Recent Publications

       Books

Stoyanov D, Fulford KWM, Stanghellini G, Van Staden CW, Wong M. International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice. Springer, 2021.

Du Plessis RR. Pathways of Patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890 to 1907. Pretoria University Law Press, 2020.

Sadler JZ, Van Staden CW, Fulford KWM. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Chapters published in books (incomplete selection)

Mezzich JE, Van Staden CW. Person-centred African mental health: from the humanity of ubuntu to total health. In Global Mental Health In Africa: Towards Inclusivity, Innovations And Opportunities. DM Ndetei, TA Okasha (Eds) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (in press).

Van Staden CW. Unleashing therapeutic gain by deploying social aesthetic values in co-producing healthcare decisions. In Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics. Poltrum M, Musalek M, Fox H, Glavin K, Saito Y (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Van Staden CW, Cloninger CR, Cox J. A holistic framework: concepts of person and health. In Person-Centered Medicine. JE Mezzich, JW Appleyard, P Glare, R Wilson (Eds.) Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023.

Van Staden CW. “Thinking too much”: A clash of legitimate values in clinical practice calls for an indaba guided by African values based practice. In International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice. D Stoyanov, KWM Fulford, G Stanghellini, CW van Staden, M Wong (Eds). Springer, 2021.

Ujewe S, Van Staden CW. Policy-making indabas to prevent “not listening”: An added recommendation from the Life Esidimeni tragedy. In International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice. D Stoyanov, KWM Fulford, G Stanghellini, CW van Staden, M Wong (Eds). Springer, 2021.

Rashed M, Van Staden CW. Dangerous liaisons: science, tradition, and Qur’anic healing in the Dakhla oasis of Egypt. In International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice. D Stoyanov, KWM Fulford, G Stanghellini, CW van Staden, M Wong (Eds). Springer, 2021.

Fulford KWM, Van Staden CW. Finding a word for it: an ordinary language philosophical perspective on the role of values-based practice as a partner to evidence-based practice. In Global Mental Health and Neuroethics. Stein D, Singh I (Eds). Elsevier: Academic Press, 2020, pp. 17-36.

Kirmayer LJ, Mezzich JE, Van Staden CW. Health experience and values in person-centered assessment and diagnosis. In Person-Centered Psychiatry. Mezzich JE, Botbol M, Christodoulou G, Cloninger CR, Salloum I (Eds). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. 2016.

Christodoulou GN, Van Staden CW, Jousset D, Schwartz M, Mishara A, Mezzich JE. Ethics in Person-Centred Psychiatry. In Person-Centered Psychiatry. Mezzich JE, Botbol M, Christodoulou G, Cloninger CR, Salloum I (Eds). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. 2016.

Van Staden CW. A Brief History of Psychiatry. In Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry for Southern Africa (2nd ed). J Burns & JL Roos (Eds). Cape Town: Oxford University Press. 2016.

Van Staden CW, Modigoe T. Acute reactions to adverse life events. In Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry for Southern Africa (2^nd ed). J Burns & JL Roos (Eds). Cape Town: Oxford University Press. 2016.

Rashed MA, Du Plessis RR, Van Staden CW. Culture and Mental Health. In: Psychology: Themes & Variations, South African Edition. W Weiten, J Hassim (Eds.). Cengage: Boston. 2016. pp. 486–505.

Van Staden CW.  Informed Consent to Treatment: incapacity and complexity owing to mental disorder. In Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. JZ Sadler, CW van Staden, KWM Fulford (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015

Van Staden CW, Fulford KWM. The Indaba in African Values-based Practice: respecting diversity of values without ethical relativism or individual liberalism. In Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. JZ Sadler, CW van Staden, KWM Fulford (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015

Sadler JZ, Van Staden CW, Fulford KWM. Why an Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics? In Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. JZ Sadler, CW van Staden, KWM Fulford (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015.

Breed DG, Van Staden CW. A Reformational Christian Overview on Suffering, Guilt, Failures, and Related Issues in Psychiatry. In Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. JZ Sadler, CW van Staden, KWM Fulford (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015.

Crepaz-Keay D, Fulford KWM, Van Staden CW. Putting both a person and people first: interdependence, values-based practice and African Batho Pele as resources for co-production in mental health. In Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. JZ Sadler, CW van Staden, KWM Fulford (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015.

Van Staden CW. Philosophy and Psychiatry: a basic philosophical toolkit for clinicians. In Primary Care Psychiatry. SE Baumann (2^nd ed). Cape Town: Juta. 2015

Fulford KWM, Van Staden CW. Values-based practice: topsy-turvy take home messages from ordinary language philosophy. In Oxford Handbook of Philosophy & Psychiatry. KWM Fulford, M Davies, G Graham, JZ Sadler, G Stanghellini, R Gipps, T Thornton (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013.

