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Health Sciences
• Child Abuse Data base development commenced in
2012.
• Extensive pain management related research
undertaker by Rene Albertyn.
• Post Graduate studies 2013, X2 social work staff
members registered for Master’s in social work
Shihaam Cader and Bernadette Saayman [Dietitians]
Case Series report of all patients receiving SMOF IV
lipid at RCWMCH
Department of Paediatrics
and Child Health
Affiliated Disciplines
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
Head of Unit: Dr Wendy Vogel
Unit Profile
The clinical services associated with the Division of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry are offered in the following
units: Outpatient Unit; Consultation-Liaison Unit; Parent-
infant Mental Health Service; and Therapeutic Learning
Centre (an in-patient unit for children under 13 years.)
Training is provided for psychiatric registrars and clinical
psychology interns. In addition, the Division offers a two-
year M. Phil. (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) degree,
which leads to registration as a sub-specialist in Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Health Professions
Council of SA. In addition, staff members in the Division
supervise candidates for postgraduate degrees such as
Master’s and Doctoral degrees. Research interests include
adolescent and infant mental health, autism and ADHD,
community mental health services research and behavioural
manifestations of HIV infection.
Unit Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Associate Professor
1
Senior Lecturers
4
Lecturers
2
Emeritus Professor
1
Honorary staff
3
Total
11
Students
Master’s
2
Registrars Junior
2
Registrars Senior
2
Total
6
*MBChB students rotate through the Division
Research Fields and Staff
Dr Wendy Vogel:
Lecturer; ADHD and autism and service delivery.
Brian Robertson
Emeritus Professor; child and adolescent psychiatric
epidemiology; impact of violence on children; development
of community mental health services; integration of mental
health services at primary care level; youthful perpetrators
of violent crime; cultural psychiatry and indigenous healers.
Astrid Berg
Associate Professor; Senior lecturer and consultant, analytic
psychotherapy; infant mental health; culture and mental
health.
Rod Anderson
Senior Lecturer; analytic psychotherapy.
Willem de Jager
Senior Lecturer: Parent-child relational problems
Nic Shortall
Senior Lecturer; psycho social sequelae of chronic physical
illness and medical student training / assessment.
Jon Yako
Senior lecturer; Cross-Cultural Child Development;
Personality & Identity; Family Intervention Research, Social
Psychology
Marian Campbell
Senior Lecturer: The relationship between developmental
and attachment theories and theory of mind leading to
the ability in children and adolescents to symbolize and
develop reflective functions.
Professor Petrus de Vries
Sue Struengmann Professor of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry