Research Report 2006

South African Journal of Psychology

In 2006 fourteen papers were delivered by staff at conferences, seven of these at international conferences. Five publications in conference proceedings resulted. Two staff members were invited speakers in 2006. Professor Ann Edwards was invited to present at the Psychological Society of South Africa annual conference (on developing specialist training for neuropsychologists), at the South African Clinical Neuropsychology conference (on pitfalls in the practitioner use of the WAISS-II in the South African context), and at the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa congress (on the role of computer-based neurocognitive screening in the overall medical management of sports concussion). Professor Catriona Macleod was invited to present a seminar at the Open University in the United Kingdom (on Postcolonialism and Psychology). Departmental publications include seven articles, two in national and five in international journals, and four chapters in books.

Three staff members, Professor Dave Edwards, Professor Ann Edwards and Professor Catriona Macleod received NRF funding, and Professor Catriona Macleod funding from the Johan Jacobs Foundation. Two staff members, Professor Dave Edwards and Professor Catriona Macleod, are rated social scientists with the National Research Foundation (C category). Professor Chris Stones continues as editor of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology.

Professor Ann Edwards had an excellent year research-wise. She was hosted in the early part of the year by the Charlton Athletics Club in New Eltham, London. Setting in motion a prospective study on neurocognitive deficits associated with heading the ball in soccer was the main activity of this visit. Later, she was nominated for and awarded the Amnesty International Rhodes University Woman of the Year 2006 award for her outstanding achievement as a senior researcher. She was also promoted to full professor.

Our postgraduate graduation and registration rate is looking very healthy. We expect sixteen Master’s and one PhD student to graduate this year. In 2007, in addition to the twenty Master’s students who will be registered for the Clinical/Counselling Psychology programme, there are nine Master’s by thesis and ten PhD students. We have introduced an exciting series of workshops on research skills which are compulsory for all Master’s by thesis students and optional for PhD students.

Professor Catriona Macleod
Head of Department

BOOKS/CHAPTERS/MONOGRAPHS

Moerdyk,AP
Moerdyk,AP. "Individuals in Organization". In: Crafford,A, Moerdyk,AP, Nel,P, O'Neill,C, Schlechter,A and Southey, L (eds) Fresh Perspective on Industrial Psychology. Pearson Education. Cape Town. 2006. 41-58.

Moerdyk,AP. "Performance Management & Reward". In: Crafford,A, Moerdyk,AP, Nel,P, O'Neill,C, Schlechter,A and Southey, L (eds) Fresh Perspective on Industrial Psychology. Pearson Education. Cape Town. 2006. 243-266.

Moerdyk,AP. "Positive Employee Relations". In: Crafford,A, Moerdyk,AP, Nel,P, O'Neill,C, Schlechter,A and Southey, L (eds) Fresh Perspective on Industrial Psychology. Pearson Education. Cape Town. 2006. 267-290.

Moerdyk,AP. "Using the gap analysis Process". In: Moerdyk, AP (eds) X Kit Human Resources Management. Pearson Education. Cape Town. 2006. 223-235.

Painter,D
Painter,D. "A human science for an inhuman time? The rise and demise of phenomenology in South African psychology". In: Gulerce,A, Staeuble,I, Hofmeister,A, Saunders,G and Kay, J (eds) Contemporary 174 theorizing in Psychology: Global perspectives. Concord: Captus Press. Canada. 2005. 97-195. ISBN:1-55322-109-5.

PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH JOURNALS IN ABSTRACT AND/OR FULL PAPER

Edwards,DJA
Edwards,DJA. "Identifying and targeting idiosyncratic cognitive processes in group therapy for social phobia: A case study". Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 2006. 2(1),1-30.

Edwards,DJA. "How the case of Vumile contributes to the evidence base for cognitive therapy with social phobia as an empirically grounded clinical intervention - response to commentaries on 'Identifying and targeting idiosyncratic cognitive processes in group therapy for social phobia: A case study'". Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 2006. 2(5),1-17.

Knight,ZG

Knight,ZG. "The trauma and beyond trauma of political displacement: An exploratory case study of one white Zimbabwean farmer". Australian Journal of Disaster and Trauma. 2006. 1,1-19.

Knight,ZG. "Some thoughts on the psychological roots of the behaviour of serial killers as narcissists: An object relations perspective". Social Behaviour and Personality. 2006. 34(10),1189-1206.

Macleod,C
Macleod,C and Wilbraham,L. "Redeploying Parker, post-colonially". Psychology in Society. 2006. 34,31-50.

Painter,D
Painter,D. "The racism of others: A polemic on discursive social psychology and its politics". Psychology in Society. 2005. 31,71-84.

Robus,D
Robus,D and Macleod,C. "White excellence and black failure: The reproduction of racialised higher education in everyday talk". South African Journal of Psychology. 2006. 36(3),463-480.

