Dr Elmarie Kotzé

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications: D Litt et Phil

Contact Details

Papers Taught

Research Supervised

Doctoral Supervision

• Morris, Brian (2015). Heterosexual couples, gender discourses, and the production of relational subjectivity.
• McMenamin, Donald (2014). New stories of identity: Alternatives to suspension and exclusion from school.
• Esler, Ireni (2011). Narratives in translation:  Going beyond theoretical difference in supervision.
• Gibson, Alister (2011). Spirituality in principal leadership and its influence on teachers and teaching.
• Talbot, Wendy (2011). Relationship practices in a diverse and changing society.
• Yusoff, Yusmini Md. (2011). Counselling and religious and spiritual values:  A Malaysian study.
• Crocket, Alastair (2010). Pakeha counsellors consider their positioning. A postcolonial praxis.

• Depree, Jim (in progress). Taping for therapeutic purposes in couples’ therapy.
• Snowdon, Jenny (in progress). “But I still love him”: Young women talk about love and violence.
• Graham, Judith (in progress). Secondary teachers foster the development of Key Competencies in incidental and unplanned moments.
• Ling, Sai Ang (in progress). Counselling clients with suicide ideation in Malaysia.

M Couns Theses

• Moneypenny, Paula (2013). A post-structural auto-ethnography: Storying self as event.
• Scott, Paula (2010). Positioning and re-positioning of individual and family relationships with anorexia/bulimia: An auto-ethnographical informed study.
• Sliedrecht, Susan (2007). Counselling patients with a spinal cord injury.

MTh

• Geldenhuys, T. (2004). Pastoral care and counselling as resistance to secondary traumatisation and power abuse in a faith based welfare organisation.
• Brink, A.M. (2003). “Lighting his way home”: Reflecting on pastoral conversations with a missing child’s mother.
• Martin, J.H.I. (2003). Carrying the torch of hope: Survivors’ narratives of trauma and spirituality.
• Millar, C.S. (2003). Wellness, pastoral care and women with new babies.
• Nel, M. (2003). Re-pastoring in a Dutch Reformed congregation: new meaning to old narratives.
• Schoeman. H.J. (2003). Restorative witnessing: A contextual and feminist praxis of healing.
• Stapelberg, L. (2003). Pastoral care and counselling as a reciprocal gift between counsellor and counselees.
• Tong, F. (2003). Pastoral narratives of bereavement care with men.
• van de Laar, D.J. (2003). Insiders or outsiders? Pastoral care with Christian gay women in a Methodist congregation.
• Claassen, L. (2002). Deconstructing “Coupledom” with young people.
• de Beer, W. (2002). Resisting violence, abuse and suffering: Creating communities of care with children.
• du Plessis, M. C. (2002). A deconstructing of depression and its power in people’s lives.
• Hulme, T. (2002). Transforming a school community: facilitators living values.
• Marais, J.F. (2002). Participatory action research and pastoral playful care with children: Challenging bullying.
• Morkel, E. (2002). When narratives create community: Standing with children against stealing.
• Nieuwmeyer, S.M. (2002). Women storying HIV/AIDS in community.
• Scrimgeour, E. (2002). Honouring sacred spaces: Voicing stories of terminal illness.
• Swanepoel, A, (2002). Making visible the elderly.
• van Duuren, L. A. (2002). Children’s voices on bereavement and loss.
• Wilkinson, K. L. (2002). Stories of survival in the wake of violence and abuse on the Cape flats.
• Basson, N.C. (2001). Narrative pastoral practice at a primary school.
• de Jager, E.  (2001). Facilitators and learners:  Co-creating a better understanding of one another.
• Grobbelaar, M.S. (2001).  Stories of mothers with differently abled children.
• Gunter, R. (2001).  A journey to healing:  Conversations of women survivors of sexual abuse.
• Harrington, M. (2001).  The stories women tell.  Living with cancer and care.
• Janse van Vuuren, C.J.L. (2001).  Narratives of abortion:  A pastoral approach.
• Niehaus, E. (2001).  Narratives of relationships/marriages.
• Skidmore, S.A.  (2001). Re-authoring narratives in a divorce recovery ministry.
• Steyn, L.  (2001).  Empowering young people through narrative.
• Strydom, M.  (2001). The church and caregivers of aids orphans.
• Gillomee, Y. (2000). Teenagers interviewing problems.
• Meiring, L. (2000). Renouncing racism in a Dutch Reformed congregation.
• Van Dyk, A. (2000). Voices of women and children who have experienced abuse.
• Viljoen, H. J. (2000). Deconstructing trauma and racism at a police station.

MCouns Dissertations

• Kulasingham, A. (2013). Re-authoring family relationships: An auto-ethnographic study on dialogical conversation and repositioning.
• Scott, B. (2012). Writing as embodiment: Examining the effects of writing and witnessing on growing kindness/compassion in relationship with women’s bodies.
• Wasson, K. (2011). Drug and alcohol programmes offering secondary prevention intervention to “in-risk” adolescents within secondary schools.
• Marsden, V. (2008). Lesbian reflections on past counselling experiences.
• Snowdon, J. (2007). Mothering at the edge: Conversations with non-resident mothers.
• King, C. (2005). Places between and in two worlds. The construction of identity with a cochlear implant.

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