Highest Academic Qualification: M.Soc.Sc Counseling Psychology (cum laude); Ph.D; Professional Registration at the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)

Dr Griessel is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a counseling psychologist. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Industrial Psychology at the University of the Free State, where she lectures on psychological assessment and measurement, as well as employee well-being on post-graduate level. Dr Griessel is registered as a Jungian Analyst with the South African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) and the International Association of Jungian Analysts (IAAP). 

Dr Griessel has extensive experience in the application of psychometric assessment in the workplace, which includes the development of selection and validation procedures for organizations and academic programs, selection of personnel, assessment of learning potential and assessment of leadership and management competencies.

She has supervised various Honors and Masters Dissertations in the department of Industrial Psychology.

Dr Griessel coordinated the professional training program in the Department of Industrial Psychology from 1989-2015. In this capacity, she managed the program, conducted training in psychometric tests and supervised post-graduate students in their training as psychometrists (independent practice).

She has lectured in various programs (MBA, BOP, MDP, MPP, BML, BML online) at the Business School at the University of the Free State, where she was responsible for training in various areas of self-development.

Dr Griessel has completed her doctoral research on the psycho dynamics of career-oriented women from a Jungian perspective.

PUBLICATIONS

2008                 Kotze, M. & Griessel, L. (2008). An Exploration of the Formation and Development of the White Afrikaner Cultural Identity in South Africa using Hill’s Post-Jungian Model of the Self. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary                                  Social Sciences, 3(2), 77-86 

        Kotze, M. & Griessel, L. (2008). Influence of the Patrivalent Nature of the White    Afrikaner Culture on the Psychological Development of White Afrikaner Women in  

       South Africa. The International Journal of the Humanities, (7) 

       Kotze, M. & Griessel, L. (2008). The Prediction of the Academic Performance of MBA Students by Means of Specific Aptitudes and Competencies. Journal for         New Generation Sciences, 6(2)                       

       Kotze, M. & Griessel, L. (2008). Predicting the Academic Performance of MBA     Students: A South African Study The International Journal of the

       Humanities, 6(1), 147-156 

2009              Griessel, L & Kotze, M. (2009).The Feminine and the Masculine in the Development of the Self in Women-A Post- Jungian Perspective. Women`s  Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 38(2), 183-212 

2010              Griessel, L & Kotze, M. (2010).The Cultural Identity of white Afrikaner women: A Post-Jungian perspective. Acta Academica,  42(2),  63-87 

2011              Griessel, L. (2012). A Post-Jungian Understanding of the Counter-Dependent  Puella Aeterna   (Eternal Girl) as Psychological Pattern in Women. The  International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, (6) 

2012               Kotze, M & Griessel, L. (2012). A  Post-Jungian Perspective on the Psychological Development of the White Afrikaner Cultural Identity in South Africa. Koers,77(2), 36-45

OTHER

2008              Associate editor for the 2008 volume of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

2011              Associate editor for the 2011 volume of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

2001              Co-contributor: Introduction to Psychological Assessment. Cape Town: Oxford University Press

2005              Co-contributor: Introduction to Psychological Assessment. Cape Town: Oxford University Press (2^nd edition) 

2009              Co-contributor: Introduction to Psychological Assessment. Cape Town: Oxford University Press (3^nd edition)

2013              Co-contributor: Introduction to Psychological Assessment. Cape Town: Oxford University Press (4^th edition)

2018               Co-contributor: Introduction to Psychological Assessment. Cape Town: Oxford University Press (5^th edition)