Jane Namusoke is an Ugandan counselling psychologist and lecturer with over 20 years of experience in mental health education, clinical supervision, and trauma-informed practice. She focuses on strengthening mental health systems in low-resource and post-conflict settings. She has co-authored studies on mental health and has supported organizations such as UNESCO through training material development and psychosocial support manuals. She is also experienced in multi-stakeholder collaboration and community engagement.
In December 2025 she and her colleague, Nathan Mayengo, will visit the Danish Center of Psychotraumatology to collaborate with Professor Ask Elklit on a project relating to their field of research.
The projects are currently being conceptualized, and updates on their project will be posted under Publications on the website.
Selected publications
1. Mayengo, N., Namusoke, J., Kibedi, H., & Amone-P’Olak, K. (2025). Education-to-Work Transition Among the Youth in Post-Conflict Settings: A Review of the Roles of Individual Agency, Mental Health, and Psychosocial Well-Being. Social Sciences, 14(7), 400.
2. Namusoke, J., Mayengo, N., Nakanwagi, C. C., Omech, B., Kibedi, H., Ssenyonga, J., Amone-P’Olak, K., & Meiser-Stedman, R. (2025). Cognitive appraisal as a mediator of the relations between war experiences and PTSD in the formerly abducted youth in Northern Uganda: Findings from the WAYS study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
3. Namusoke, J., Amone-P’Olak’., Nakanwagi, C. C., Kibedi, H., Mayengo, N., Ssenyonga, J., & Omech, B The mediating Role of Self-Control on the relations between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Use among Adolescents in Uganda. Front. Psychol. Sec. Developmental Psychology Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1297565
4. Chalmer E. Thompson, Jane Namusoke & Khym Isaac De Barros (2021) On Pan-Africanism, Feminism, and Psychotherapy: The Perspectives of Three Black Scholar Practitioners from the U.S., Uganda, and St. Kitts/U. S, Women & Therapy, 44:1-2, 118-135, DOI:10.1080/02703149.2020.1775980
5. Mayengo, N., Namusoke, J., Byamugisha, G., Sebukalu, P., Kagaari, J., Auma-Okumu, S., Baguwemu, A., Ntare, E. R., Nakasiita, K. N., Atuhairwe, R., Goretti, M. K., Okumu Oruma, G. O., Thompson, C. E., & Dennis, B. (2018). A study of Ugandan children’s perspectives on peace, conflict, and peace-building: A liberation psychology approach. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 24(3), 354–363. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000344
6. James Kagaari, Kirabo Nakasiita, Edward Ntare, Richard Atuhaire, Ali Baguwemu, Gerald Ojok, Auma S Okumu, Goretti Kaahwa, Gastone Byamugisha, Paul Semakula, Jane Namusoke, Nathan Mayengo, Barbara Denis, Chalmer E Thompson (2017) Children’s conceptions of peace in two Ugandan primary schools: Insights for peace curriculum. Journal: Research in Comparative and International Education. Volume12, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745499917698299
7. Nathaniel Mayengo, Jane Namusoke &Barbara Dennis. The testimony of neoliberal contradiction in education choice and privatisation in a poor country: the case of a private, undocumented rural primary school in Uganda Pages 293-309 | Published online: 27 Jul 2015 https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2015.1050687
