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Lucie Cluver

Lucie Cluver
Position:
University Lecturer in Evidence-based Social Intervention
Telephone (+01865):
(2)80370
Email Address:
lucie.cluver@spi.ox.ac.uk

Personal Info

Lucie Cluver is a University Lecturer in Evidence-Based Social Intervention, and a Fellow of Wolfson College. She trained as a social worker, and has practiced in South Africa and the U.K. Her research interests are in the impacts on children of AIDS-orphanhood and parental AIDS-illness, particularly mental health, physical health and educational outcomes.

Current projects include a 4-year longitudinal study of mental health amongst 1200 AIDS-orphaned children and other children in Cape Town, with Cape Town Child Welfare Society (www.helpkids.org.za). Dr Cluver is working with the South African National Departments of Social Development, Health and Education on the 'Young Carers Project': a national survey of 6000 children and 2600 caregivers to determine health and educational impacts of caring for an AIDS-sick caregiver (www.youngcarers.org.za). Other projects include a cluster randomised controlled trial of psychosocial intervention for orphans and vulnerable children in Mpumalanga, with the University of Witwatersrand and Soul City.

Dr Cluver has acted as a scientific advisor to UNICEF, the WHO, and the South African National Action Committee for Children Affected by AIDS (NACCA). She leads the Centre for AIDS Interdisciplinary Research at Oxford (CAIRO). She speaks terrible Zulu and has a bad habit of missing flights.

