Staff Research Interests 2015

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1 Staff Research Interests 2015 Professor Tharina Guse Qualitative and Quantitative research methods: Positive psychology in general Hope and gratitude as psychological strengths Positive psychology interventions Well-being Psychological aspects related to pregnancy, childbearing and early motherhood Hypnosis and hypnotherapy Professor Zelda Knight Relational Psychoanalytic theory and practice Self psychology and psychological development of self and identity Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the intersubjective processes involved in the process of psychic change and growth, including the analytic third, countertransference, and the corrective emotional experience Short term psychodynamic psychotherapy and Attachment Theory The development of psychotherapy supervisors Professor Brendon Barnes Critiques of health behaviour change in the global South Critical health psychology and the third way in public health Psychology, environment and health Class, psychology and health Dr Graham du Plessis Cognitive Behavioural Therapy 1

2 Positive Psychology & Appreciative inquiry Psychometric Design and Construction Therapeutic and Clinical Psychology Phenomenology Dr Heidi Lourens The lived experience of being disabled Experiences of marginalised groups in higher education Including disabled students across the educational landscape (inclusive education) The limits to inclusion Phenomenology and embodiment Dr Prevan Moodley Evolutionary psychology Media representations of health, sex, and sexuality Male sexualities and masculinities Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Intersex Questioning topics Community health psychology and critical health psychology Dr Carol Saccaggi The psychology of religion and spirituality Research using found or archival data Psychobiography Body modification and tattooing 2

3 Dr Pieter Basson Neuropsychology: executive functioning Positive Psychology Core counselling skills and the training of psychologists Relationships and relationship therapies Gender Psychology Developmental Psychology Career Psychology Dr Gert Kruger Personality and individual differences Humour Self and self-processes Executive functions of the prefrontal cortex Dr Tracey-Lee Austin Lying and deception Adult Psychopathology Dr Gerhard Schwar Spirituality Music preference/stereotypes Dr Sumayya Ebrahim Critical Psychology Social constriction of pornography and sexuality 3

4 Subjective experience of infertility Media Representations of gender, sex, rape, pornography, infertility and the body Melissa Card Psychotherapy (Psychoanalytic, psychodynamic processes) Eating pathology (manorexia, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, bulimia) Body image (gym bunnies, bigorexia) Social media as a form of attachment and relational pattern Noorjehan Joosub Neuropsychological rehabilitation after Acquired Brain Injury Career counselling narratives in different groups Quantitative analysis of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Analysis of representations and discourses on various social issues such as motherhood, breastfeeding, and living with brain injury Conceptions of pathology in different communities Wilmien Human Psychopathology and Psychodiagnostics : Adult ADHD, Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder Positive Psychology: Post-Traumatic Growth, Well-being, Meaning in Life, Hope Psychotherapeutic Interventions: CBT, Existential Psychotherapy, Positive Psychology, Integrative Psychotherapy Psychological Assessment Larise du Plessis Post-traumatic growth Professional training of psychotherapists 4

5 Forensic psychology Neuropsychology Casper van Zyl Differential psychology or Individual Differences research Psychometrics Test development The Dark Triad of Personality Cross-cultural research 5