| Name |
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Contact Details |
| Dr. Malose Langa (MACC coordinator) Research interests
- risk-taking behaviours amongst the youth
- suicide, substance abuse
- trauma
- psychology of men and masculinity
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27-(0)11-717-4536 |
Prof. Garth Stevens
(Psychotherapy coordinator; internship liaison) Research interests
- race, racism and related social asymmetries
- racism and knowledge production
- critical psychology, ideology, power and discourse
- violence and its prevention
- masculinity, gender, violence and homicide
- community psychology
- applying intervention strategies, psychosocial programming and public health
|
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27-(0)11-717-4535 |
| Dr. Daleen Alexander (Psychological assessment coordinator)
Research interests
- occupational psychology and related topics
- impact of HIV/AIDS in the workplace, unemployment, evaluation of career theories
- workplace counselling
- career counselling and psychological distress
- career guidance/ counselling and assessment
- counselling (specifically lay counselling interventions and evaluations thereof)
|
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27-(0)11-717-4526 |
| Tanya Graham (Psychopathology coordinator) Research interests
- Youth violence, risk behaviours and schools-based safety promotion
- youth development, urbanisation and poverty
- race, racism and identity
- community psychology theory and practice
- critical social psychology
- HIV/AIDS
|
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27-(0)11-717-4586 |
| Prof. Brett Bowman (Community psychology coordinator) Research interests
- epidemiology of violence
- poverty
- public health
- history of the social sciences
- racism and related social asymmetries
- paraphilias
- Foucauldian philosophy and modes of application
- qualitative methods
- critical psychology
- constructions of childhood
|
 |
27-(0)11-717-8335 |
| Dr. Vinitha Jithoo (Psychotherapy teaching team)
Research interests
- health psychology (including HIV and TB)
- gender and identity
- racism and cross-cultural issues
- marital & family systems
- child & adult psychology
- paediatric psycho-oncology
|
|
27-(0)11-717-4523 |
| Dr. Lakeasha Sullivan (Psychological assessment teaching team; community psychology teaching team)
Research interests
- racism, structural inequalities, and public policies
- qualitative research
- perceptions of racism, sexism, classism, xenophobia, heterosexism and privilege
- community psychology praxis
|
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27-(0)11-717-8329 |
| Kerry Gordon (Community psychology teaching team - sessional staff) Research interests
- gender and gender-based violence
- community psychology
- psychotherapy theory and practice
- psychopathology
- critical psychology and post-structuralism
- existential psychology
- health psychology
|
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27-(0)11-717-4500 |
Claire Jaynes
(Community psychology teaching team - sessional staff)
Research interests
- psychotherapy
- psychometric assessment
- career counselling
- training and facilitation
- community psychology
- advocacy, activism and social awareness programmmes
- social asymmetries such as homophobia, racism and sexism
- anti-racism, the intersection of race, gender and LGBTI issues
- HIV/AIDS
- identity and psycotherapy
|
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27-(0)11-717-9140 |
Megan Bantjes
(Community psychology teaching team - sessional staff)
Research interests
- translators in counselling and psychotherapy
- language and access to state mental health services
- psychosocial explanations for violent crime
- complex and continuous trauma
- psychotherapy with torture survivors and refugees
- psychotherapy and counselling in 'non-facilitative' environments
- psychologists as advocates and/or activists
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27-(0)11-717-4500 |
The quality of the MACC Programme is a direct result of the inputs by our staff members. The table below provides their contact details and research interests.