Mx Ronald Addinall
Degrees:BA in Social Work (Stell); BSocSc (Honours) in Clinical Social Work (UCT); MSocSc in Clinical Social Work (UCT), PhD Candidate
Position Title: Lecturer
Location: Office 5.10, Leslie Social Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT
E-mail: ron.addinall@uct.ac.za
Tel: 021 650 3475
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Consultation Times: By Appointment. E-mail or call to request an appointment. Key Roles in the Department: Convenor of the Clinical Social Work programme, lecturer on the Bachelor of Social Work programme, the Social Development Major track and the MSocSc Specialising in Clinical Social Work programme. Co-ordinator of the marketing portfolio. Research supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Clinical supervision of Masters Specialising in Clinical Social Work internships. Course convenor for SWK2060F Social Work Assessment, SWK2065S Social Work Intervention, SWK5059F Psychodynamic Theory and Assessment, SWK5053F Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Disorders and SWK5011H Clinical Social Work Internship. |
Brief Biography:
Ronald Addinall (He/They), gender nonconforming and queer identified, is a clinical social worker, sexologist and academic at UCT with over 30 years professional practice experience across many fields in social work such as generic social work, the specialist fields of military social work, occupational social work, medical social work, clinical social work, social work supervision & social work management. Now in 2025 he has 15-years’ experience as an academic lecturing in social work, clinical social work and sexology. He has worked in settings such as Ysterplaat Air Force Base, 2 Military Hospital, United Nations & SANDF military health deployments in Burundi and the DRC, Triangle Project (an LGBTQIA NPO) and Genderdynamix (a Transgender Rights NPO). He further specialised as a sexologist and sex therapist, under the 20-year professional mentorship of Prof Clint Gould from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Ron established the first ever sexual health clinic in a military health setting at 2 Military Hospital which he managed for 10 years offering sex therapy, sexual health promotion and sexual health prevention programmes. He developed an Introduction to Human Sexuality Workshop for Healthcare practitioners which he presented for several years throughout South Africa in the public, NPO and private health sector. Ron is a founding member and past board member of the Southern African Sexual Health Association (SASHA) and a founding member and past board member of the Professional Association for Transgender Health South Africa (PATHSA). Ron is internationally and nationally regarded as having expertise in sex therapy and sexual health as well as in the particular areas of Erotology, Transgender and Gender Diverse Gender Affirming Psychosocial Healthcare as well as Diverse Sexualities and Communities. He served on the Transgender Clinic Multi-disciplinary Team of Groote Schuur Hospital. He served on the WHO task team for South Africa for the Clinical Utility research on the ICD-11 diagnostic criteria for Gender Incongruence and Paraphilias. Ron served as a specialist member of the research and writing team, who, under the auspices of the HIV Clinicians Society, published the first ever Gender Affirming Healthcare Guidelines for South Africa in 2021. Since April 2022 he is serving on the Transgender and Gender Diversity committee of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS).
He is a doctoral student working on his thesis titled: The Psychosocial Lived Experiences and Healthcare Needs of Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons in South Africa: A Phenomenological Study. For many years he has volunteered his clinical expertise and served as an ally and advocate, working with Transgender and Gender Diverse adults, adolescents, children, and their families. Linked In Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-addinall-he-him-his-622b261b/
Research Interest Areas:
Sexology & Human Sexuality, Sexual Health and Sexual Disorders, Sexual and Gender Rights, Gender Identity, Transgender and Gender Diverse Psychosocial Healthcare, Mental Health & Psychiatric Disorders, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Couple Therapy. PhD topic: The Psychosocial Experiences and Healthcare Needs of the Transgender and Gender Diverse Minority Group: South Africa
Teaching Areas:
Presently Teaching: SWK2060F: Social Work Assessment: Micro Level Assessment; SWK2065S: Social Work Intervention: Micro Level Intervention; SWK3066S: Introduction to Human Sexuality; SWK5059F: Psychodynamic Assessment & Psychodynamic Formulation; SWK5060S: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Individuals.
