{"title":"JOURNEYING ON THE PATH OF PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN INTEREST IN GENDER STUDIES: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT","authors":"E. Long","doi":"10.25159/1812-6371/1633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/1812-6371/1633","url":null,"abstract":"In 2006 I embarked on a journey at the University of Stellenbosch for a BSc programme in Human Life Sciences. Nearing the end of undergraduate studies, I applied for honours in psychology and was accepted. While doing my honours, I felt a need to be more involved in the community of my home town. I volunteered at the local police station in Kraaifontein, Cape Town as a victim supporter. My role was to offer emotional support to victims of crime and trauma. At that point in time I thought the obvious routes for me in psychology would either be Clinical or Counselling Psychology.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69123332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT: THINKING INNOVATIVELY IN CONTEXTS OF DIVERSITY","authors":"S. Maseko","doi":"10.25159/1812-6371/1629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/1812-6371/1629","url":null,"abstract":"Psychometric assessments in South Africa have been marred by controversy. Not only has the discipline of psychology been accused of being complicit with the apartheid regime, but some even argue that in post-apartheid South Africa psychology continues to maintain structural legacies introduced by apartheid (Suffla & Seedat, 2004). The book Psychological Assessment: Thinking innovatively in contexts of diversity attempts to grapple with these historical matters and how they affect psychometric practice in South Africa. The current text does this candidly without burying the reader in a heap of psychometric jargon.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69123310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Quarshie, F. Annor, J. Andoh-Arthur, Theophilus Tagoe, Evelyn Osei-Poku
{"title":"PSYCHOLOGISTS IN GHANA: ANALYSIS OF THE STANDING REGISTER","authors":"E. Quarshie, F. Annor, J. Andoh-Arthur, Theophilus Tagoe, Evelyn Osei-Poku","doi":"10.25159/1812-6371/1627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/1812-6371/1627","url":null,"abstract":"The maiden register of the Ghana Psychological Council published in September 2015 represents the first national official standing register of psychologists in Ghana. Drawing on this maiden register, this paper presents a seminal analysis of the distribution of psychologists in Ghana in terms of categories of specialisation, gender composition, areas of employment, location of practice, and institutions of training. A copy of the gazette of registered psychologists was obtained from the office of the registrar of the Ghana Psychological Council and quantitative content analysis was conducted on the list of registered mainstream psychologists. Among other things, the analysis shows that there are 166 (largely Ghanaian-trained) psychologists categorised into six main subfields in the country. Females represent the majority in terms of gender composition. Colleges/polytechnics/universities are the main areas of employment; the practising locations of 69.9% of the psychologists are in Accra, with no psychologist registered from the Brong-Ahafo and Upper East regions. Despite the challenges with the maiden register of psychologists in Ghana, the register does provide a good database for reflections on the availability, diversity and distribution of psychologists in Ghana.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"602 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69122420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sally John, Rachel Kearns, Brent A Johnson, Claudia E Ordóñez, Baohua Wu, Anna Hare, Peng Wu, Patrick Sullivan, Henry Sunpath, Vincent C Marconi
{"title":"Religious Beliefs and Depression: Psychosocial Factors Affecting HIV Treatment Outcomes in South Africa.","authors":"Sally John, Rachel Kearns, Brent A Johnson, Claudia E Ordóñez, Baohua Wu, Anna Hare, Peng Wu, Patrick Sullivan, Henry Sunpath, Vincent C Marconi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analyzing factors associated with virological failure (VF) may improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) outcomes for individuals living with HIV. The Risk Factors for Virological Failure (RFVF) study compared 158 cases with VF (viral load, VL, >1,000 copies/mL) and 300 controls with virological suppression (VL ≤1,000 copies/mL) after ≥5 months on their first ART regimen at McCord Hospital in Durban, South Africa between October 2010 and June 2012. RFVF participants completed a battery of various psychosocial measures. Using multivariate logistic regression stratified for gender, the association of various psychosocial factors with VF was assessed. It was found that not all factors were equally significant for both genders. The factors that were significantly associated with VF for both genders were younger age, shorter treatment duration and reporting depressive symptoms. The factors associated with VF that differed by gender were religious inactivity, having HIV+ family members, and status disclosure to friends.</p>","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"12 2","pages":"2-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6011752/pdf/nihms926347.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41159715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaging the Rural: Modernity and Agrarianism in Hiroshi Hamaya's Snow Land Photographs","authors":"R. Tunney","doi":"10.21159/nvjs.07.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/nvjs.07.01","url":null,"abstract":"Th is article analyses the Snow Land photographic series by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya [1915–1999] in relation to issues of modernity, nostalgia and discourses of agrarianism in 1940s and 1950s Japan. Hamaya is one of Japan’s most celebrated and infl uential documentary photographers at both a national and international level. His Snow Land series presents an idyllic view of life in the small mountain villages of Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, emphasising a sense of community and spiritual meaning that Hamaya perceived to be lacking in modern society. In this sense, Snow Land constituted a critique of modernity. Th rough engagement with theorists such as Heidegger, Foucault and Barthes, as well as critical writings on agrarian ideology, this article investigates the underlying assumptions that govern Hamaya’s depiction of snow country, demonstrating that the series is shaped by a modern worldview and is tied to ideological discourses of agrarianism.