by Joanna Kleovoulou | Children |
What are your Child’s Rights What are your child’s rights in South Africa, your Children’s Rights are those rights found in Section 28 in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of South Africa and they form the basis for the best interest of the child in all...
by Sandra Martins | Uncategorized |
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by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Joanna Kleovoulou, PsychMatters Centre Founder l Clinical Psychologist l Writer M.A. Clinical Psychology (Wits) l B.A Honours Psychology (UJ) l B.A. Honours Business Management (UFS) l B.A Communications (UFS) Contributor of Improving Mental Health in the...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Joanna Kleovoulou l Clinical Psychologist l Founder PsychMatters Centre How shedding the load on loadshedding can build resilience as we’ve entered a new year thankfully unmasked and less sanitised here in South Africa, what has your life unmasked and revealed?...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Media |
Witnessing A Loved One Suffer From A Mental Illness Can Be Debilitating. Fortunately, There Are Ways To Help, Writes Janice Phiri TIME TO HEAL Make therapy a family affair with these easy steps to ensure a tighter family bond. In South Africa, mental health...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Children |
Helping heal a child’s broken heart, being human means that you will experience sorrow and grief at some point in your life. No one can escape this cycle and fact of life. This reality does not take away the pain and suffering it manifests. The opposite of loss is...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Joanna Kleovoulou, Clinical Psychologist & Founder of PsychMatters® Welcome friends to Fabulous February – not because it is a short month and you wishing for the holidays to arrive already! Rather because there is something fresh and alive that...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
Written by anonymous teen, learner at St. Benedicts College, Bedfordview, Johannesburg With the exams coming to an end, many teens (and their parents) are relieved and look forward to a much need break before the business of the new year. But for many others, as much...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Joanna Kleovoulou, clinical psychologist and founder So many of my adult patients loosely refer to their ex-partner, boss or family member as being “a real narcissist!… It makes me so angry when he is patronising!” we all know of someone that winds us up the...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Joanna Kleovoulou, Clinical Psychologist & Founder In light of what is happening currently in our country, with an uproar at the violation of our constitution by our president, I have this to contribute about my thoughts on responsibility – or the lack thereof...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Workshops |
4 Hours long, starting at 9AM The objectives of the workshop will be To raise awareness of the range of skills involved in studying To help students identify which learning style suits them best To reflect and evaluate methods that they currently utilizing To help...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
Empathy is the ability to put yourselves in somebody else’s shoes; to see the situation through their eyes; to understand their feelings given the situation they are in. What does this really mean in everyday life? Why is it important to practice this? How does it...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Sarit Swisa, Clinical Psychologist I’m not sure about you, but many people start off they year feeling quite stressed. They’re bankrupt from the festive season, overwhelmed by how much there is to plan and organise for the coming months and worry just creeps in in...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Podcasts |
Download the SAFM The Talk Shop radio broadcast from 2 February 2016 done by Joanna Kleovoulou...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Clinical Psychologist, Sarit Swisa This is a question that I think inevitably many people are faced with at one time or another during their lives. The fear that change simply isn’t possible could arise for example, for that person who has been ‘planning’ to lose...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters, Parenting |
By Joanna Kleovoulou, Clinical Psychologist & founder of PsychMatters™ In the late 1960’s a Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel performed “The Marshmallow Experiment” on pre-schoolers to demonstrate the importance of delayed gratification. These children...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
By Sarit Swisa – Clinical Psychologist One of the key outcomes of a successful relationship intervention is increased empathy. Empathy is defined as the ability to share or understand the feelings of another. Of course, this is only successful where followed by...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
As psychologists we see so many parents who lament, “He just doesn’t listen”, or “I‘ve tried everything; timeout, taking away things, even hitting her and she doesn’t care, nothing changes.” “He goes berserk over the littlest thing, like I’m trying to kill him.” Being...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Newsletters |
As caretakers we tend to view the world of our children as fun-filled and carefree, as they don’t have debts to worry about, school fees to pay, a demanding boss, or difficult in-laws to contend with! The truth is that children today do feel stress and many are...
by Joanna Kleovoulou | Workshops |
CONFIDENT KIDS WORKSHOP: BUILDING AN “I CAN” ATTITUDE AGES 8-13 DOES your CHILD? Avoid trying new things Think negatively Worry Wobble when frustrated Give up easily Get easily disappointed Have self-doubt Lose his/her temper easily Compare self to other Feel...
