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Associate Professor & Counselling Psychologist

Coordinator of the Professional Training in Counselling Psychology

MA Counselling Psychology, PhD (Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)

Registered Counselling Psychologist (HPCSA No: PS 0110892)

E-mail: m.campbell@ru.ac.za

Phone: +27(0)46 603 7382

Psychology Clinic 

Profile

Having started my career as a Psychometrist, I completed my professional training as a Counselling Psychologist in 2009. I completed my PhD in field of psychological assessment, engaging with debates on universal applications of psychiatric nosology, the role of idioms of distress and explanatory illness models in symptom presentation and treatment, and the value of the cultural formulation. During this time I was a visiting scholar at the Universities of Tilburg and Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

In 2013 I joined the UCT Psychiatry Department as a research fellow. Funded by WHO, I co-ordinated South African field studies evaluating the clinical utility of proposed ICD-11 revisions to diagnostic criteria for sexuality-related conditions. I joined the Genomics of Schizophrenia in South African Xhosa people (SAX) study, funded by the US NIMH where I led work on the ethics of psychiatric genomics and culturally specific explanatory illness models pertaining to schizophrenia and its related symptoms. I was also a collaborator on a UK Wellcome Trust project that explored the contribution African philosophy and knowledge could make in the field of global mental health.

In 2020 I moved to the Rhodes Psychology Department where I have growing a body of relational predictors of intimate partner violence.
Over the years I’ve continued to grow my psychotherapy practice with
a focus on relational psychotherapy, Imago Therapy and Emotionally Focused Psychotherapy (EFT).
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Current teaching Areas

• Psychometrics and assessment
• Couples therapy
• Crisis intervention

Research Interests

I am interested in identifying relational predictors of IPV and developing locally responsive interventions to address violence in intimate partner relationships. 
 
Grants and Awards
Grants
2021    Primary Investigator: South Africa-Ethiopia collaboration: Counselling
psychology and couple therapy. PI: Megan Campbell: (NIHSS) Mobility Award
(BMG21/1008) 
2019    Collaborator: Re-examining the global in Global Mental Health: African
understandings of mental disorder and intellectual disability. PI: Camillia Kong:
Wellcome Trust  
2015    Co-investigator: Stigma in genomics research on schizophrenia and
rheumatic heart disease. PI: Jantina De Vires: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Stigma and Ethics Grant (Grant number: 1U01HG008226-01)
2013    Co-investigator: Gender:Incongruence of Adolescence and Adulthood: field
studies of clinical utility in a South African context. World Health Organisation
 
Awards
2023 Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Community Engagement
Award
2014     Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration award - NRF
2014     URC 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Cape Town Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2012     South African-UV 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 Amsterdam-Strategic Alliance
2011     South African Netherlands Research Programme on Alternative
Development
2010 Andrew Mellon Citizens Scholarship
 
Invited speaker

• Global Mental Health Programme - Columbia 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, Manhattan,
  New York, December 2016: Topic: Traditional healers and global
  mental health
• Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine Conference – Cape Town,
  South Africa, April 2016: Topic: Building relationships through
  community engagement
• H3Africa Community Engagement workshop – Stellenbosch, Wester
  Cape, South Africa, March 2016: Topic: Evaluation strategies for
  Community engagement on Stigma in African Genomics study
• H3Africa Community Engagement workshop – Livingston, Zambia, May
  2015: Topic: Community engagement on the SAX study

 
Working Groups

• African Ethics Working Group on Neuropsychiatric
  Genomicsfunded by Oxford 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, 2016-2018
• H3Africa Ethics, Regulatory Issues and Community Engagement
  Working Groupfunded by the US NIH, 2013-2018

 
Selected Publications

Teaching and Learning

Campbell, M.M. (2025). Grappling with Tranformation through Curriculum Development. In Laura Dison, Jo-Anne Vorster & Kibashini Naidoo (Ed) Tranforming Teaching in Higher Education: Professional Development through the PGDip Journey.

Jarsso, A. W., Fouten, E. S., & Campbell, M. M. (2025). Building the profession of psychological counselling in Ethiopia—achievements, challenges, and future directions. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 35(2), 277.

Psychological Health and Distress

Shabalala, S., & Campbell, M.M. (2025).The High Price of Gender Noncompliance: Exploring the Economic Marginality of Trans Women in South Africa. Journal of Social Inclusion, 13.

Shabalala, S., & Campbell, M.M. (2024). Unpacking Epistemic Genderism: An Investigation on Trans Women’s Encounters with the Gender Binary within South African Knowledge Systems. Journal of Research in Gender Studies, 14(1).

Shabalala, S., & Campbell, M.M. (2023). The Complexities of Trans Women’s Access to Healthcare in South Africa: Moving Health Systems Beyond the Gender Binary Towards Equity. International Journal of Equity in Health, 22(231).

Kong, C., Campbell, M., Kpobi, L., Swartz, L., & Atuire, C. (2021). The hermeneutics of recovery: facilitating dialogue between African and Western mental health frameworks. Transcultural Psychiatry.

Temmingh, H., Susser, E., Mall, S., Campbell, M., Sibeko, G., & Stein, D. J. (2021). Prevalence and clinical correlates of substance use disorders in South African Xhosa patients with schizophrenia. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(4), 695-706.

Assessment and Tool Translation for cross-cultural use

Matshabane, O. P., Faure, M. C., Appelbaum, P. S., Marshall, P. A., Stein, D. J., de Vries, J., & Campbell, M. M. (2023). Lessons learned from the translation of the Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) scale into isiXhosa for use with South African Xhosa people with schizophrenia. Transcultural Psychiatry, 

Brohan, E., Thornicroft, G., Rüsch, N., Lasalvia, A., Campbell, M. M., Yalç?nkaya-Alkar, Ö., ... & Evans-Lacko, S. (2022). Measuring discrimination experienced by people with a mental illness: replication of the short-form DISCUS in six world regions. Psychological Medicine, 1-11.

Scott, J. C., Moore, T. M., Stein, D. J., Pretorius, A., Zingela, Z., Nagdee, M., Campbell, M ... & Gur, R. C. (2021). Adaptation and validation of a computerized neurocognitive battery in the Xhosa of South Africa. Neuropsychology, 35(6), 581.

Community Engagement, Ethics and Mental Health Stigma

Campbell, M.M., Matshabane, O., Mqulwane, S., Mndini, M., Nagdee, M., Stein, D., & de Vries, J. (2021). Evaluating community engagement strategies to manage stigma in two African genomics studies involving people living with schizophrenia or Rheumatic Heart Disease, Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics.

Matshabane, O. P., Campbell, M. M., Faure, M. C., Appelbaum, P. S., Marshall, P. A., Stein, D. J., & de Vries, J. (2021). The role of causal knowledge in stigma considerations in African genomics research: Views of South African Xhosa people. Social Science & Medicine, 277, 113902.

Matshabane, O. P., Campbell, M. M., Faure, M. C., Marshall, P. A., Mayosi, B. M., Stein, D. J., ... & de Vries, J. (2021). Exploring how a genetic attribution to disease relates to stigma experiences of Xhosa patients with schizophrenia in South Africa. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 55, 1679-1686.

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