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Publications

  • Kuo, C., Operario, D. & Cluver, L. (2012) 'Depression amongst carers of AIDS-orphaned and other children in Umlazi Township, South Africa'. Global Public Health.
  • Cluver, L., Kganakga, M, Boyes, M. (2012) 'Children affected by HIV/AIDS: Psychsocial Interventions for School-Aged Children', in Sherr, L., Heyman, J., Kidman, R. (eds) Children Affected by AIDS: Moving from Research to Action: Oxford University Press.
  • Cluver, L., Orkin, M., Boyes, M.E. & Gardner, F. (2012) 'AIDS-orphanhood and caregiver AIDS-sickness-status: Effects on psychological symptoms in South African youth', Journal of Pediatric Psychology. DOI: 10.1093/jpegsy/jss004. (IF 2.943)
  • Cluver, L., Gardner, F. & Orkin, M. (2011) 'Persisting mental health problems among AIDS-orphaned children in South Africa'. In press, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02459.x.
  • Cluver, L.D., Orkin, M., Boyes, M.E., Gardner, F., & Meinck, F. (2011) Transactional sex amongst AIDS-orphaned and AIDS-affected adolescents predicted by abuse and extreme poverty. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, vol. 58, pp336-42. DOI:10.1097/QAI.0b013e31822f0d82.
  • Cluver, L.D., Operario, D., Gardner, F., & Boyes, M. (2011) 'A family disease: Mental health of children orphaned by AID and living with HIV+ caregivers'  in H.E. Fitzgerald, K. Puura, M. Tomlinson & C. Paul (eds) Child Psychology and mental health: Cultural and ethno-racial perspectives, vol 1: International Perspectives: Development and context, pp65-97), Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Cluver, L.
     (2011) 'Children of the AIDS pandemic'. Nature, vol. 474, pp27-29.
  • Cluver, L., Operario, D., Lane, T. Kganakga. (2011) 'Educational shortfalls among 'Young Carers' in the South African AIDS Epidemic'. Journal of Adolescent Research. (Online first publication). http://jar.sagepub.com/content/early/recent
  • Cluver, L., Bowes, L. and Gardner, F. (2010) Risk and protective factors for bullying victimisation amongst AIDS-affected and vulnerable children in South Africa. Child Abuse and Neglect, 34, 793-803.
  • Cluver, L., Gardner, F. & Operario, D. (2010) 'Psychological distress amongst AIDS-orphaned children in Urban South Africa' in D. Kaoukji & M'Jid (eds) Children's services in the Developing World. The Library of Essays in Child Welfare and Development Series. Ashgate.
  • Cluver, L., Operario, D. & Gardner, F. (2010) 'The family disease: Children orphaned by AIDS and living with HIV+ caregivers'. In M. Tomlinson et al (eds) Child Psychology and Mental Health. Praeger Press.
  • Cluver, L., Finch, D. and Seedat, S. (2009) Predictors of post-traumatic stress symptomology amongst AIDS-orphaned children. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 22 (2) 106-113.
  • Cluver, L. & Orkin, M. (2009) Stigma, bullying, poverty and AIDS-orphanhood: Interactions mediating psychological problems for children in South Africa. Social Science and Medicine, 69 (8) 1186-1193.
  • Cluver, L, Gardner, F & Operario, D. (2009) Effects of poverty on the psychological health of AIDS-orphaned children. AIDS Care 21 (6) 732-741.
  • Cluver, L, Gardner, F & Operario, D. (2009) Effects of caregiving on psychological distress amongst AIDS-orphaned children in South Africa. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 4(3) 185-199.
  • Cluver, L., Gardner, F. & Operario, D.  (2009) 'Psychological distress amongst AIDS-orphaned children in urban South Africa' in Children's services in the Developing World. Eds Kaoukji, D., & M'Jid, The Library of Essays in Child Welfare and Development Series, Ashgate.
  • Cluver, L., Gardner, F. & Operario, D. (2009) 'Parental illness, caregiving factors and psychological distress among children orphaned by acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in South Africa', Vulnerable Children & Youth Studies, vol. 4, pp185-98.
  • Operario, D., Cluver, L., Rees, H., MacPhail, C., & Pettifor, A. (2008) Orphanhood and completion of compulsory education among young people in South Africa. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 18, 173-186.
  • Cluver, L., Gardner, F & Operario, D (2008) Effects of stigma on the mental health of adolescents orphaned by AIDS. Journal of Adolescent Health 42 (4) 410-418.
  • Cluver, L & Operario, D. (2008)  Intergenerational linkages of AIDS: Vulnerability of orphaned children for HIV infection (Review) Institute of Development Studies Bulletin, 39(5) 28-35
  • Cluver, L & Gardner, F (2007) Risk and protective factors for psychological well-being of children orphaned by AIDS in Cape Town: a qualitative study of children and caregivers' perspectives AIDS Prevention and Care; 19(3): pp 318-325
  • Operario, D., Pettifor, A., Cluver, L., MacPhail, C., & Rees, HV. (2007) Prevalence of parental death among young people in South Africa and risk for HIV infection.  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 44, 93-98.
  • Cluver, L, Gardner, F & Operario, D.  (2007) Psychological distress amongst AIDS-orphaned children in urban South Africa.  Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology and Allied Disciplines, 48(8) 755-763.
  • Cluver, L & Gardner, F (2007) The Mental Health of Children orphaned by AIDS: A review of International and South African Research Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 19(1) 1-17.
  • Cluver, L, Bray, R &  Dawes, A (2007) Monitoring the worst forms of child labour and child exploitation: Harmful child labour, trafficking of children, child Commercial Sexual Exploitation, and use of children in the drug trade in Dawes, A., Bray, R. & van der Merwe, A.: Monitoring child rights and wellbeing: A South African Approach. Cape Town, HSRC Press
  • Noble, M, Wright, G & Cluver, L  (2007) Conceptualising, Defining and Measuring Child Poverty in South Africa: An Argument for a Multidimensional Approach in Dawes, A., Bray, R. & van der Merwe, A.: Monitoring child rights and wellbeing: A South African Approach. HSRC Press
  • Barnes, H., Cluver, L. and Wright, G. (2007) Findings from the Indicators of Poverty and Social Exclusion Project:Children. Key Report 5, Pretoria: Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa.
  • Barnes, H., Noble, M., Dibben, C., Meth, C., Wright, G. and Cluver, L. (2007) South Africa Microdata Scoping Study. Report to the ESRC Research Resources Board.
  • Noble, Michael, Wright, Gemma & Cluver, Lucie (2006) Developing a child-focused and multidimensional model of child poverty for South Africa Journal of Children and Poverty, 2006, 12(1), 39-53
  • Cluver, L & Gardner, F (2006) The psychological well-being of children orphaned by AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa Annals of General Psychiatry, 5:8
  • Cluver, L., Magasela, W. and Wright, G. (2006) Health and a Safe Environment, Key Report 4, Pretoria: Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa.

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