Talks & Articles for Registered Counsellors

This Talk is for general interest and not for CPD.The clinical features of ADHD and that of Anxiety disorders in children are different, yet there are many symptoms that may overlap. In fact, the one condition could mimic ...

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Bellavista SHARE Professor Andre Venter

ADHD Medication

In the 21st century, most of us function in a highly technical environment, with the support of the latest smartphones, tablets and computers. We rely heavily on electronics to keep ourselves scheduled, organised and at th...

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Bellavista SHARE Dr Sharon Moonsamy

Memory

Tinnitus is influenced by different factors: auditory, perceptual, and psychological. Lara highlights the way in which psychology and personality intersect with neurophysiological elements in the maintenance of tinnitus, a...

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Calabash Lara Benigson

Tinnitus Audiology

This talk by clinical audiologist Natanya Berry will equip you with the skills to identify CAPD and distinguish its presentation from other diagnoses, such as ADHD. Natanya will outline symptoms and behavioural characteris...

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Calabash Natanya Berry

CAPD Child Psychology Learning Difficulties

Dr. Anusha Lachman offers guidance in weighing up the risks and benefits and assisting practitioners to make ethical decisions when working with young people. Dr. Lachman discusses some of the ethical concerns faced when a...

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Calabash Dr Anusha Lachman

Child Psychology Consent Medication

Salisha Maharaj, senior clinical psychologist at the Tygerberg Family and Adolescent Unit, will focus on how to conduct therapy with families. In this clear and engaging talk, Salisha discusses how to use key ideas from sy...

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Calabash Salisha Maharaj

Family

Learn about best practice in working with clients with posttraumatic stress, with Professor Gill Eagle. Gill looks at cognitive-behavioural techniques and EMDR and the core effective components of these, highlighting to pr...

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Calabash Prof. Gill Eagle

Trauma

The Polyvagal Theory is the product of decades of research by Stephen Porges. Through this lens we see the role of the autonomic nervous system as it shapes experiences of safety and affects our ability for connection. It ...

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Bellavista SHARE Natalie Solomon

Anxiety Neuropsychology

In this video, clinical neuroanatomist Dr. Coenie Hattingh outlines the anatomy and functioning of the frontal lobes, as well as dysfunction of the frontal lobes due to damage, making reference to the links between the sit...

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SACNA Dr. Coenie Hattingh

Brain Injury Neuropsychology

Psychotherapy with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients poses particular challenges. In this video, clinical psychologist Yvette Esprey offers an incisive understanding of the development of this disorder from an...

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Calabash Yvette Esprey

Borderline Personality Disorder Mentalisation Therapy

In this informative talk, Dr. Ella Brent outlines core concepts of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), an approach which directly addresses suicidal and self-harming behaviours. Dr. Brent outlines the state of mind which ...

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Calabash Dr. Ella Brent

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Mentalisation Mindfulness

For many of us, conflict is a fraught area, to be feared and avoided. Myrna Lewis, founder of Deep Democracy, views conflict as a unique opportunity for self-discovery and the deepening of relationships. In this video, Myr...

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Calabash Myrna Lewis

Couple Therapy Relationships

Anxiety is one of the most common complaints presented by clients in psychotherapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy offers effective and practical tools for tolerating and overcoming anxiety in its varied forms. Join CBT...

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Calabash Cindy Strydom

Anxiety Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Dr. Colinda Linde outlines various anxiety disorders and how to differentiate between them. She also discusses how depression links to the anxiety disorders. Lastly, Colinda discusses treatment options using a CBT framewor...

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Calabash Colinda Linde

Anxiety Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Employment as a healthcare professional in the public or private sector raises legal and ethical questions, and it is often tricky to find answers.Join Annelie van Der Westhuyzen, founder of Ethics Simplified and speech th...

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Ethics Simplified Annelie van der Westhuyzen

Ethics Code New Practice

This composite lecture offers a psychoanalytic view of our ethical responsibilities towards our clients. Five clinicians comprising the SAPC Ethics Advisory Committee (EAC) discuss how this way of interpreting ethical resp...

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Calabash Joan Schon Julia Kuhn Julie Green Sheri Davimes Yael Kadish

Ethics Code Psychoanalysis South Africa

In this challenging and illuminating talk, Yvette Esprey offers a framework for thinking about race and racial identity in the therapeutic encounter, suggesting that a relational psychoanalytic framework allows for the con...

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Calabash Yvette Esprey

Race Relational Psychoanalysis

Jungian psychology offers a unique and expansive view of the human psyche as moving towards individuation through integration of the worlds of the conscious and unconscious minds. In this video, Arizona-based Jungian analy...

