David J A Edwards

Dados Biográficos

ID135215
NOMEDavid J A Edwards
PRENOMESDavid J A
SOBRENOMEEdwards
ASSINATURAEDWARDS D J A
AFILIAÇÕESRhodes University
ORCID0000-0002-5755-9337
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES16
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1970
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • The time course of the rate of speaker transitions in conversation

    Open AccessDavid J A Edwards, Don Raymond Edwards et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2024

    Using over 500 hours of recorded conversations from the CallHome and CallFriend corpora (MacWhinney & Wagner 2010), this study analyzes conversations to measure gaps and overlaps in speaker transitions. It builds on previous work in (1) measuring speaker transitions by using custom software that measures single speaker segments based solely on acoustic evidence, without the need for a transcription or manual configuration, and (2) by breaking dow…

  • Health from the Grassroots, Listening to Mob

    Open AccessEmma Walke, Kathleen Conte et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Background: There is opportunity for Universities to actively engage with Aboriginal communities to participate, conduct, and ideally lead, responsible research that attends to community priorities and issues. The Health from the Grassroots (Grassroots) project seeks to address an ongoing mismatch between university-defined priorities and community-defined priorities in rural [***]. Grassroots, led by Aboriginal staff of the [***], is a community…

  • Where our identity lies

    Open AccessEmma Walke, Marcelle Louise Townsend-Cro et al.ARTICLEAlterNative An International…2024Referências: 13

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are facing growing levels of scrutiny to prove their identity to access Indigenous-specific government services designed to mitigate the impacts of past government policies. Yet, it is those who have been most severely impacted by past government policies of forcible removal from Country and separation of families who often face challenges obtaining evidence to prove their Indigeneity. Employing narra…

  • Stress and coping among student teachers at a South African university

    Lucy Draper-Clarke, Lucy J Draper-Clarke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2016

    This article reports findings from an exploratory qualitative study on the lived experience of stress among a convenience sample of 14 South African university student teachers (female = 8, black = 7; age range = 22 to 31). The students were participating in training in mindfulness meditation, and completed three interviews over a six-week period on stressors impacting on their personal and professional lives and on how they experienced them and …

  • Rape Survivors' Experiences of the Silent Protest

    Open AccessAnita Padmanabhanunni, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2016Citada por: 1Referências: 33

    This article examines the experiences of nine rape survivors who participated in the Silent Protest, an annual protest march at Rhodes University that aims to highlight the sexual abuse of women, validate the harm done, and foster solidarity among survivors. Participants responded to a semi-structured interview focusing on the context of their rape and its impact, and their experiences of participation in the Protest. In the first phase of data a…

  • The Queen

    David J A Edwards, Susan DoranCHAPTERElizabethan World2014

    Ireland - 1 - Security and conquest

  • It's Like Uprooting Trees”

    François van der Linde, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2013

    This systematic case study documents 27 sessions of assessment and treatment with cognitive therapy of Bongi (23) who presented with major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline traits. Bongi had been raised in a punitive environment, had been raped three times, the first time at age 9, and had been in a series of abusive relationships. The treatment illustrates the importance of therapist responsiveness in addressing this kind …

  • Responsive Integrative Treatment of Clients with PTSD and Trauma-Related Disorders

    David J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2013

    In this article a practitioner oriented review of the literature on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder is used to construct a phase-based model that can serve as a basis for case formulation and treatment planning. Treatments shown to be efficacious in randomized controlled trials are listed and two discourses about them are contrasted. One calls for therapists to implement treatments scrupulously according to the manual, the other c…

  • Victimisation in the Lives of Lesbian-Identified Women in South Africa

    Anita Padmanabhanunni, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2013

    Few clinical studies have examined victimisation in the lives of lesbian women in South Africa and whether there are distinct implications for psychological treatment. This paper presents the assessment and treatment of a lesbian-identified South African survivor of childhood sexual abuse who, as an adult, was raped and later gang raped. Her victimisation in adulthood represented ‘corrective rape’ motivated by the prejudiced assumption that the s…

  • Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following an Armed Robbery

    Bradley Drake, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2012

    John, an urban African male who developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following an armed robbery at the petrol station where he worked, was treated with 12 sessions of Trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy. Intervention involved a combination of psychoeducation, prolonged imaginal exposure, cognitive restructuring and behavioural assignments. This article is a systematic case study of his treatment which included a comprehensive nar…

  • Counseling People of African Ancestry

    Open AccessFred J van Staden, Lisa Lopez Levers et al.BOOKCounseling People of African…2011

    This volume advances a uniquely Afro-centric, sociocultural understanding of health maintenance and risk reduction in African cultural heritage populations. It unites a diverse group of leading African and Africanist scholars in an exploration of common cultural values in African heritage communities and their practical applications in contemporary counseling. The chapters highlight the prominent health issues faced in Africanist settings today a…

  • Post Abortion Syndrome is a Clinical Reality

    David J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2009

    Macleod (2009) criticizes Boulind and Edwards (2008) for using the concept of post-abortion syndrome (PAS) in their conceptualization of the case of Grace. This article responds to this by arguing the following points: 1) the appropriation of PAS into anti-abortion rhetoric is not sufficient reason to abandon it since this rhetoric distorts the facts, 2) methodological difficulties cited by Macleod in identifying the nature of the distress experi…

  • Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in South Africa

    David J A Edwards, David EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2009

