Psychosocial Health

Dr Xander Flemming

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Dr Xander Flemming BELINDA BANTHAM Thu, 02/22/2024 - 09:49

Community psychology

Psychosocial Health

Transdisciplinary Health Research

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Xander

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Dr Xander Flemming is a lecturer and researcher at the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR). After obtaining a master’s degree in counselling psychology, he gained over 12 years of experience in community settings. He managed and implemented mental health and psycho-social well-being programs and sexual health and HIV/STI prevention programs for marginalised groups in resource-limited settings in South Africa. He has worked at a national level and across various sectors, including public health, health promotion, the NGO/CBO sector and corporate social investment. He has collaborated with NGOs/CBOs, grassroots organisations, international and national funders, and government departments, such as the Department of Health (national, provincial and district levels). He worked as a lecturer in the Psychology subject group at the North-West University from 2019 to 2023. He holds a PhD in Transdisciplinary Health Sciences. He has supervised postgraduate students in Psychology and Positive Psychology. His research focus area includes strengths-based approaches to MSM well-being, mental health promotion, and transdisciplinary and community-integrated research. He has a keen interest in qualitative research approaches.

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Lusilda Schutte

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:42:45 +0000

Lusilda Schutte BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 06/14/2021 - 12:42

Psychiatric epidemiology

Psychosocial Health

Public mental health

Well-being and Flourishing

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Professor Lusilda Schutte is an Associate Professor at the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research of the North-West University and a registered and practicing Clinical Psychologist.

Building on a Bachelor’s degree with Mathematics, Statistics, and Psychology as majors, Prof Schutte holds a Doctoral degree in Psychology from the North-West University, South Africa, and Master’s degrees in both Clinical Psychology and Statistics.

Her research falls in the domain of public mental health and psychiatric epidemiology, with mental health conceptualised on the full spectrum from ill-being to well-being. She has a specific interest in the social determinants of mental health, and in developing a complex understanding of mental health prevalence, trajectories, determinants, and correlates in low resource settings, which ultimately feeds into developing context-sensitive and relevant policy and interventions.

She was a recipient of the Bronze Medal Award for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Health Research from the South African Medical Research Council in 2023, received a Y1 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF) in 2022, and was the recipient of the Emerging Scientist Award of the Psychological Society of South Africa’s Division for Research and Methodology in 2019. She held an NRF Thuthuka grant from 2020 to 2022 and receives research funding in the South African Medical Research Council’s Early Investigators Programme from a project from 2022 to 2026. Prof Schutte was the lead editor of a 2022 Springer volume titled “Embracing well-being in diverse African contexts: Research perspectives”. She was invited to convene an Invited Symposium at the International Congress of Psychology in 2021 and was invited to present in the “Showcasing Early Career Researchers Invited Symposium” at the 6th World Congress of Positive Psychology in Melbourne, Australia, in 2019.

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Alida Glaudina Herbst

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:06:56 +0000

Alida Glaudina Herbst BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 10/24/2018 - 12:06

Psychosocial Health

Social Work

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Professor Alida Herbst is a registered social worker and currently Director of the School of Psychosocial Health. She practised for 13 years as medical social worker in 1 Military and the MediClinic Heart and Kloof hospitals where she gained expertise in the fields of narrative, trauma, grief and bereavement counselling; the psychosocial adjustment of patients with cancer, heart disease and other chronic illnesses; support to the families of such patients and the self-care of caregivers.

She holds a MA in Social Work with Play Therapy (University of Pretoria) and a PhD in Social Work (North-West University). Her PhD study focused on a narrative programme to support young adults living with HIV. She was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the NWU in 2005 where she taught a number of social work modules related to social work management, substance abuse/dependency and social work in health. She annually participates as guest lecturer during the International Days of the Thomas More University and University College Leuven-Limburg in Belgium. During 2016, she co-developed an online short learning programme for the NWU titled, Psychosocial Interventions in End-of-life and Bereavement Care.

Her research focus is the psychosocial health of individuals, groups and communities, with specific emphasis on narratives of illness and health. She participated in research projects such as the PEPFAR/USAID funded, Choose Life Project and the international PURE study. She co-authored a book with the title: Memory work – telling your story through life maps, recently edited a South African textbook, titled, Trauma Counselling: principles and practice in South Africa today and authored/ co-authored a number of scholarly articles in international and national journals. A total of 17 Masters and 8 PhD students completed their studies under her supervision. She is graded a C-3 researcher with the National Research Foundation of South Africa.

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