Ms Anne Kramers-Olen

Ms Anne Kramers-Olen

BIOSKETCH
Anne Kramers-Olen is a Principal Clinical Psychologist at Fort Napier Hospital and honorary lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She is an Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Psychology. She has served on the Executive of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), and is chairperson of the Psychology in Public Service Division of PsySSA. She has published papers in the area of ethics, forensics, intellectual disability and psychosocial rehabilitation.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Forensic Mental Health;
  • Ethics;
  • Psychosocial Rehabilitation;
  • Professional Psychology Training
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
  1. Bouchard, J.P., Pretorius, T.B., Kramers-Olen, A.L., Padmanabhanunni, A & Stiegler, N. (2022). Global Warming and Psychotraumatology of Natural Disasters: The Case of the Deadly Rains and Floods of April 2022 in South Africa. Ann Med Psychol, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2022.07.004
  2. Pillay, A.L. & Kramers-Olen, A.L. (2021). COVID-19, psychosocial issues, politics, and public mental health care. South African Journal of Psychology, 51(2), 293 -303. https://doi.org/10.1177/00812463211015750
  3. Kleintjes, Sharon & den Hollander, Daniel & Pillay, Suntosh & Kramers-Olen, Anne. (2020). Strengthening the National Health Insurance Bill for mental health needs: response from the Psychological Society of South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology. 51. 008124632095431. 10.1177/0081246320954317.
  4. Kramers-Olen, Anne. (2019). The defence of sane automatism and non-pathological criminal incapacity in South Africa: an epistemological intersection between psychology and law. South African Journal of Psychology. 49. 008124631984322. 10.1177/0081246319843228.
  5. Kramers-Olen, A.L. (2017). Quantitative assessment of sexual knowledge and consent capacity in people with Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disability. South African Journal of Psychology, 47 (3), 367-378
  6. Kramers-Olen, A.L. (2016). Sexuality, intellectual disability, and human rights legislation. South African Journal of Psychology, 46(4) 504– 516
  7. Kramers-Olen, A.L. (2015).Neuroscience, moral development, criminal capacity and the Child Justice Act: justice or injustice? South African Journal of Psycholog,45 (4), 466-479.
  8. Pillay, A.L. & Kramers-Olen, A.L. (2014). The changing face of clinical psychology intern training: a 30-year analysis of a programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, 44, 364-374.
  9. Pillay, A.L. & Kramers-Olen, A.L. (2013). Psychosocial rehabilitation in a chronic care hospital in South Africa: Views of clinical staff. African Journal of Psychiatry, 16, 277-282.