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SGD ExCo Two new fascinating publications related to sexuality and gender were first launched at the end of 2017: Blackwashing Homophobia by Prof...

DRM ExCo Member news Prof Vanessa Scherman presented at the Seventh International Conference on Probabilistic Models for Measurement. The conference...

Kempie van Rooyen The focus of this TVD section in PsyTalk is on the invaluable work of Prof Juan Nel and Ms Yolanda Mitchell in the sensitising of...

SEPSA ExCo Announcements: The SEPSA ExCo will provide short information sessions on the appropriate and ethical administrative procedures when...

In an essay on Critical Sexualities Studies , Ken Plummer argues that we are living in an era characterised by a tension between sexual cosmopolitanism and sexual fundamentalism. As evidence of the former he cites a broad (though surely contested) global awareness of, and a willingness to live with, human sexual variety both within and across cultures.

Written by Tamaryn Wilde (Chairperson of PsySSA Student Division Community Development Sub Com) Surgeons for Little Lives (SFLL) is a registered...

The phrase ‘time is money’ is often heard in the world of business, and this is true for psychologists as well. As a field, we are always trying to find ways to do things better, with the emphasis on efficiency. The internet provided a platform for taking psychometric testing into new directions but with this comes the need for the ethical and professional use of the tests and the results generated from the tests (Naglieri et al., 2004).

A team of researchers recently evaluated the implementation of the Soul City Rise clubs for young women implemented in many communities throughout South Africa.
The RISE Young Women’s clubs strive towards a sustainable community-based approach which intends to reduce new HIV infections among young South African women (ages 15-24). It uses an innovative behavioural change communication approach to address the vulnerabilities of young women.

Most practising psychologists have encountered patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. For the most part, they are fairly easy to diagnose based on the DMS 5 criteria – we typically look for signs of a lack of concern for others’ feelings, grandiosity, a sense of entitlement and self-indulgence. But just as there are nuances in the presentation of borderline patients, there may also be more than one type of narcissist.

This study sets out to investigate the challenges African children face throughout developmental transitions in the pathways of growing up to healthy adulthood in most African settings with particular reference to Cameroon. The transitional periods are tasks related and effective transitions characterised by effective demonstrations of skills and competences in the performance of specific tasks engaged in through socialization process.

Responding to change, novelty, variability and uncertainty.
In coming years, the world will undergo substantial change. To varying degrees, and in diff erent ways, industry will be reshaped around environmental demands and pressures, medical advancements will extend the human life span, pharmaceutical developments will present new possibilities for human functioning, communications technology will be reshaped around enhanced speed and extreme bandwidth, high-level globalised computing networks will accelerate information generation and dissemination, and expansion of electronic databases and resources will transform education and learning.