Lunchtime Lecture

• 2022

  Social Responsiveness Lecture
  Tuesday, 2nd August
  Topic: Family violence: A family-centred perspective
  Speaker: Dr Jill Ryan
  Short bio

  Social Responsiveness Lecture
  Tuesday, 26th July
  Title: A proposal to strengthen Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in the Western Cape
  Speaker: Dr's Rene Nassen, Stella Mokitimi, Simphiwe Simelane
  Recording of lecture

   

  Social Responsiveness Lecture - Loren Leclezio lecture
  Tuesday, 7th June 
  Title: The Foundations of Autistic Flourishing
  Speaker: Professor Liz Pellicano
  Recording of lecture
  Short bio

  
   

  Social Responsiveness Lecture
  Tuesday, 10th May 
  Title: ‘The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change.’
  Speaker: Cynthia Rayner
  Recording of lecture here
  Short bio

  

  Social Responsiveness Lecture
  5th April 
  Title: The Gut-Brain Axis: in relation to its structure, function, mucus secretion and microbiota
  Speaker: Emeritus Professor Anwar Suleman Mall
  Short bio

  

  Social Responsiveness Lecture
  1st March 2022
  Title: Working with trauma in a country in trauma and a time of covid: working through grief and loss to find resilience
  Speaker: Valarie Sinason
  Recording of lecture here
  Short bio

  

   

  22nd February 2022
  Title: Public mental health: the case, challenges and opportunities
  Speaker: Prof Jonathan Campion
  Recording of talk
   

  Social Responsiveness Lecture
  8th February 2022
  Title: Infant Mental Health Practice & Education: Perspectives from South Africa
  Speaker: Anusha Lachman
  Short bio

  

   

   

• 2021

  9th November 2021

  Alan J. Flisher Memorial Lecture
  Title: Scars that run deep: Pervasive and pathogenic impact of trauma and PTSD
  Speakers: Prof Soraya Seedat
  Recording of the event
   

  5th October 2021
  Title: Problems of Living:  Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Cognitive-Affective Science
  Speakers: Dan Stein and Peter Smith
  Short overview and bio

  7th September 2021
  Social Responsiveness Lecture
  Title: The Collaborative Counselling Strategy
  Speaker: Waseem Hawa
  Short overview and bio

  
  31st August 2021
  Social Responsiveness lecture
  Title: Caring for children, adolescents and their families with chronic life-threatening health conditions
  Speaker: Marc Hendricks
  Recording available on YouTube
  
  24th August 2021
  Departmental Research Day
  Title: Ethics in Mental Health Research
  Speakers: Marc Blockman, Jantina De Vries, Olivia Matshabane
  Venue: Zoom 
  Programme overview

  25th June 2021
  Transformation Symposium
  Title: History Matters. A Symposium Exploring the Impact of Historical Racial Legacies on the Functioning of Institutions
  Symposium overview and programme
  Recording of Symposium on YouTube Part 1 and Part 2

  15th June 2021
  Speakers: Lisa Dannatt, Florencia Manns Fuenzalida, Vincent Zishiri
  Title: Drug use prevention and harm reduction among youth through peer-to-peer education
  Short Bio and programme
  Available on Youtube here

   

  Loren Leclezio Lecture
  1st June 2021
  Speaker: Lionel Green-Thompson
  Title: To whom shall we account
  Available on Youtube here

  

  25th May 2021
  Speaker: Ingrid Daniels (CEO of Cape Mental Health)
  Title: Social welfare consequences of the COVID -19 pandemic and its impact on    communities – finding some solutions
  Available on Youtube here

  

  Short bio and abstract

  13 April 2021
  Speaker: Prof Michael Berk
  Title: Prevention of depression
  Available on youtube here 

  
  Short bio and abstract

   

  9th March 2021
  Speaker: Dr Tahilia Rebello
  Title: Update on ICD-11
  Available on YouTube here

  

   

  2nd March 2021
  Speaker: Emeritus Prof Colleen Adnams
  Title: Intellectual and Developmental Disability: a current international outlook