Research Report 2008

2008 was a successful year for the Psychology Department in terms of its research. Our output is looking healthy, we hosted a number of international visitors and events, and our post-graduate research programme is doing well. Nine of our staff members had their work published in 2008, resulting in 23 chapters and articles. Topics included:

• Development and validation of the Xhosa translation of the Beck inventories
• Development and utilisation of a suicide risk assessment interview schedule
• Assessment and treatment of post-abortion syndrome;
• Neurocognitive vulnerability and compromised visuomotor processing speed amongst rugby players;
• Incidence of concussive injury reported for follow-up management in the South African Rugby Union;
• Interactions with a child with autism;
• Postcolonialism in Psychology;
• Methodological issues in research on young women and abortion;
• Methodological issues in case studies;
• Intersubjectivity and the schizophrenic experience

We are particularly proud of the edited book produced by Clifford van Ommen, of Rhodes University, and Desmond Painter, previously of Rhodes University and now at University of Stellenbosch. This book, entitled Interiors: A History of Psychology in South Africa, has won critical acclaim within a short period of time. Three staff members (past and present) published chapters in the book.

The international stature of the department’s research is evidenced in the fact that thirteen of the 2008 publications were in international journals or books, and that during 2008 one of our staff members, Prof Catriona Macleod, received a B rating from the National Research Foundation (B rating is described as “Researchers who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality of their recent research outputs”). In terms of conferences, papers were delivered at international conferences in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland, and Spain. A further six papers were delivered at national conferences, one of which was a key-note address.

The Psychology Department hosted the Critical Methods Conference in 2008. This national conference attracted just over 40 delegates from all over South Africa. Key-note addresses were delivered by Prof Wendy Stainton Rogers of Open University, United Kingdom, and Prof Norman Duncan of the University of the Witwatersrand.

Other distinguished guests included Prof Ian Lubek of the University of Guelph, Canada, Prof Chabani Manganyi or the University of Pretoria and Prof Don Foster of the University of Cape Town. All three facilitated seminars with post-graduate students, and Prof Manganyi and Prof Foster delivered public lectures. Prof Manganyi’s public lecture formed part of the Social Change project initiated by the Psychology Department, in which prominent South African Psychologists are acknowledged for their contribution to social change in South Africa.

Currently, we have a very healthy number of Masters and PhD students and there is a steady increase in applications for Masters by thesis and PhD. What is particularly pleasing is the number of the students who are co-publishing with their supervisors. One student, Tracy Morison, published a chapter on her own work.

Professor Catriona Macleod
Head of Department

BOOKS/CHAPTERS/MONOGRAPHS

Bohmke,W
Bohmke,W and Tlali,T. "Bodies and behaviour: science, psychology, and politics in South Africa". In: Interiors: a history of psychology in South Africa. Unisa Press. Grahamstown. First Edition. 2008. 125-151. ISBN: 978-1-86888-448-3.

Macleod,CI
Macleod,CI and Bhatia,S. "Postcolonialism and psychology ". In: The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. Sage. London. First Edition. 2008. 576-589. ISBN: 978-1-4129-0780-4.

Morison,T
Morison,T. "Our "place in the family of things": a story of animals, (re)connection and belonging in the world". In: Toxic belonging? Identity and ecology in southern Africa. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Newcastle upon Tyne. First Edition. 2008. 56-73. ISBN: 1-84718-514-2.

Painter,D and van Ommen,C
Painter,D and van Ommen,C. "Abbreviated histories: some concluding remarks". In: Interiors: a history of Psychology in South Africa. Unisa Press. Pretoria. First Edition. 2008. 436-446. ISBN: 978-1-86888-448-3.

van Ommen,C
van Ommen,C. "Introduction: approaching the histories of psychology". In: Interiors: a history of psychology in South Africa. Unisa Press. Pretoria. First Edition. 2008. 1-24. ISBN: 978-1-86888-448-3.

van Ommen,C. "Memory". In: Psychology: an introduction. Oxford University Press Southern Africa. Cape Town. Second Edition. 2008. ISBN: 9780195767391.

van Ommen,C. "Writing the histories of South African psychology". In: Interiors: a history of psychology in South Africa. Unisa Press. Pretoria. First Edition. 2008. 25-62. ISBN: 978-1-86888-448-3.

van Ommen,C and Painter,D
van Ommen,C and Painter,D. "Interiors: A history of psychology in South Africa".van Ommen,C and Painter, D (Eds). Unisa Press. Pretoria. First Edition. 2008. 485 pp.

Yen,J
Yen,J. "A history of community psychology in South Africa". In: Interiors: a history of psychology in South Africa. Unisa Press. Pretoria. First Edition. 2008. 385-412. ISBN: 978-1-86888-448-3.

PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH JOURNALS IN ABSTRACT AND/OR FULL PAPER

Bantjes,J and van Ommen,C
Bantjes,J and van Ommen,C. "The development and utilisation of a suicide risk assessment interview schedule". South African Journal of Psychology. 2008. 38(2),391-411.

Boulind,MJ and Edwards,DJA
Boulind,MJ and Edwards,DJA. "The assessment and treatment of post-abortion syndrome: a systematic case study from Southern Africa". Journal of Psychology in Africa. 2008. 18(4),539-548.

Bradfield,BC and Knight,ZG
Bradfield,BC and Knight,ZG. "Intersubjectivity and the schizophrenic experience: a hermenteutic phenomenological exploration". South African Journal of Psychology. 2008. 38(1),33-53.

