Lecturer in Counselling Psychology and Psychology Clinic Co-ordinator
Registered as a Counselling Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)
BSocSci, BSocSci (Hons) (Rhodes), PGCE (FP) (Rhodes), MA (Counselling Psychology) (Rhodes), PhD candidate (Rhodes)
Email: n.msomi@ru.ac.za
Phone: 046 603 7417
Room 2, Psychology Clinic
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Nqobile Msomi is a counselling psychologist and lecturer at the Department of Psychology. 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.
Interests
Current Teaching Areas
Masters in Counselling Psychology:
Publications
Macleod, C. I., Jeary-Graham, N., Bredenkamp, P., Matebese, S., Tsetse, N., Msomi, N., … Molokoe, K. (2020). Alcohol use during pregnancy in the Eastern Cape: Research in support of FASfacts intervention: Research Report.
Msomi, N. (2021). Lou-Marie Kruger, Of motherhood and melancholia: Notebook of a psycho-ethnographer. Feminism & Psychology, 31(3), 458 – 460.
Akhurst, J. and Msomi, N. (2022). Building Partnerships for Community-Based Service Learning in Poverty-stricken and Systemically Disadvantaged Communities. In C. Kagan, J. Akhurst, J. Alfaro, R. Lawthom, M. Richards & A. Zambrano, The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology (1st ed.), 325 – 339.
Msomi, N. N. (2019). Discursive constructions of alcohol use and pregnancy among participants in an intervention aimed at reducing Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (Unpublished Master’s Dissertation). Rhodes University, Makhanda.
Postgraduate Supervision
Msomi is currently interested in the postgraduate supervision of research projects documenting the experiences of various stakeholders participating in psychosocial support workshops in our local schooling setting, local mentoring programmes and local community-based organisations
Masters in Counselling Psychology research supervision
Simukonda, M. (2020). Teacher narratives of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders (FASD)-affected children in schooling (in progress).
Simonse, A. (2021). Trainee psychologists’ experiences of community-based service learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (in progress).
Mabaso, R. (2022). Educators’ experiences of psychosocial support workshops during COVID-19 in the Eastern Cape, South Africa (in progress).
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