Publications in peer-reviewed journals (incomplete selection)

 Vosloo C, Van Staden CW. Validity and reliability of the Agentive Steadfastness Index. International Journal of Psychology (in press).

Panebianco C, Lotter C, Du Plessis RR, Van Staden CW. Experienced impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on resilience, art activities and income among performance and visual artists in South Africa. Global Health Economics and Sustainability. 2023; 1(1):1-12.

Dlagnekova A, Van Staden CW. The validity of a therapeutic invigoration task in avolitional schizophrenia outpatients. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 2023; 1-16. (IF=3.0)

Van Staden W, Nienaber A, Rossouw T, Turner A, Filmalter C, Mercier AE, Nel JG, Bapela S, Beetge MM, Blumenthal R, Castelyn CDV, De Witt TW, Dlagnekova AG , Kotze C, Mangwane JS, Napoles L, Sommers R, Sykes L, Van Zyl WB, Venter M, Uys A, Warren N. Race in health research: considerations for researchers and research ethics committees. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law. 2023; 16:9-12.

Grobler G, Van Staden W. Algorithmic Assessments in Deciding on Voluntary, Assisted or Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment. Diagnostics. 2022; 12(8):1806. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12081806. (IF=3.992)

Lotter C, Van Staden W. Patients’ voices from music therapy at a South African psychiatric hospital. S Afr J Psychiat. 2022;28(0), a1884. https://doi.org/10.4102/ sajpsychiatry.v28i0.1884 (CiteScore=2.3).

Van Staden W, Dlagnekova A, Naidu K. Validity and Reliability of the Staden Schizophrenia Anxiety Rating Scale. Diagnostics. 2022; 12(4):831. doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040831 (IF=3.992).

Maré L, Van Staden W, Hassim J. Primary caregivers’ perspectives of the disruptive behaviour of their children attending Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, South Africa. Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 2022; 1-15. DOI: 10.2989/17280583.2022.2058952 (CiteScore=2.3).

Van Staden W. Values constitute the boundaries in between the rules of nature and social recognition. Philosophy Psychiatry & Psychology. 2021;28(4):315-317. (JCI=1.37, on 84th percentile for philosophy).

Dlagnekova A, Van Staden CW, Masenge A. Validity and reliability of the Vigour Assessment Scale in avolitional schizophrenia outpatients. Schizophrenia Research. 2021; 235:36-43. (IF=4.92).

Ujewe S, Van Staden CW. Inequitable access to healthcare in Africa: reconceptualising the “Accountability for Reasonableness Framework” to reflect indigenous principles. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2021; 20(139):1-11. (IF=3.19).

Du Plessis RF. Tales of Female Sexuality and Scandal: Lauren Beukes’s “Princess” and Archived Asylum Texts. Scrutiny 2020

Du Plessis RF. The life stories and experiences of the children admitted to the Institute for Imbecile Children from 1895 to 1913. African Journal of Disability, 2020

Du Plessis  RF.  The ‘gospel of fatness’ and acts of sitophobia: the foodscape and power relations at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890 to circa 1910. Gender Questions, 2020

Rossouw TM. MDRTB in South Africa – Sustaining Primary Healthcare Essentials in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2020.             

Rossouw TM, Nienaber A. Comorbidity in context: Medical considerations around HIV and TB during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa (Part I). South African Medical Journal, 2020

Rossouw TM, Nienaber A. Comorbidity in context: Ethico-legal considerations around HIV and TB during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa (Part II). South African Medical Journal, 2020

Rossouw TM. Consent for critical care research after death from COVID-19: arguments for a waiver. South African Medical Journal, 2020

Rossouw TM. An Analysis of Retracted Articles with African Authors or Co-Authors. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2020             

Rossouw TM. Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guidelines for harm reduction. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2020

Rossouw TM. “They come and knock at the gate until the neighbours see”. Perceived barriers and benefits of implementing HIV care at the community level in Tshwane district: A qualitative study          PlosONE, 2020

Rossouw TM. What could fair allocation of an efficacious COVID-19 vaccine look like in South Africa?     Lancet Global Health, 2020

Nienaber A, Muwanga TSN, Carstens PA. Debunking Religious and Cultural Misconceptions of Organ Donation and Transplantation. Southern African Public Law, 2019; 34 (2) 1 https://doi.org/10.25159/2522-6800/4122.         

Lotter R, Nienaber A. “Twenty years an accused: An analysis of two decades of proceedings against Doctor Wouter Basson”. Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg / Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law, 2020; 83 THRHR 170.

Nienaber A. Sophie’s choice”: HIV and ICU access during COVID-19. Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg / Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law, 2020; 83 THRHR 237.    

