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Anneliese de Wet, PhD (she/her/hers)

Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Anneliese de Wet is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. She completed her PhD in Psychology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa in December 2020. For her dissertation she developed an individual measure of recovery for a South African context by exploring the understanding of recovery for persons, their carers and their service providers, as well as the barriers and facilitators of recovery. This was the first such measure developed for a South African context. Anneliese is particularly interested in peer support work. She wishes to contribute to the establishment of professional peer support work as a resource, and the empowerment of persons through peer support work, in South Africa.

Another related interest she has, is positive psychological ways of addressing mental health challenges, such as stigma. She is currently conducting a study focused on exploring workplace stigma resistance among peer support specialists. Anneliese is also engaged in other research at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, amongst which is in a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of a coaching intervention to address peer specialists’ stress and distress on the job. Previously, she explored the lived experience of recovery from first-episode psychosis in a South African sample and worked on a Canadian CIHR-funded international, multi-site study on community engagement in HIV vaccine research.

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