Previously Taught: SWK1013F: Systems Theory & Ecological Perspective, Introduction to Substance Abuse (2009 to 2019); SWK4030F: Working with Families; SWK4035S: Substance Abuse Intervention (2011 to 2019) on the BSocSc (Honours) in Clinical Social Work (Substance Abuse) programme; SWK5058 Psychotherapy with Families & Couples (2009 to 2016)
Recent Publications:
Addinall, R. 2022. The Evolution of a Transgender and Gender Diverse Support Group in Cape Town: An Autoethnographic Review. Abstract Publication, pages A174 to A175, (2022) 25th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) and SASHA (South African Sexual Health Association), International Journal of Sexual Health, 34:sup1, 1-331, DOI: 10.1080/19317611.2022.2017618. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2022.2017618
Tomson, A; McLachlan, C; Wattrus, C; Adams, K; Addinall, R; Bothma, R; Jankelowitz, L; Kotze, E; Luvuna, Z; Madlala, N; Matyila, S; Padavatan, A; Pillay, M; Rakumakoe, MD; Tomson-Myburgh, M; Venter, WDF and De Vries, E. 2021. Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Gender Affirming Healthcare Guideline for South Africa – Extended Version: October 2021. A Publication of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society. https://sahivsoc.org/Files/SAHCS%20GAHC%20guidelines-expanded%20version_Oct%202021.pdf
Tomson, A; McLachlan, C; Wattrus, C; Adams, K; Addinall, R; Bothma, R; Jankelowitz, L; Kotze, E; Luvuna, Z; Madlala, N; Matyila, S; Padavatan, A; Pillay, M; Rakumakoe, MD; Tomson-Myburgh, M; Venter, WDF and De Vries, E. 2021. Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Gender Affirming Healthcare Guideline for South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. Open Access. Vol 22 (1). https://sahivsoc.org/Files/SAHCS%20GAHC%20guidelines.pdf
Van Breda, A. D., & Addinall, R. M. (2020). State of Clinical Social Work in South Africa. Clinical Social Work Journal, 49, 299 - 311. doi:10.1007/s10615-020-00761-0
Campbell, M.M.; Fresàn, A; Addinall, R.M.; Böhmke, W; Grobler, G.P.; Marais, A; Wilson, D.; Stein, D.J.; Reed, G.M. and Robles, R. 2018. Experiences of gender incongruence and the relationship between social exclusion, psychological distress and dysfunction among South African transgender adults. A field-study for ICD-11. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry. 1 August 2018, 30(3): 168 – 174.
Bouman, WP.; Richards, C.; Addinall, RM.; de Montis, IA.; Duisin, D.; Esteva, I.; Fisher, A.; Harte, F.; Khoury, B.; Lu, Z.; Marais, A.; Mattila, A.; Reddy, DN.; Nieder, TO.; Garcia, RR.; Rodrigues, OM.; Guerra, AR.; Tereshkevich, D.; T’Sjoen, G.; Wilson, D. 2014. Yes and Yes Again: Are Standards of Care which Require Two referrals for Genital Reconstructive Surgery Ethical? Sex and Relationship Therapy, Vol 29. No. 4, 377-389.
Wilson, D; Marais, A; de Villiers, A; Addinall, R; and Campbell, M.M. 2014. Transgender Issues in South Africa, with Particular Reference to the Groote Schuur Hospital transgender Unit. South African Medical Journal, Vol 104, No. 6.
Addinall, R.M. 2003. Homophobia and Heterosexism in Military Social Workers. International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services, Vol 76 (3), 154-163.
Conference/Congress/Seminar Presentations:
International:
NAME OF CONFERENCE: Independent Institutes of Education Principles' Conference: Rethink,
Unlearn, Reimagine
DATE OF CONFERENCE :12 - 13 October 2023
TITLE OF PAPER: SOGIESC: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics
& the School Community.
NAME OF CONFERENCE: Southern African Heads of Independent Schools Association (SAHISA) Conference
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 21 to 25 February 2022
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: The Transgender and Gender Diverse Learner & Staff: An Obstacle or Opportunity for a School Community to Flourish
NAME OF CONFERENCE: 5th Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Virtual Conference
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 20 to 23 October 2021
TITLE OF WORKSHOP: Launch: Gender Affirming Healthcare Guidelines: 20 October 2021
NAME OF CONGRESS: 25th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health: Leave No One Behind
DATE OF CONGRESS:9 to 12 September 2021
TITLE OF PAPER: The Evolution of a Transgender & Gender Diverse Support Group in Cape Town: An Auto-ethnographic Review: 9 September 2021
NAME OF CONFERENCE: ASASWEI International Social Work Conference 2021: Pandemics, Poverty, and Inequality: Social Work in the 21st Century.
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 1 to 3 September 2021
TITLE OF PAPER: The Development of a Best Practice Model for Supporting the Social Transition of Transgender and Gender Diverse Learners in School: An Auto-ethnographic Review: 1 September 2021
NAME OF CONFERENCE: ASASWEI International Social Work Conference 2019: Promoting Healthy Human relationships.
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 27 to 29 August 2019
TITLE OF PAPER: The Transgender Minority Group: Is Social Work in South Africa Failing Them? 28 August 2019
NAME OF CONGRESS: Africa Regional International Meeting for Autism Research & the 19th Congress of the South African Association of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Allied Professionals
DATE OF CONGRESS: 7 to 9 September 2017
TITLE OF SYMPOSIUM: How to Best Support Gender Diverse Children & Adolescents & their Families in Africa
PRESENTATION TITLE: Social Transitioning of Gender Diverse Children & Adolescents in Schools
NAME OF CONFERENCE: Gender Affirming Healthcare Conference
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 19 – 20 November 2016
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 1: Gender Affirming Mental Healthcare for Adults.