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Calabash Susan Schwartz

Dreams Jungian Analysis

Therapists working with anorexia have particular challenges to deal with, including working with patients whose physical health may be at risk. Join experienced therapist and psychoanalyst in training, Yael Kadish, in expl...

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Calabash Yael Kadish

Anorexia Eating Disorders

Many children who have a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are treated on medication. This talk will focus on the aspects of ADHD which in itself impose barriers on learning, and the co-morbid le...

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Bellavista SHARE Professor Andre Venter

ADHD Medication

During the course of their professional careers, health professionals may be called upon to present expert opinion for court-related purposes. This talk outlines the duties of the expert witness to the court, drawing on ca...

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Calabash Gregory Whittaker

Forensic Work Legal Work

What are the unique psychological needs of infants? How can psychologists help parents to understand and meet these needs? Jenny Perkel, clinical psychologist and author of the bookBabies in Mind, discusses the emotional a...

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Calabash Jenny Perkel

Child Psychology Family Infants Relationships

In this presentation Mitzi will use a case study to explore brain injury and its impact on everyday life. Motor vehicle accidents, concussion and exposure to environmental toxins can all exhibit similar symptoms of brain i...

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Bellavista SHARE Mitzi Hollander

Brain Injury

This talk focuses on the intricate causes of child behaviours through looking at the brain and the neurological system. The speaker emphasizes throughout the talk: If a child could, he would.

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Bellavista SHARE Dr Melodie de Jager

Child Psychology Neuropsychology Sensory System

In this talk, clinical neuroanatomist Dr. Coenie Hattingh outlines the effects of traumatic brain injury on the brain, introducing and defining key terms relevant to this area, as well as primary and secondary effects of n...

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SACNA Dr. Coenie Hattingh

Brain Injury Neuropsychology

This talk introduces the process of child-centred mediation. The speaker, Sheetal Vallabh, is a clinical psychologist who specialises in this area. Sheetal defines mediation in the context of separation and divorce, and ex...

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Calabash Sheetal Vallabh

Divorce Family Relationships

This talk helps us understand the significant psychological impact of the paternal figure, and is based on a paper written by the speaker, where he reviews the psychoanalytic literature on the paternal function, identifyin...

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Calabash Nick Davies

Child Psychology Family Fathers Psychoanalysis

This talk is for general interest and not for CPD.Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric conditions in children and adolescents. They have an early age of onset, cause substantial impairment at school, hom...

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Bellavista SHARE Dr V Stancheva

Anxiety Child Psychology

The prevalence of anxiety disorders amongst school-aged children is on the rise, both in South Africa and across the globe. This debilitating condition impacts irrevocably on the young person's academic success as well as ...

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Bellavista SHARE Amy Coleman Danielle Gluckman

Anxiety Sensory System

This talk is for general interest and not for CPD.When a child reads fluently, it feels like magic! All of the words are effortlessly recognised and each sentence is read with expression. But what about our children who ar...

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Bellavista SHARE Dr Stephanie Gottwald

Reading

In this talk, actuary and expert witness Gregory Whittaker offers a window of insight into the Life Esidimeni tragedy, which involved the transfer of psychiatric patients from Life Esidimeni facilities to unlicensed and un...

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Calabash Gregory Whittaker

Human Rights Law

Emotional Intelligence refers to an individual/s capacity to be aware of, control, and express his or her emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. In this presentation Hennie will...

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Bellavista SHARE Hennie Vorster

Emotional Intelligence

Engaging adolescents in therapy requires an awareness of the challenges of this developmental phase, along with an understanding of how therapeutic technique should be modified to work most effectively with this population...

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Calabash Vanessa Hemp

Adolescence Family Therapy

Join Annelie van Der Westhuyzen, founder of Ethics Simplified and speech therapist with a masters in Bioethics & Health Law, as she demystifies issues around employment in the health care sector.This talk is a follow-on fr...

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Ethics Simplified Annelie van der Westhuyzen

Ethics Code New Practice

In this talk, Dr. Wendy Duncan discusses adolescence as a developmental phase, distinguishing normal features of this phase from signs & symptoms which are indicators for concern. She outlines some of the risk factors for ...

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Calabash Dr. Wendy Duncan

Adolescence Depression

Psychoanalytic couple therapy is based on the fascinating premise that the unconscious has a defining role to play in couple relationships. Tertia Myers, a Johannesburg-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a special i...

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Calabash Tertia Myers

Couple Therapy Psychoanalysis Relationships Therapy

This talk is for general interest and not for CPD.This talk addresses issues in ensuring that South African children will be multilingual. It focuses on the nature of language, language proficiency, the language learning c...

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Bellavista SHARE Prof H Jordaan

Multilingualism South Africa