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80081285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A PILOT EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEMPERAMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN 12–18 YEAR-OLD CHILDREN BORN AT EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT","authors":"Dannita Borrageiro","doi":"10.25159/1812-6371/1624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/1812-6371/1624","url":null,"abstract":"This pilot study was aimed at exploring the temperament and psychopathology distribution amongst adolescents born at extremely low birth weight (ELBW), i.e. < 1000g. ELBW adolescents (N = 15) completed the Revised Cheek and Buss Scale and Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview 5.0.0 (M.I.N.I.), while their legal guardians completed a biographical questionnaire. The median age of the sample was 13 SD = 2.526 years (60% male) and all participants spoke English. The results suggest that being born at ELBW is associated with shyness in adolescence. Anxieties, mood and hyperactivity symptoms were prevalent. Planning of interventions for ELBW individuals should therefore include strategies to prevent or mitigate the effects of these factors in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69122577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Activiating the Zone of Proximal Development of Japanese Language Learners: Language-Exchange Partnerships (LEPs) at an Australian University","authors":"Hiromi Nishioka","doi":"10.21159/NV.06.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.06.06","url":null,"abstract":"!is study examines how social interactions in language-exchange partnership sessions can create opportunities for Japanese language learners to use and learn Japanese. !e participants in this study were two pairs, consisting of a Japanese native speaker and an Australian studying Japanese at an Australian university. !is study, employing Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development and assistance to novices by experts, examined what factors enable participants in language-exchange partnerships to provide or receive language assistance within Japanese language learners’ zones of proximal development. As a result of the analysis, this study identi\"ed two important factors that had this e#ect: using shared learning experience in language-exchange partnerships, and actively negotiating the level of assistance. Language-exchange partnerships are a new type of learning experience for many participants. It can be anticipated that some participants may struggle to interact and learn from the interaction in the sessions. !erefore, this paper will provide pedagogical suggestions to improve interactions and learning outcomes from language-exchange partnerships. Moreover, suggestions for future research directions are presented in the conclusion of this paper.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"304 1","pages":"145-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79797158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Newspaper Reporting of Whaling in Australia and Japan: A Comparative Content Analysis","authors":"Tets Kimura","doi":"10.21159/NV.06.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.06.07","url":null,"abstract":"!e ongoing dispute over whaling is a signi\"cant issue of con#ict between Australia and Japan. It appears that the print media in each country supports the dominant opinion: anti-whaling in Australia, and pro-whaling in Japan. To investigate media perspectives, this study reviews newspaper coverage throughout a whaling season (15 December 2007 – 24 March 2008), analysing 48 articles from Australian newspapers (in English) and 51 articles from Japanese newspapers (in Japanese). Content analysis was employed to identify the characteristics of the newspaper articles. It is believed that reporting can contribute to cultural and political transparency by providing comprehensive views on the whaling issue. However, the \"ndings here indicate that the current state of whaling reporting tends to be one-sided. !is study assesses how the whaling issue is reported in both Australia and Japan, and what in#uences that reporting. It also focuses on Japan’s kisha club (reporters’ club) system to shed some light on why Japanese journalists report pro-whaling perspectives given international criticism from Australia.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"173-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81389262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notions of Japaneseness in Western Interpretations of Japanese Garden Design, 1870s-1930s","authors":"C. Craig","doi":"10.21159/NV.06.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.06.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72410490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music in Kamigata Rakugo Performance","authors":"Catherine Hallett","doi":"10.21159/NV.06.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.06.04","url":null,"abstract":"Rakugo is the Japanese tradition of staged comic storytelling presented by highly trained hanashika storytellers associated with small urban variety theatres called yose, found in the Kamigata and Edo regions. Although yose theatres are associated with spoken rather than musical events, music is an integral component of Kamigata rakugo performance. It is central both to the rendering of a storyteller’s performance and to creating the overall atmosphere in the yose theatre. !is paper addresses the lack of detailed research on music in Kamigata rakugo performance, particularly in English. It demonstrates and documents the centrality of music in Kamigata rakugo performance, speci\"cally the way that this music, which is rich in symbolism, aids a storyteller’s performance and is intrinsically bound up in the hierarchical structure of the storytellers and yose-bayashi ensemble musicians. It focuses on how the music functions in the performances, transmitting meanings and supporting the social structure of the ensemble.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"36 1","pages":"91-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72806614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}