apr 10, 2024
by Web Admin | Feb 7, 2024
Professor Malose Makhubela is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a full professor at the University of Limpopo. He was previously attached to the University of Pretoria and University of Johannesburg. Professor Makhubela’s research is largely focussed on developing better ways to understand psychological attributes, either as latent attributes using novel methodological offshoots of the traditional latent variable framework or through studying individual symptoms of mental disorders and their causal relations. Professor Makhubela’s research endeavours to go beyond traditional linear thinking about psychopathology and its assessment and is geared towards a more complex understanding of mental illness, as best illustrated by the field of complexity science.
by Web Admin | Feb 7, 2024
Dr Geetha Reddy works within and outwith the psychological sciences to study and address social issues across disciplinary boundaries. They have co-edited three special issues on decolonising psychology together with the Readsura Decolonial Editorial Collective (Review of General Psychology and Journal of Social Issues) and one special issue on precarity with Clare Coultas and Johanna Lukate in the British Journal of Social Psychology. They are working on understanding how people make sense of community resilience, solidarity, precarity and coloniality in Global South countries. They are based at the Open University, UK.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Jan 10, 2024
Solomon “Steve” Mashegoane (Ph. D) is a professor of psychology and the head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Limpopo. He is also registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa in the clinical psychology, independent practice category. Prof. Mashegoane is the founder and owner of KM’T Institute for Development and Evaluation, a research and development company with considerable experience in the evaluation of customer/community satisfaction in the public sector. Aside from the involvement in the editorial term of the SAJP, Prof Mashegoane has served a stint as a language editor of Theologia Viatorum: Journal of Theology & Religion in Africa and is one of the executive editors of the African Journal of Psychological Assessment. Prof Mashegoane conducts research, teaches, and writes mainly on health psychology, psychometrics, and psychological assessment. He also presents research methods modules.
