Johan Louw

2024

• An analysis of the application of the best interest of the child standard in relation to psychology.
• Associations Between Mother-Adolescent and Father-Adolescent Relationships and Young Adult Health.
• Combining the Maree Career Matrix and the Career Interest Profile in Career Counselling.
• Deliberately Retrieved Negative Memories Can Improve Mood Beyond the Intention to Do So.
• Detecting counselling clues clients keep quiet about - using reports schoolwork obeservations and assessments; and translating it into.
• Ethical preparedness in health research and care: the role of behavioural approaches.
• Fatherhood and high-risk pregnancy: a scoping review.
  
• Gender Sensitive Therapy with Children.
• Humor Styles Are Related to Loneliness Across 15 Countries.
• Integrative Review of the Recent Literature on Human Resilience: From Concepts, Theories, and Discussions Towards a Complex Understanding.
• It takes a pirate to know one: ethical hackers for healthcare cybersecurity.
• Managing multiple relationships and dual roles.
• Population heterogeneity in developmental trajectories of internalising and externalising mental health symptoms in childhood.
• Solution focussed suicide prevention strategies.
• South African children's use/viewing of pornography: online behaviour effects legislation support and prevention.
• The importance of awareness, acceptance, and alignment with the self.
• The psychological effects of imprisonment: The role of cognitive, psychopathic and affective traits.

2024 Presentations

• Combining innovation and tradition to advance career guidance in South Africa.
• Preparing adolescents for the challenges of high school in an age where maintaining mental health has become increasingly difficult.

2023

• An Insight into Psychological Research and Practice.
• Disclosure of non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse: What should researchers do?
• Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Help People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
• Mindfulness Current understanding positioning practices and therapeutic applications.
• The Contribution of Attachment Styles and Reassurance Seeking to Trust in Romantic Couples.
• The importance of awareness, acceptance, and alignment with the self.
• The More We Tinder: Subjects, Selves and Society.
• The Psychological Impact of Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation on Offenders.
• The relationship between resilience and student success among a sample of South African engineering students.
• The Soul of Therapy: The Therapist’s Use of Self in the Therapeutic Therapists’ Contributions to the Alliance in Home-Based Family Treatment.

2022

• Cognitive-Behavioral and Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy: Similarities and Differences.
• Design of a Guided Internet-Delivered Counselling Intervention for Test Anxiety.
• Ethical decicion making process. 
• Executive functioning: Neuropsychological perspective and current understanding
• Forum Cognition and the motivation for learning in multilingual learner: Emergent role of psychologists
• What are the Key Characteristics of a ‘Good’ Psychotherapy? Calling for Ethical Patient Involvement.
• Minority report: can minor parents refuse treatment for their child?
• Musical learning and cognitive- behavioural and socio-emotional development in children
• Online Intervention for Couples Affected by Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
• Predictors of Positive and Negative Risk-Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Similarities and Differences.
• Self-Esteem, Social Comparison, and Facebook Use.
  
• The Event-Specific Benefits of Writing About a Difficult Life Experience.The impact of Covid-19 related trauma on the well-being of families and how to mobilise creativity as a tool.
• The Paths to Children’s Disordered Eating.
• The Upsides and Downsides of High Self-Control: Evidence for Effects of Similarity and Situation Dependency.

​2021

• CASEBOOK May 2021 Vol. 29 No. 1 CPD questionnaire
• Encopresis & Enuresis – To what extent is Psychological intervention needed?
• Ethical considerations in the use of animal-assisted interventions in the treatment of trauma in children
• Irlen Syndrome: The Magic, Mystery, and Misconceptions.
• Making a differential diagnosis
• PSSA questionnaire; June 2021 Vol. 4 No. 1, August 2021 Vol. 4 No. 2, October 2021 Vol. 4 No. 3
• Revisiting projective assessment: Cultural and ethical considerations
• Revisiting and conceptualizing the complete psychotherapeutic process with children and adolescents
• SAJCH June 2021 Vol. 15 No. 2 CPD questionnaire

2020

• Busting COVID Myths with Dr. Michael Mol 
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
• Ethical contracting and ‘intake’ interviews
• Ethical Diagnosis
• How to Market and Grow your Healthcare Practice Ethically
• Inward and outward mindset; how it informs behaviour and impacts outcomes
• Intelligence Testing in the South African Context
• Leveraging resilience theory to support clients to beat (or change) the odds
• Regulations of the Popi Act
• The core components of trust and self-trust and its effects on interpersonal and therapeutic relationships.
• The different mechanisms for craving and pleasure within the brain’s reward system and its role in addiction
• Virtual Reality (VR) applications and possibilities

 
2019

• Auditory Processing
• A wise Healer Uses what Works: Best for your client
• Combining innovation and tradition to advance career guidance in South Africa (Presentation made by me)
• Exploring the challenges faced by adolescents
• Health professionals’ duty to ensure the correct ICD-10 coding is being used
• Medications in Childhood
• Personal resilience in a VUCA world
• Trauma Incident Reduction

 
2017 and 2018

• Impact Therapy and Creative Counselling Techniques
• Intensive Training in Medical Hypnoanalysis – Fundamental, Intermediate, and Advanced  - lornageer.co.za/hypnotherapy/
• Optima School Readiness Training
• SIAS Policy Training (GDE - 2017)