TITLE OF PRESENTATION 2: Gender Affirming Mental Healthcare for Children & Adolescents
NAME OF CONFERENCE: 2nd TransHealth, Research and Advocacy Conference: Rooted in the Past; Reaching for the Future
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 30 May – 1 June 2014
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 30 May – 1 June 2014
TITLE OF PAPER 1: Psychosocial Healthcare Services to the Transgender Community: A Cape Town Based Therapist’s Reflections. 31 May 2014
TITLE PAPER 2: A Transgender Support Group: A Cape Town Case Study: 1 June 2014
TITLE PAPER 3: The Transchild and the School: A Cape Town Case Study: 1 June 2014
NAME OF CONFERENCE: African Regional Trans Health and Advocacy Conference
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 26 TO 28 November 2011
TITLE OF PAPER ONE: A Model of Care for Transgender Clients: The Triangle Project’s Experience. Cox, S and Addinall, R.M.
TITLE OF PAPER TWO: Groote Schuur Hospital Transgender Clinic Multi-Disciplinary Programme. Marais, A; Wilson, D; Adams, K; Ross,I; Addinall, R.M. and Theron, L.
NAME OF CONGRESS:XXXIV International Congress on Military Medicine
DATE OF CONGRESS: 15 – 20 September 2002
TITLE OF PAPER: Homophobia and Heterosexism in Military Social Workers
National:
NAME OF CONGRESS: South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) 21st National Congress: Shifting the
Paradigm Towards Community Care and the Unheard Voices in Mental Health.
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 19 to 23 November 2023
TITLE OF SESSION: Best Practices in Transgender Care
NAME OF CONFERENCE: Family Mediators’ Association of the Cape (FAMAC) Conference 2023: Families
Facing Complex Challenges
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 6 October 2023
TITLE OF PAPER: Transgender and Gender Diverse Children: Challenges Families Face.
NAME OF CONFERENCE: South African Education Law Association (SAELA) 27th Annual Education Law
Conference: Navigating Education Law for Sustainable Social Change.
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 14 - 16 August 2023
TITLE OF PAPER: School Management and Gender Diversity: Inclusivity and Schools as a safe Space.
NAME OF CONFERENCE: UCT Division of Family Medicine Conference: GP Refresher Course 2022
DATE OF CONFERENCE: 27 to 30 January 2022
TITLE OF PAPER: Sexuality: The Transgender and Gender Diverse Experience - An Autoethnographic Perspective
Presented during the Sothern African Sexual Health Association Masterclass - 28 January 2022
NAME OF SEMINAR: SASHA WP Sexual Health Master Class/Seminar: Helping the Health Professional Care for the Transgender Patient
DATE OF SEMINAR: 2 November 2019
TITLE OF PAPER: Part One: Transgender Healthcare: Setting the Historical Scene; Part Two: Being Transgender & Engaging Healthcare: Lived Experiences
NAME OF SEMINAR: SASHA WP Sexual Health Master Class/Seminar: Diverse Sexualities & Communities: The Erotic & Relational Landscape
DATE OF SEMINAR: 4 September 2019
TITLE OF PAPER: Diverse Sexualities & Communities: The History, Theory & Evolution to Now
NAME OF CONFERENCE: Western Cape Provincial Substance Use Disorder Conference: University of Cape Town
TITLE OF PAPER: The Transgender Client in Substance Abuse Treatment: Clinical and Ethical Considerations:
9 July 2019
NAME OF CONFERENCE: Western Cape Provincial Substance Use Disorder Conference: University of Cape Town
TITLE OF SEMINAR: Let’s Review the Use of “An Intervention” in Cases of Denial: Criteria, Process &
Ethics: 8 July 2019
NAME OF CONGRESS: SA Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care Western Cape Region Mini-Congress
TITLE OF PAPER: A Sex Positive Paradigm for General Medical Practitioners: 6 May 2006
NAME OF SEMINAR: Southern African Sexual Health Association (SASHA) WP SEMINAR: Recent Advances in the Field of Human Sexuality; Sexual Function, Dysfunction and Treatment
TITLE OF PAPER: A Sex Positive Paradigm for the Multi- Disciplinary Team: 26 February 2005
NAME OF SEMINAR: Southern African Sexual Health Association (SASHA) WP SEMINAR: Recent Advances in the Field of Human Sexuality; Sexual Function, Dysfunction and Treatment
TITLE OF PAPER: Introduction to Erotology: 5 November 2005
NAME OF SEMINAR: Southern African Sexual Health Association (SASHA) National Seminar 2006
TITLE OF PAPER: Polyamory: The Values of an Alternative Sexual Lifestyle: 5 August 2006
NAME OF SEMINAR: Southern African Sexual Health Association (SASHA) WP SEMINAR: Topical Themes in Sexual Health
TITLE OF PAPER: The Erotology of Paraphilia: 4 November 2006