Thaldar DW, Notes M, Nienaber A. South Africa’s new standard material transfer agreement: proposals for improvement and pointers for implementation. BMC Medical Ethics, 2020; 21 85 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00526-x.

Pearton T, Van Staden W. The core Cultural Formulation Interview in yielding religious content among patients suffering from a current major depressive episode. Journal of Religion and Health. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01114-4

Naidu K, Van Staden CW, Fletcher L. Discerning undifferentiated anxiety from syndromal anxiety in acute-phase schizophrenia. Annals of General Psychiatry. 2020;19:1-10.

Paul N, Lotter C, Van Staden CW. Patients’ reflections on a course of music therapy following a major depressive episode or an acute phase of schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Journal of Music Therapy. 2020; 57(2):168-192.

Swanepoel I, Van Staden CW, Fletcher L. Resilience and vulnerability as mediators between adverse life events and fatigue, motor dysfunction and paresthesia in multiple sclerosis. Psychosomatic Medicine. 2020; 82(2):138-146.

Van Staden CW, Fulford KWM, Wong M. Conceptual work to advance psychiatric and neuroscientific sophistication: a report by the WPA Section on Philosophy and Humanities in Psychiatry. World Psychiatry. 2020; 19:126-127. IF=34.024

Van Staden CW. Crucial to optimal learning and practice of ethics: virtuous relationships and diligent processes that account for both shared and conflicting values. Philosophy Psychiatry & Psychology. 2019; 26:203-206.

Lotter C, Van Staden CW. Verbal affordances of active and receptive music therapy in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. The Arts in Psychotherapy 2019; 64:59-68.

Van Staden CW. The broadened scope of a person-centered approach to work, health and well-being. International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine, 2019;9.

Pepper MS, Alessandrini M, Pope A, Van Staden CW, Green RJ. Cell and gene therapies at the forefront of innovative medical care: Implications for South Africa. South African Medical Journal. 2019;109(1):20-22.

Rashed RA, Bingham R, Poole NA, Sanati A, Van Staden CW. Debate: the concept of culture has outlived its usefulness for psychiatry. British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin. 2018; 42(2):72-76.

Banda MM, Van Staden CW. The professionalism of psychiatry registrars as perceived by patients and various health practitioners at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Pretoria. South African Journal of Psychiatry. 2018; 24(0), a1166. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v24i0.1166.

Pepper MS, Alessandrini M, Pope A, Van Staden CW, Green RJ. Ethical considerations in the application of cell and gene therapies in children. South African Medical Journal. 2018; 108(12):1027.  https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2018.v108i12.13585

Sommers R, Van Staden CW. Views of clinical trial participants on the readability and their understanding of informed consent documents. American Journal of Bioethics Empirical Bioethics. 2017; 8(4):277-284.

Van Staden CW. Achievements hitherto and a new editorial team for the South African Journal of Psychiatry (editorial). South African Journal of Psychiatry. 2017; 23(0), a1145.

Joubert P, Van Staden CW. Non-pathological criminal incapacity and automatism: toward clarity for psychiatric testimony. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2016; 49:10-16.

Dodgen TM, Eloff A, Mataboge C, Roos JL, Van Staden CW, Pepper MS. Risperidone associated adverse events and cytochrome P450 2D6 polymorphisms in a South African cohort. Applied and Translational Genomics, 2015; 5:40-46.

Gbiri CA, Akinpelu OA, Ogunniyi A, Akinwutan EA, Van Staden CW. Predictors of functional recovery at six month post-stroke. Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2015; 6(1):49-54.

Gbiri CA, Akinpelu OA, Ogunniyi A, Van Staden CW. Psycho-social determinants of achievement of functional independence in individuals with first-ever stroke. International Journal of Therapies and Rehabilitation Research, 2015; 4(2):1-6.

Cloninger CR, Salvador-Carulla L, Kirmayer LJ, Schwartz MA, Appleyard J, Goodwin N, Groves J, Hermans MHM, Mezzich JE, Van Staden CW, Rawaf S. A time for action on health inequities: foundations of the 2014 Geneva Declaration on Person- and People-centered Integrated Health Care for All. International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine. 2014; 4:69-89.

Welgemoed M, Van Staden CW. Does religious identification of South African psychiatrists matter in their approach to religious matters in clinical practice? South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2014. 20:140-145.

Naidu K, Van Staden CW, Van der Linde M. Severity of psychotic episodes in predicting concurrent depressive and anxiety features in acute phase schizophrenia. BMC Psychiatry, 2014, 14:166. 

Van Staden CW. Examining fallacies in diagnostic reasoning. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2013; 19:528-530.

Van Staden CW. Desirable objects of evaluation for measuring person-centered medicine: conceptual considerations drawing on African insights. International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine. 2013, 3:187-190.