Department of Psychology

Ms BM Semenya

College of Human Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Department: Psychology
Lecturer
Tel: 012 429 8093
Fax: 012 429 3414
E-mail: semenbm@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • MA Clinical Psychology (UP, 2002)

Fields of academic interests

  • Clinical psychology
  • Psychotherapy training
  • Sexuality and reproductive health; gender
  • Indigenous Knowledge systems; African epistemology

Field of Specialisation

  • Clinical Psychology

Books

  • List 1: Semenya, BM. (2008). Review article – Black bull ancestors and me: My Life as a lesbian Sangoma. In I Dubbel & A Heilkema (eds.). Urgency required, p. 118 – 121. Netherlands: Hivos.
  • List 2: Semenya, BM & Mokoena, M. (2012). African cosmology, psychology and community. In M Visser & A Moleko (Eds.), Community psychology in South Africa, pp. 71 – 83. Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers.
  • List 3: Semenya, BM (in press). Trait personality and Psychology. In Nicolas, L, Introduction to personality psychology: A South African perspective. Oxford University press

Journal articles

List 1: Semenya, BM. (2010). Review article – Black Bull ancestors and me: My life as a lesbian Sangoma. New voices in Psychology, p. 56 - 60

List 2: Fourie, E., Hagen, S., Mitchell, Y. & Semenya, B. (2012) (Eds.). Re-imagining psychology: Proceedings of the 2009 Southern African Student’s Psychology Conference. ISBN: 978-0-620-50471-3

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Registered with HPCSA as Clinical psychologist
  • SANPAD Scholarship programme (2009/2010 cohort)
  • Excellence in Tuition award (2012)
  • Executive member of the Scientific Planning Committee for the Sexuality and reproductive Health Division of the 2012 30th International Congress of Psychology (ICP) hosted in Cape Town, 2012. (from 2010 - 2012)