Smith,I
Smith,I. "A cognitive-behavioural treatment programme for conduct disorder: The case of Tumeleng". Journal of Psychology in Africa. 2006. 2,231-242.

Stones,CRStones,CR. "Antigay prejudice among heterosexual males: Right-wing authoritarianism as a stronger predictor than social dominance orientation and heterosexual identity". Social Behaviour and Personality. 2006. 34(9),1137-1150.

Swingler,D
Furedi,J, Mohr,P, Swingler,D, Bitter,I, Gheorghe,MD, Hotujac,L, Jarema,M, Kocmur,M, Koychev,GI, Mosolov,SN, Pecenak,J, Rybakowski,J, Svestka,J and Sartorius,N. "Psychiatry in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe: an overview of the current situation". Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2006. 114,223-231.

RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED AT ACADEMIC/SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
(PROCEEDINGS,BOOKLETS and ATTENDANCE)

i. Local Conferences (Within South Africa)

Appalsamy,P
Appalsamy,P. "When Psychotherapy hurts rather than heals: Tracy's story". 10th Annual Psychology Postgraduate Conference. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. October 2006.

Edwards,DJA
Edwards,DJA. "The lasting legacy of trauma: Understanding obstacles to forgiveness and to resolution of negative post-traumatic experiences". Conference on Memory, Narrative & Forgiveness: Reflecting on Ten Years of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. University of Cape Town, Cape Town. November 2006.

Moerdyk,AP
Moerdyk,AP. "Patterns & predictors of academic success - the case of first year Psychology students at Rhodes University". SIOPSA Conference. Pretoria. June 2006.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB
Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB. "Pitfalls in the practitioner use of the WAIS-III in the South African context. Part I". 10th National Conference of the South African Clinical Neuropsychological Association (SACNA). University of Cape Town, Cape Town. February 2006.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB. "Computer-based neurocognitive screening in sports concussion management: Luxury or clinical necessity in the public domain?". 12th South African Psychology Congress. Emperor's Palace, Johannesburg. September 2006.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB. "The role of computer-based neurocognitive screening in the overall medical management of sports concussion". 19th Biennial Congress of the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa. Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town. September 2006.

van Ommen,CH
van Ommen,CH. "Odd bedfellows? Post-structuralism and the neurosciences". 10th Beinnial South African Clinical Neuropsychology Association. University of Cape Town, Cape Town. January 2006.

RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED AT ACADEMIC/SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
(PROCEEDINGS,BOOKLETS and ATTENDANCE)

ii. International Conferences (Outside South Africa)

Appalsamy,P
Appalsamy,P. "Pathways to suicide: A phenomenological case study". 37th Annual Conference of the American Association of Suicidology Conference. Hotel, Florida. USA. April 2005. 168-172.

Bohmke,WR
Bohmke,WR and Painter,D. "Ordinary liberals: Rhetoric, ideology and the reproduction of racism in South Africa". 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology. Casa Convalescia, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona. Spain. July 2006.

Edwards,DJA
Edwards,DJA. "The role of systematic case studies in the development of evidence-based practice at a panel entitled, 'A marriage made in heaven: Systematic case studies and Psychotherapy research.'". Conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Scotland. June 2006.

Knight,ZG
Knight,ZG. "The analyst's fear of emotional surrender". International Congress of Psychotherapy combined with the 3rd International Congress of Asian Federation for Psychotherapy. Keio Hotel, Tokyo. Japan. September 2006.

Macleod,C
Macleod,C. "Postcolonialism and psychology". Invited paper at Open University. Open University, Milton-Keynes. United Kingdom. June 2006.

Macleod,C. "Postcolonial Foucauldian feminism and intellectual activism in South African Psychology". International Society of Political Psychology 2006 Scientific Meeting. Casa Convalescia, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona. Spain. July 2006.

Stones,CR
Stones,CR. "A case study: Family dynamics and the over investment of loyalty". International Congress of Psychotherapy in Japan and the 3rd International Congress of the Asian Federation for Psychotherapy. Keio Hotel, Tokyo. Japan. August 2006.

van Ommen,CH
van Ommen,CH. "Capturing resource: Attention and the Political". International Society for Political Psychology. Casa Convalescia, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona. Spain. July 2006.

CONCERTS, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS ETC.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB
Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB. Facilitator. "Pitfalls in the practitioner use of the WAISS-II in the South African context. Part II". Conference of the South African Clinical Neuropsychological Society (SACNA). University of Cape Town. Cape Town. February 2006.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB. Facilitator. "A working model for specialist training in Clinical Neuropsychology". C. Foxcroft (Chair), 'Neuropsychology: Training Issues'. Round Table Discussion held at the 12th South African Psychology Congress. Emperor's Palace. Johannesburg. September 2006.

OVERSEAS RESEARCH OR FURTHER STUDY

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB
Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB. Charlton Athletics Club, New Eltham, London, England. Research planning for collaborative study in progress, on the effect of heading in soccer, using the ImPACT neurocognitive screening battery. April 2006.