Charl Hattingh

Experience

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  Charl Hattingh

  Jan 1989 - Dec 1999

  Freelance Editor, Translator, and Journalist

  • Provided layout, writing, translation, editing, and proofreading services in Afrikaans and English on contract.• Clients included magazine publishers (New Media Publishing), fiction and non-fiction book publishers (Juta, Oxford University Press and Tafelberg), three daily print newspapers (Die Burger, Afrikaans for “The Citizen”, and English dailies Cape Argus and Cape Times), an extensive health website (health24.com), and Afrikaans and English daily web editions of Die Burger.

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  Die Burger (Media24)

  Jan 1989 - Dec 1993

  Journalist and Newspaper Sub-editor

  • Revised the edited copy for the news section of a major Afrikaans daily newspaper and provided training to sub-editors.• Other responsibilities included reporting, translation, layout, theater and cinema reviews, computer graphics creation and photo-processing.

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  University of Cape Town, Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital

  Jan 1995 - Dec 1996

  • Conducted diagnostic evaluations, and individual and group psychotherapy in psychiatric inpatient admission and rehabilitation facilities, an inpatient therapeutic milieu for eating disorders, an outpatient hospital HIV clinic and an outpatient community mental health center with adolescent and adult patients presenting with acute and chronic mild to severe mental health disorders: mood, psychosis, anxiety, adjustment, personality, eating, and learning disabilities.• Administered structured and semi-structured standardized diagnostic and severity scales including the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), South African Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales (SA-WAIS), Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory – III (MCMI-III), Trail-making Test, Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure (ROCF), and Wechsler Memory Scale – Third Edition (WMS-III).• Provided supervisory support to managerial community workers in protected workshops for adults with learning disabilities. Show less • Conducted diagnostic evaluations, and individual and group psychotherapy in an outpatient clinic with children, adolescents, and adults presenting with acute and chronic mild to moderate mental health disorders: Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Adjustment Disorder, and Learning Disabilities• Administered structured and semi-structured standardized diagnostic and severity scales including (but not limited to) the Griffiths Mental Development Scales, Junior South African Individual Scales (JSAIS), Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Person Test (DAP), Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD), Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children – Revised (WISC-R), Senior South African Individual Scales – Revised (SSAIS-R), Wechsler Pre-school and Primary Scales of Intelligence (WPPSI), Child Thematic Apperception Test (CAT), Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test (FRT), Beery Test for Visuo-Motor Integration, and Bender-Gestalt Test • Provided supervisory support to child care workers in a children’s home Show less

  • Intern Clinical Psychologist

    Jan 1996 - Dec 1996

  • Intern Clinical Psychologist

    Jan 1995 - Dec 1995
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  Asterisks

  Jan 1996 - Jun 2001

  Translation Agency Managing Editor (Owner)

  • Founded and managed online editing and translation agency, and provided web design, editing and translation services for global clients• Sold the business in 2001 to free up time for career in clinical psychology.

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  Charlhattingh.com

  Jan 1999 - now

  Health Sciences Linguist (Owner)

  • Provide linguistic, consultancy and project management services to international linguistics agencies for development of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) material used in clinical trials.• Scope includes project budgeting, linguist recruitment, coordination of forward and backward translation, recruitment and cognitive debriefing of patients, cognitive debriefing review, implementation of clinician and author review, and final editing and translation decisions.• Provide editing, cross-cultural adaptation, localization and translation of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) material, informed consent and other clinical trial documentation, psychometric rating scales, and patient medical records in Afrikaans, British English, American English, and South African English.• Fully bilingual native speaker of South African English and Afrikaans, translating both directions between Afrikaans and English.• Skills and experience as Clinical Psychologist inform linguistic work with psychometric instruments and PRO material.• Subject areas include psychology, psychiatry, medicine, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Show less

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  NHS

  May 2000 - Jan 2003

  Chartered Clinical Psychologist in Psychosexual Health

  • Conducted diagnostic evaluations, individual, couples and group psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy, and sex therapy in an inpatient psychiatric hospital unit, outpatient community mental health settings (including adherence support program for HIV-positive patients), outpatient psychological therapy service, and primary care medical practice with adult and older adult patients presenting with acute and chronic mild to severe mental health disorders: mood, anxiety, substance use, dementia, eating, sexual and gender identity, adjustment, and personality.• Administered structured and semi-structured standardized diagnostic and severity scales including the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Third Edition (WAIS-III), Wechsler Memory Scale – Third Edition (WMS-III), National Adult Reading Test (NART), Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test (RBMT), Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure (ROCF), Trail-making Test, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). • Registered during this period as Chartered Clinical Psychologist with British Psychological Society.• Research was conducted on the efficacy of a community-based intervention for supporting adherence to highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). This involved significant cross-cultural work with expatriate communities. Show less

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  Individual Private Practice # 0120502

  Aug 2003 - now

  Clinical Psychologist (Owner)

  • Conduct diagnostic psychological and psychosexual evaluations, individual and couples psychotherapy, and sex therapy in an outpatient private practice (including remote sessions via Skype) and an outpatient community mental health center with adolescent, adult, and older adult patients presenting with acute and chronic mild to severe mental health disorders: mood, anxiety, substance use, sexual and gender identity, adjustment, and personality.• Provide clinical supervision of psychosexual therapy to clinical psychologists in outpatient private practice.• Provided diagnostic evaluations and chatroom group counseling to university student health service for HIV-positive adolescent/adult patients presenting with acute mild to moderate mental health disorders: mood, anxiety, sexual and gender identity, substance use, adjustment, and personality.• Treatment modalities include psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based intervention, and sex therapy protocols combining cognitive-behavioral homework assignments with a psychodynamic understanding of couple relationships.• Provide clinical review of translated/localized/culturally adapted patient-reported outcomes (PRO) measures related to mental health.• Registered as Clinical Psychologist with Health Professions Council of South Africa, registration number PS 0061697.• Member of Southern African Sexual Health Association. Show less

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  MedAvante

  Jun 2013 - Nov 2014

  Clinician

  • Evaluated a wide range of patients using various symptom rating scales, including the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), Clinical Global Impressions Scale (CGI) and SCID Screening Questions (SSQ).• Conducted interviews remotely via videoconference or telephone.