Current postgraduate Students & fellows

Current postgraduate students & fellows

PhD student	Degree and title of thesis	Supervisor and Co-supervisor
Prof Gerhard Grobler	PhD (Psychiatry) Title: Predictive validity and reliability of an incapacity and legal status algorithm applied to purposively developed narratives depicting mood disorders	Prof W van Staden
Ms Camille Castelyn	PhD (Health Ethics) Title: A qualitative study of the values that underpin anticipated reproductive human cloning and enhancement through gene editing	Prof W van Staden Prof M Pepper
Ms Cristel Vosloo	PhD (Mental Health) Title: Validity and reliability of the Agentive Steadfastness Index and its relation to temperament and character	Prof W van Staden
Ms Phumelele Masondo	PhD (Mental Health) Title: A phenomenological study on experiencing others anomalously in early onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders	Prof W van Staden
Mr Veren Gyapersad	PhD (Mental Health) Title: Measurement and training of self-effacing empathy in a randomised parallel controlled single-blinded study in parent-adolescent dyads attending as psychiatric outpatients	Prof W van Staden
Ms Zola Zantile	PhD (Physiotherapy) Title: Ethical standards in the curriculum of undergraduate physiotherapy training in South Africa	Dr N Mshunqane Prof W van Staden

Current MPhil- Students

Dr C Anderson

Ms Gernia van Niekerk

Mr Bashu Pule

Dr Trevin Naidu

Ms Khutso Phalane

Ms Samsam Khanyile

Mr Theophilus Madamalala

Ms Makungu Valoyi

PhD Student	Degree and title of thesis	Graduation date	Supervisor and Co-supervisor
Dr Antonia Dlagnekova	PhD (Mental Health) Validity and reliability of the Vigour Assessment Scale (VAS) and invigoration tasks in remitted but avolitional schizophrenia patients	April 2020	Prof W van Staden
Dr Ellenor Meyer van Heerden	PhD (Health Ethics) The qualitative development of a practical and ethical framework for the integration of spiritual aspects in the health practitioner’s consultation	April 2020	Prof W van Staden
Dr Lanel Mare	PhD (Mental Health) Title: Perspectives of primary caregivers on the disruptive behaviour of children who attend as outpatients at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital	April 2019	Prof W van Staden
Prof Kalai Naidu	PhD (Psychiatry) Title: A symptomatologial study of syndromal and undifferentiated anxiety comorbid to schizophrenia	Sept 2018	Prof W van Staden
Dr Isabelle Swanepoel	PhD (Mental Health) Title: The effect of psychological resilience and vulnerability on the impact of adverse life events on fatigue, motor dysfunction and paraesthesiae in multiple sclerosis	Sep 2018	Prof W van Staden
Dr Rory du Plessis	PhD (Mental Health) Title: A critical discourse analysis of the casebooks by Dr T.D. Greenlees from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890-1907. Did pre-doc fellowship at the Max Planck Institute (Germany).	April 2018	Prof W van Staden
Dr Carol Lotter	PhD (Mental Health) Title: Qualitative experiences afforded by active and receptive music therapy techniques among patients suffering from schizophrenia spectrum disorder or depressive illness.	Sept 2017	Prof W van Staden
Dr JC Coetzee	PhD (Psychiatry) Title: Meanings of loneliness: The subjective experience of loneliness among psychiatric patients.	Sept 2015	Prof W van Staden
Dr R Sommers	PhD (Health Ethics) Title: Information that patients want to be captured in a consent document for participating in research on cancer and diabetes mellitus medication.	Sept 2015	Prof W van Staden
Prof PM Joubert	PhD (Psychiatry) Title: Emotionally triggered involuntary violent behaviour: conceptual criteria and their reliability	April 2015	Prof W van Staden

M-degree Student	Degree	Year graduated	Supervisor and Co-supervisor
Dr A Colin	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2021, cum laude	Prof W van Staden
Ms S Jacobs	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2021	Prof W van Staden
Ms D Malete	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2021	Prof W van Staden
Ms P Mokwena	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2021	Prof W van Staden
Dr M Banda	MMed(Psych) Title of publication: The professionalism of psychiatry registrars as perceived by patients and various health practitioners at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Pretoria.	2021	Prof W van Staden
Dr N Paul	MMed(Psych) Title of dissertation: Patients’ reflections on a course of music therapy following a major depressive episode or an acute phase of schizophrenia spectrum disorder	2019	Prof W van Staden
Ms L Schweickerdt	MA(Drama) (Co-supervisor) Title of dissertation: Process drama to facilitate the training of empathy skills in healthcare education	2019	Prof M Coetzee Prof W van Staden
Dr T Pearton	MMed(Psych) Title of dissertation: Religious content yielded by the standard and an adapted Cultural Formulation Interview among patients suffering from a current major depressive episode	2018	Prof W van Staden
Dr JP Roux	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2017, cum laude	Prof W van Staden
Dr U Chhagan	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2017	Prof W van Staden
Dr M Welgemoed	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2017	Prof W van Staden
Dr K Jhazbhay	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2016	Prof W van Staden
Ms A Maidment	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2016	Prof W van Staden
Dr L Daws	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2015	Prof W van Staden
Dr Lauren Gouws	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2015	Prof W van Staden
Dr MM Welgemoed	MMed (Psychiatry) Title of dissertation: Religious identification of South African psychiatrists and their approach to religious matters in clinical practice	2015	Prof W van Staden
Dr H Maung	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2014, cum laude	Prof W van Staden
Dr Deon Jordaan	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2014	Prof W van Staden
Dr RR du Plessis	MPhil (Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health)	2011, cum laude	Prof W van Staden
Prof K Naidu	MMed (Psychiatry) Title of dissertation: Severity of psychotic episodes in predicting concurrent depressive and anxiety features in acute phase schizophrenia	2011	Prof W van Staden
Dr AM Dikobe	MMed (Psychiatry) Title of dissertation: Deficient testosterone among men above 45 years with major depressive disorder: an age-matched case control study	2007	Prof W van Staden

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