Divorce Child: Discipline & Alternatives to Corporal Punishment

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Lizette Labuschagne

Socialworker at Minke Saayman Practice

Lizette Labuschagne is a registered social worker with the South African Council for Social Service Professions (10-24653) working in private practice...

Theresa Luyt

Vice Chairman SJAM/ Mediator/ Restorative Justice Practitioner at Mediation Network

Mediator specialising in Family ConflictsRestorative Justice PractitionerDivorce & Parenting CoachSocial Justice Association of Mediators (SJAM)Vice-C...

Minke Saayman is the owner of the Minke Saayman Child and Family Centre. She is also a mother of two children.

Minke Saayman is a Clinical Social Worker in private practice since 2009. She obtained her BA(SW) at Potchefstroom University in 1996 and then in 2010 her Masters Degree, MA (Soc Sc) Clinical – (Cum Laude), at the University of Johannesburg.

Her vast experience includes social work at Child Welfare in Potchefstroom, after which she relocated to Johannesburg and joined the teams at various Abraham Kriel Maria Kloppers Children’s Home campuses as social worker and later as campus manager, before starting private practice in 2009. During this time, she was also involved in working with children and foster parents at uMephi Cluster Foster Homes. In 2017 she opened the Minke Saayman Child and Family Centre in Northcliff.

Mrs Saayman has vast experience in socio-emotional assessment and -therapy with children, adults and families. She is also involved in lecturing, supervision and internship training of social work students at the University of Johannesburg and also presents training for Master Students at the University of Johannesburg.

She is passionate about working with children and families and to heal the effects of childhood trauma as well as to assist with the healing of other mental health concerns. The framework from which she works includes child-centered play therapy, attachment therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, solution focused therapy, parental skills training and more recently tele-play therapy.
Minke presents workshops and training to other professionals, teachers and parents.

Lizette Labuschagne is a registered social worker with the South African Council for Social Service Professions (10-24653) working in private practice with seventeen (17) years experience in the field of family and childcare.

She obtained her BA (Psychology) degree in 2005 at the University of Johannesburg. During 2005 she also completed her Honors degree in Social Work at the University of Johannesburg. In 2009 she obtained a Masters degree, MA (Clinical Social Work), at the University of Johannesburg.

In 2013 Lizette Labuschagne successfully completed a second Masters degree in Social Work Forensic Practice (Cum laude) at the North-West University (Potchefstroom campus).

In March 2023 Lizette Labuschagne submitted the
final thesis for the completion of her PhD in Social Work, the focus of her research being on forensic practice.

Lizette Labuschagne worked as a private social worker since 2009 in her private practice focusing on the evaluation of
and therapy with children and families. Lizette recently emigrated to Mauritius, but continues to be actively involved in the Social Work field by providing professional consultations and support as well as online training.

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