Ms Martha Van Straaten
Position
Officer 4/8
Department
Social Work
Address
School of Clinical Medicine
IB G1
UFS
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Short CV
Publications

Publications (Short List)

  • Social work mental health and psychosocial support to vulnerable groups during COVID-19 in Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State, South Africa. Martha van Straaten, Christo Heunis, Alice Ncube & Joerg Szarzynski. Published in Social work in the 21st century: Scholarship and praxis reimagined towards vulnerability, in Knowledge Pathing: Multi-, Inter- and Trans-Disciplining in Social Sciences Series, vol. 3, AVARSITY Books, Cape Town, pp. 47–59. https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2024.BK473.03

  • Social worker role-taking during communicable disease outbreaks in South Africa. Christo Heunis, Martha Joubert &Alice Ncube. In:Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education. London: Routledge, pp.152-164.

  • Improvement of the quality of Social Work report writing. Dr. Annelie Böning and Mariëtte Joubert. Published in Creation of Society, March 2021. ISBN 9798709765009

  • ‘n Proses evaluering van ‘n verkeersoortrederswerksopdrag. Mariëtte Joubert and Carel van Wyk. Published in LitNet Academic (12-3), December 2015. ISSN 1995-5928

  • Social Work forensic reports in South African criminal courts: inevitability in the quest for justice - Mariëtte Joubert and Carel van Wyk. Published in SOCIAL WORK/MAATSKAPLIKE WERK (50-4) October 2014.

  • Die voorkoms, frekwensie en aard van seksuele misbruik deur jong vroulike seksoortreders in ’n inwoonsorgsentrum – Mariëtte Joubert, Marisa Pietersen and Carel van Wyk. Published in LitNet December 2012.

Research

Current project for Doctor of Philosophy degree focus on "Developing disaster social work guidelines to bridge policy-practice gaps based on the COVID-19 response in Mangaung Metropolitan, South Africa

Area(s) of Interest

Forensic social work, working with offenders and play therapy.

Disaster management and mental health

Courses Presented

DIMP5280

DIMH7910

Community Service

Free State Care in Action working committee for professional services

ENGO Our Child and Youth Care Centre working committee for professional services

Probono social work


FACULTY CONTACT

T: +27 51 401 2240 or humanities@ufs.ac.za

Postgraduate:
Marizanne Cloete: +27 51 401 2592

Undergraduate:
Neliswa Emeni-Tientcheu: +27 51 401 2536
Phyllis Masilo: +27 51 401 9683

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