Victor Nell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3927547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Nell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Nell |
| SIGNATURE | NELL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Standardising the Wais-III and the WMS-III for South Africa
The South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has entered into a licencing agreement with the Psychological Corporation to norm the third revision of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-Ill) for use with South African adults. The WAIS-III was co-normed in the United States with the Wechsler Memory Scale - 3rd Revision (WMS-III). Both scales were published in 1997, and both depart in important method, content, and factor analyti…
Critical psychology and the problem of mental health
Interpretation and Misinterpretation of the South African Wechsler-Bellevue Adult Intelligence Scale
The South African Wechsler is based on the 1939 Wechsler-Bellevue Adult Intelligence Scale. However, the name under which it was published by the National Institute of Personnel Research in 1969, the ‘South African Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale’, has led a generation of South African psychologists to believe that this instrument is a local verson of the 1955 WAIS, a fundamentally revised and renormed Wechsler-Bellevue. It is argued that the c…
Authoritarianism and Autonomy. 1. Conflicting Value Systems in the Introduction of Psychological Services in a South African Primary Health Care System
Psychology functions within the context of South Africa's ruling ideology, resistance discourse and national health care philosophy. Using a psychological skills training programme in the Soweto Community Health Centre System in Johannesburg as a case study, the authors examine how the introduction of psychological services in primary health care is both enabled and constrained by state ideology, medical hegemony, professional interests and perso…
The Case for an Independent Licensing Board for Psychology
Medicine and psychology are constrained to collaborate with one another in their common human service enterprise, but are methodologically separated by psychology's loquacity, its dependence on words, and the silence of the medical gaze, its wordlessness. If psychology is co-opted by the politically more powerful medical profession, it cannot attain its full human welfare potential. Its professional development is stunted, it is subordinated to p…
Family therapy in primary health care
Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in Johannesburg-II. Morbidity, mortality and etiology
Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in Johannesburg-I. Methodological issues in a developing country context
Third world or one world
The development of psychological services for South Africa's 30 million black people has been stunted by the mystical view, allegedly derived from cross-cultural psychology, that ‘first-world’ psychology is culturally inappropriate for a ‘third-world clientele’, and that for effective service delivery, psychologists must undergo a radical acculturation process before they can join with the epistemology of this clientele. A theoretical base is dev…
One world, one psychology
Intellectual and political separatism have propagated two ideas deeply damaging to psychology in the developing countries, and in Africa in particular. One is that the working class of the developing countries — the poor, the ill-educated, and the rural — inhabit a third world that is at a lower evolutionary level than the glittering first world of psychologists and other professionals. The second is that until an indigenous third world (or Afric…
Rage Dyscontrol
Rage dyscontrol, defined as rage outbursts that are strikingly disproportionate to the provoking stimulus, ranges in intensity from verbal abuse through to episodes of sufficient violence to cause significant property damage, injury, or death to others. The emergence and current status of rage dyscontrol as a distinct clinical entity are reviewed, a typology of dyscontrol constructed, and its known organic substrates described. The dyscontrol syn…
Rage Dyscontrol
Rage dyscontrol, described and defined in Part 1 of this article (this issue), presents health care professionals with difficult and invariably urgent treatment problems, since rage outbursts disproportionate to the provocation are corrosive of relationships and readily lead to institutionalization. The manifestations of dyscontrol after traumatic brain injury are described in the light of case studies, and its precipitating organic and dynamic f…
Psychological Preparation for Gastroscopy
The efficacy of psychological preparation for gastroscopy was investigated by allocating 43 subjects presenting for routine diagnostic gastroscopy to three groups. Of these, eight received a detailed 40-minute preparation with information on the gastroscope, the examination procedure, sensations to be expected, and a variety of coping mechanisms, including relaxation techniques; 15 subjects had a 10-minute preparation in which brief procedural an…
Lost in a Book
Lost in a Book
The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure
At the Heart of Darkness
One world, one psychology
Intellectual and political separatism have propagated two ideas deeply damaging to psychology in the developing countries, and in Africa in particular. One is that the working class of the developing countries — the poor, the ill-educated, and the rural — inhabit a third world that is at a lower evolutionary level than the glittering first world of psychologists and other professionals. The second is that until an indigenous third world (or Afric…
Third world or one world
The development of psychological services for South Africa's 30 million black people has been stunted by the mystical view, allegedly derived from cross-cultural psychology, that ‘first-world’ psychology is culturally inappropriate for a ‘third-world clientele’, and that for effective service delivery, psychologists must undergo a radical acculturation process before they can join with the epistemology of this clientele. A theoretical base is dev…
The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure
Authoritarianism and Autonomy. 1. Conflicting Value Systems in the Introduction of Psychological Services in a South African Primary Health Care System
Psychology functions within the context of South Africa's ruling ideology, resistance discourse and national health care philosophy. Using a psychological skills training programme in the Soweto Community Health Centre System in Johannesburg as a case study, the authors examine how the introduction of psychological services in primary health care is both enabled and constrained by state ideology, medical hegemony, professional interests and perso…
Standardising the Wais-III and the WMS-III for South Africa
The South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has entered into a licencing agreement with the Psychological Corporation to norm the third revision of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-Ill) for use with South African adults. The WAIS-III was co-normed in the United States with the Wechsler Memory Scale - 3rd Revision (WMS-III). Both scales were published in 1997, and both depart in important method, content, and factor analyti…
Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in Johannesburg-II. Morbidity, mortality and etiology
Interpretation and Misinterpretation of the South African Wechsler-Bellevue Adult Intelligence Scale
The South African Wechsler is based on the 1939 Wechsler-Bellevue Adult Intelligence Scale. However, the name under which it was published by the National Institute of Personnel Research in 1969, the ‘South African Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale’, has led a generation of South African psychologists to believe that this instrument is a local verson of the 1955 WAIS, a fundamentally revised and renormed Wechsler-Bellevue. It is argued that the c…
Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in Johannesburg-I. Methodological issues in a developing country context
Family therapy in primary health care
The Case for an Independent Licensing Board for Psychology
Medicine and psychology are constrained to collaborate with one another in their common human service enterprise, but are methodologically separated by psychology's loquacity, its dependence on words, and the silence of the medical gaze, its wordlessness. If psychology is co-opted by the politically more powerful medical profession, it cannot attain its full human welfare potential. Its professional development is stunted, it is subordinated to p…
Rage Dyscontrol
Rage dyscontrol, defined as rage outbursts that are strikingly disproportionate to the provoking stimulus, ranges in intensity from verbal abuse through to episodes of sufficient violence to cause significant property damage, injury, or death to others. The emergence and current status of rage dyscontrol as a distinct clinical entity are reviewed, a typology of dyscontrol constructed, and its known organic substrates described. The dyscontrol syn…
Psychological Preparation for Gastroscopy
The efficacy of psychological preparation for gastroscopy was investigated by allocating 43 subjects presenting for routine diagnostic gastroscopy to three groups. Of these, eight received a detailed 40-minute preparation with information on the gastroscope, the examination procedure, sensations to be expected, and a variety of coping mechanisms, including relaxation techniques; 15 subjects had a 10-minute preparation in which brief procedural an…
At the Heart of Darkness
At the Heart of Darkness
Lost in a Book
The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure
Lost in a Book
Third world or one world
The development of psychological services for South Africa's 30 million black people has been stunted by the mystical view, allegedly derived from cross-cultural psychology, that ‘first-world’ psychology is culturally inappropriate for a ‘third-world clientele’, and that for effective service delivery, psychologists must undergo a radical acculturation process before they can join with the epistemology of this clientele. A theoretical base is dev…
One world, one psychology
Intellectual and political separatism have propagated two ideas deeply damaging to psychology in the developing countries, and in Africa in particular. One is that the working class of the developing countries — the poor, the ill-educated, and the rural — inhabit a third world that is at a lower evolutionary level than the glittering first world of psychologists and other professionals. The second is that until an indigenous third world (or Afric…
Rage Dyscontrol
Rage dyscontrol, defined as rage outbursts that are strikingly disproportionate to the provoking stimulus, ranges in intensity from verbal abuse through to episodes of sufficient violence to cause significant property damage, injury, or death to others. The emergence and current status of rage dyscontrol as a distinct clinical entity are reviewed, a typology of dyscontrol constructed, and its known organic substrates described. The dyscontrol syn…
Rage Dyscontrol
Rage dyscontrol, described and defined in Part 1 of this article (this issue), presents health care professionals with difficult and invariably urgent treatment problems, since rage outbursts disproportionate to the provocation are corrosive of relationships and readily lead to institutionalization. The manifestations of dyscontrol after traumatic brain injury are described in the light of case studies, and its precipitating organic and dynamic f…
Psychological Preparation for Gastroscopy
The efficacy of psychological preparation for gastroscopy was investigated by allocating 43 subjects presenting for routine diagnostic gastroscopy to three groups. Of these, eight received a detailed 40-minute preparation with information on the gastroscope, the examination procedure, sensations to be expected, and a variety of coping mechanisms, including relaxation techniques; 15 subjects had a 10-minute preparation in which brief procedural an…
Family therapy in primary health care
Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in Johannesburg-II. Morbidity, mortality and etiology
Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in Johannesburg-I. Methodological issues in a developing country context
Authoritarianism and Autonomy. 1. Conflicting Value Systems in the Introduction of Psychological Services in a South African Primary Health Care System
Psychology functions within the context of South Africa's ruling ideology, resistance discourse and national health care philosophy. Using a psychological skills training programme in the Soweto Community Health Centre System in Johannesburg as a case study, the authors examine how the introduction of psychological services in primary health care is both enabled and constrained by state ideology, medical hegemony, professional interests and perso…
The Case for an Independent Licensing Board for Psychology
Medicine and psychology are constrained to collaborate with one another in their common human service enterprise, but are methodologically separated by psychology's loquacity, its dependence on words, and the silence of the medical gaze, its wordlessness. If psychology is co-opted by the politically more powerful medical profession, it cannot attain its full human welfare potential. Its professional development is stunted, it is subordinated to p…
Interpretation and Misinterpretation of the South African Wechsler-Bellevue Adult Intelligence Scale
The South African Wechsler is based on the 1939 Wechsler-Bellevue Adult Intelligence Scale. However, the name under which it was published by the National Institute of Personnel Research in 1969, the ‘South African Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale’, has led a generation of South African psychologists to believe that this instrument is a local verson of the 1955 WAIS, a fundamentally revised and renormed Wechsler-Bellevue. It is argued that the c…
Critical psychology and the problem of mental health
Standardising the Wais-III and the WMS-III for South Africa
The South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has entered into a licencing agreement with the Psychological Corporation to norm the third revision of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-Ill) for use with South African adults. The WAIS-III was co-normed in the United States with the Wechsler Memory Scale - 3rd Revision (WMS-III). Both scales were published in 1997, and both depart in important method, content, and factor analyti…
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