Edwards,DJA
Edwards,DJA. "Handling multiple levels of data and multiple research questions in an embedded case study: methodological challenges". Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 2008.4(4),http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/pcsp/article/view/946/2341

Edwards,DJA and Steele,G
Edwards,DJA and Steele,G. "Development and validation of the Xhosa translations of the Beck inventories: 3. concurrent and convergent validity". Journal of Psychology in Africa. 2008. 18(2),227-236. 205

Geils,C
Geils,C and Knoetze,J. "Conversations with Barney: a conversation analysis of interactions with a child with autism". South African Journal of Psychology. 2008. 38(1),200-224.

Knoetze,J
Geils,C and Knoetze,J. "Conversations with Barney: a conversation analysis of interactions with a child with autism". South African Journal of Psychology. 2008. 38(1),200-224.

Macleod,CI
Macleod,CI. “Who? What?’ An uninducted view of Towards a new psychology of women from post-apartheid South Africa". Feminism and Psychology. 2008. 18(3),347-357.

Macleod,CI. "Developing principles for research about young women and abortion: a feminist analysis of difficulties in current studies". Feminist Africa. 2008. 11,55-72.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB
Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB. "Central or peripheral? A positional stance in reaction to the Prague statement on the role of neuropsychological assessment in sports concussion management". Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 2008. 23(5),479-485.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB and Radloff,S.

"Compromised visuomotor processing speed in players of Rugby Union from school through to the adult national level". Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 2008. 23(5),511-520.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB and Smith,IP
Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB, Smith,IP and Radloff,SE. "Neurocognitive vulnerability amongst university rugby players versus noncontact sport controls". Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 2008. 30(8),870-884.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB, Whitefield,VJ, Clark,S, Essack,FB, Zoccola,D, Boulind,MJ, Case,SE, Smith,IP and Mitchell,JL

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB, Noakes,TD, Radloff,SE, Whitefield,VJ, Roberts,CO, Clark,S, Essack,FB, Zoccola,D,
Boulind,MJ, Case,SE, Smith,IP and Mitchell,JL. "The comparative incidence of reported concussions presenting for follow-up management in South African Rugby Union". Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. 2008. 18(5),403-409.

Steele,G and Edwards,DJA
Steele,G and Edwards,DJA. "Development and validation of the Xhosa translations of the Beck inventories: 1. challenges of the translation process". Journal of Psychology in Africa. 2008. 18(2),207-216.

Steele,G and Edwards,DJA. "Development and validation of the Xhosa translations of the Beck inventories: 2. item analysis and internal consistency". Journal of Psychology in Africa. 2008. 18(2),217-226.

van Ommen,C
van Ommen,C. “States of Mind: searching for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918’ by Julie Parle". South African Historical Journal. 2007. 59,282-285.

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

i. Local Conferences

Appalsamy,P
Appalsamy,P. "Consciousness and critical methods: learning from principles of quantum mechanics and spirituality". Critical Methods Conference. Rhodes University, Grahamstown. South Africa. July 2008.

Edwards,DJA
Edwards,DJA. "Using imagery techniques and behavioural experiments to integrate fragmented or dissociated trauma memories into autobiographical memory". Trauma: contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches (a South African congress). Protea Hotel, George. South Africa. March 2008.

Macleod,CI
Macleod,CI. "Colonialism and the ideologies of ‘adolescence’: implications for current understandings of young women and reproduction". Critical Methods Conference. Rhodes University, Grahamstown. South Africa. July 2008.

Macleod,CI. "The role of critical psychology in community interventions: examples from teenage pregnancy and abortion". Community Psychology Conference. University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa. South Africa. August 2008.

Macleod,CI. "Building systems through democratic leadership". ’Learning from the work of Professor Andrew Gilbert: Activity Theory, Local Knowledge, Cultural Psychology and Community Development’ colloquium. University of Fort Hare, East London. South Africa. September 2008.

Saville Young, L
Saville Young, L. "Discourse and psychoanalysis: Translating concepts into 'fragmenting' methodology". Critical Methods Conference. Rhodes University, Grahamstown. South Africa. July 2008.

van Ommen,C
van Ommen,C. “Race’, culture, ethnicity: the importance of acknowledging the socio-political in normative data research". South African Clinical Neuropsychology Association (SACNA) 11th National Conference. Hotel Conference Venue, Durban. South Africa. January 2008.

van Ommen,C. "Planes of endurance". Critical Methods Conference: ‘Despair And Hope In The Empire At The End Of Days’. Rhodes University, Grahamstown. South Africa. July 2008.

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

ii. International Conferences

Appalsamy,P
Appalsamy,P. "The influence of a spiritual ontology on suicidal behaviour: a case study". The Second Qualitative Conference on Menntal Health. Tampere Hall, Tampere. Finland. June 2008.

Edwards,DJA
Edwards,DJA. "None". British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy Conference and Workshop on Schema Therapy. Baker Street, London. United Kingdom. March 2008.

Edwards,DJA. "The role of case formulation in guiding differential strategic decisions in the conduct of cognitivebehavioral treatment with PTSD clients". Society For Psychotherapy Research. Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona. Spain. June 2008.

Macleod,CI
Macleod,CI. "Young women and abortion: critique of current research". 3rd Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights. International Conference Centre, Abuja. Nigeria. February 2008.

Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB and Whitefield,VJ
Shuttleworth-Edwards,AB, Whitefield,VJ, Radloff,SE, Taylor,AM and Lovell,MR. "Baseline neuropsychological profiles of South African Rugby versus American football players from 11 to 21 years". 3rd International Conference on Sports Concussion. Convention Centre, Zurich. Switzerland. January 2008.

CONCERTS, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS, EVENTS

Appalsamy,P
Appalsamy,P. Facilitator. Play and Post-Traumatic Stress in Children. Tongaat. Durban, South Africa. 20 - 22 October 2008.