    The article presents a model for formulating and planning treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in South Africa derived from the existing literature and in conjunction with a review of a series of studies of cases treated using the guidelines of Ehlers and Clark's cognitive therapy. It is argued that the construction of psychotherapies (or even components of psychotherapy) for PTSD in terms of traditional categories (“psychodynamic”…

  • Development and Validation of the Xhosa Translations of the Beck Inventories

    Gary I Steele, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2008

    The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) were translated into Xhosa, a language widely spoken in South Africa to yield translated scales referred to as the XBDI-I (Xhosa BDI-II), the XBAI (Xhosa BAI) and the XBHS (Xhosa BHS). These scales were administered to a sample of 122 Xhosa respondents which included students and patients. The psychometric properties of the translate…

  • The Assessment and Treatment of Post-Abortion Syndrome

    Melissa Boulind, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2008

    This article reports a clinical case study of “Grace”, a black Zimbabwean woman with post-abortion syndrome (PAS), a form of post-traumatic stress disorder precipitated by aborting an unwanted pregnancy. She was treated by a middle class white South African trainee Clinical Psychologist. The case narrative documents the assessment and the course of treatment which was guided by ongoing case formulation based on current evidence-based models. Fact…

  • Development and Validation of the Xhosa Translations of the Beck Inventories

    Gary I Steele, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2008

    This article describes the translation of the Beck Depression Inventory-II, the Beck Hopeless Scale, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory, into Xhosa the language spoken in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The processes of translation, back-translation and committee discussion failed to yield trustworthy translations because of practical difficulties in working with translators. Critical words and phrases were identified which gave rise to lack of agr…

  • Development and Validation of the Xhosa Translations of the Beck Inventories

    David J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2008

    This article provides data on the validity of the Xhosa versions of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (XBDI-II), the Beck Hopelessness Scale (XBHS) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (XBAI) based on a sample of 122 Xhosa respondents which included students and patients. For patients, clinicians completed rating scales of Depression and Anxiety symptoms. In tests of concurrent validity, depressed patients had significantly higher scores on the XBDI-II …

  • From trauma debriefing to trauma support

    Gerrit van Wyk, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2006

    This paper documents the approach and experience of Traumaclinic, a Cape Town based organisation offering a trauma support service. The controversy over single session debriefing interventions is examined and it is concluded that interventions that invite intense emotional expression should not be offered indiscriminately or forced on those who do not want them. When they do occur, they need to be carefully managed and take place over several ses…

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder as a public health concern in South Africa

    David J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2006

    This article briefly surveys the extent to which traumatic events are a feature of life all over Africa and provides a comprehensive review of research that documents the pervasiveness of traumatic events in South Africa and the prevalence of PTSD symptoms. The material reviewed includes statistics on crime, violence and accidents, research from clinical settings, and surveys. Several provide evidence for the causal link between traumatic events …

  • Trauma, imagery and the therapeutic relationship

    Belinda Karpelowsky, David J A Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2006

    This paper, a phenomenological case study, describes the psychotherapy of Langu (pseudonym), a 21-year-old student, who presented with Acute Stress Disorder following a series of motor accidents that affected him and his family. Langu's most distressing experience was having to identify his brother's mutilated and severely burned body. Because of the intensity of the intrusive re-experiencing of traumatic imagery and the degree of dissociative nu…

  • Treating PTSD in South African contexts

    David J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2006

    Several psychological factors contribute to the development and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because they interfere with the emotional processing of the traumatic event. These include problematic and painful emotions such as anxiety, shame, guilt and grief, distorted or dysfunctional cognitions, and cognitive, emotional, and behavioural avoidance mechanisms. Analysis of these maintaining factors provides the basis for curr…

  • Critical perspectives on research on post-traumatic stress disorder and implications for the South African context

    David J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2006

    This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Psychology in Africa on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Africa and particularly in South Africa and examines the critical debate that has surrounded PTSD research. It begins with an examination of the meaning of the term trauma, and of its specialised use within the clinical context and with respect to the concept of PTSD. The diagnostic approach to the detection of PTSD is presen…

  • The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland

    Open AccessUte Lotz-Heumann, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin et al.BOOKOrigins of Sectarianism in Early…2005

    Ireland is riven by sectarian hatred. This simple assumption provides a powerful explanation for the bitterness and violence which has so dominated Irish history. Most notably, the troubles in Northern Ireland have provided fertile ground for scholars from all disciplines to argue about and explore ways in which religious division fueled the descent into hostility and disorder. In much of this literature, however, sectarianism is seen as, somehow…

  • The experiences and needs of HIV/Aids counsellors at a South African hospital

    David J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2005

    To increase the availability of HIV/AIDS counselling in South Africa, nurses have been trained to serve as counsellors within hospital services. The aim of the study was to document the experiences and needs of nurse HIV/AIDS counsellors at a small South African hospital (with 279 beds and 10 medical doctors on the staff). The design was a qualitative, multiple-case study. The sample consisted of four nurse counsellors and the co-ordinator of HIV…

  • Bulimic Pathology in Black Students in South Africa

    Open AccessDavid J A Edwards, David Edwards et al.ARTICLESouth African Journal of Psychology2004Citada por: 1Referências: 19

    A high frequency of behaviours and attitudes associated with bulimia nervosa among black respondents, including males, has recently been reported in South Africa. The aims of the present study were to replicate these findings using a sampling procedure which would yield few refusals or dropouts, and to interview black males with bulimic symptoms to gain an understanding of their behaviour and motivation. In total, 40 black females, 39 black males…