Part Time Lecturer in Psychology
BA(Hons), MA(Clin Psych), DPhil (University of Pretoria)
A renowned South African psychologist, Prof Rex van Vuuren is currently our acting Academic Dean as well as part-time lecturer in Psychology.
In 1999 Prof van Vuuren left the University of Pretoria after 26 years in the department of psychology to take up the position of Academic Dean at St Augustine College. He remained the Dean until 2013. Prof van Vuuren is registered as both a clinical psychologist and a research psychologist.
After retiring from all the responsibilities as Academic Dean and the management team of the College at the end of 2013 he continues participating in a range of academic and professional activities. At St Augustine he has been teaching on both postgraduate and undergraduate levels as a part-time lecturer. In April 2019, he has bacome an acting Academic Dean of the College.
As a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist his interests are in the area of personality psychology, psychotherapy, qualitative research methods and multidisciplinary dialogues between architecture and psychology, education and psychology, philosophy and psychology and theology and psychology. His interests are grounded in a existential-phenomenology and hermeneutic approaches.
He supervises masters and doctoral candidates and, in the light of the above interests, teaches new topics at the interface between disciplines such as psychology and spirituality; psychology and family and gender ethics and educational leadership and spirituality.
PROF REX VAN VUUREN
BA(Hons), MA(Clin Psych), DPhil (University of Pretoria)