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Department of Psychiatry
and Mental Health
Head of Department: Professor Dan J. Stein
Departmental Profile
The Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health is
strongly committed to strengthening the integration
between services, teaching, and research. Clinicians
in each of the Divisions of the Department (addiction
psychiatry/psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry/
psychology, consultation-liaison psychiatry/psychology,
forensic psychiatry/psychology, general hospital
psychiatry/psychiatric intensive care, intellectual
disability, psychotherapy/neuroclinic, neuropsychiatry,
psychopharmacology, and public and community mental
health) are active in research in their particular areas. Thus
clinical research in the Department covers key clinical
problems that are relevant in the South African context,
including behavioural and neuropsychiatric aspects of
HIV/AIDS, substance use disorders (including fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder), adolescent risk-taking behaviour,
posttraumatic stress disorder, and mental health policy
and services.
In addition, the Department plays a key role in several cross-
departmental and cross-institutional research initiatives:
• The Brain-Behaviour Initiative (BBI) is one of UCT’s
signature themes. The initial focus of the BBI was on
trauma, but it has extended to include neuroHIV and
substance use disorders. More details of the aims,
methods, and partners, are available at - http://www.
health.uct.ac.za/research/groupings/bbi/overview/
• The Adolescent Health Research Unit is examining
adolescent risk-taking behaviour, predictors of
school dropout, and violence in intimate adolescent
relationships. Data analysis is in progress for two large
school-based cluster randomised control trials of AIDS
prevention.
• The Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health
addresses a range of questions in mental health policy
and implementation science, and offers advanced
training in public mental health. The Centre currently
conducts research in 8 low and middle-income countries
in Africa and south Asia, including the Programme for
Improving Mental health care (PRIME) (www.prime.uct.
ac.za) and the Africa Focus on Intervention Research for
Mental health (AFFIRM) (www.affirm.uct.ac.za) research
and capacity building initiatives. Within the Centre,
The Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP) contributes
research on maternal mental health from its own service
and training initiatives as well as in collaboration with
other partners.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract
staff
Professors
3
Emeritus Professors
5
Associate Professors
4
Senior Lecturers
35
Lecturers
9
Research Staff
35
Administrative and Clerical Staff
5
Total
96
Honorary Staff
Lecturers
8
Senior Lecturers
2
Professors
4
Total
14
Students
Postdoctoral / Clinical Research Fellows
6
Doctoral
11
Master’s
33
Total
50