Browsing School of Applied Human Sciences by Title
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Balancing the role of student and motherhood : the experience of students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2016)The conceptualisation of a mother’s role is often accompanied by various ideas about how and what should be done. Therefore, paying attention to the subjective experiences of this role in various contexts is of great ... -
Barriers to the retention of Black African students in post graduate psychology.
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Becoming a self-harmer : a discourse analysis.
(2011)Self-harm is a behaviour constructed as ostracised and abhorrent in most social discourses. While there is an abundance of available research about self-harm, a distinctive gap in the literature concerns how an individual ... -
The behaviour and development of infants with iron deficiency anaemia : systematic observation of 9-month-old Pemban caregiver-infant dyads.
(2011-03-23)Background: The Zanzibar Infant Nutrition Campaign is a large-scale randomised control trial investigating the effects of iron and zinc supplementation on the ... -
Behaviour, biology and the social condition of Cercopithecus Aethiops, the Vervet Monkey.
(1984)Biotelemetry has been coupled with an ethological approach to investigate a postulate that the physiological, behavioural, and social functioning of individuals coact in order to maintain homeostasis in an everchanging ... -
Belly dance as a strategy for women's self care.
(2008)The focus of this study was the exploration of belly dance as a form of female self care. The specific facet of self care explored was female health and well being as impacted on by belly dance. There is a limited amount ... -
Between empiricism and intellectualism : Charles Taylor's answer to the 'media wars'.
(2008)When the Media Wars broke out in Australian universities in the mid-1990s, journalism educator Keith Winschuttle accused cultural studies of teaching theory that contradicted the realist and empirical worldview of journalism ... -
Beyond PTSD : a study of distress and subject positions in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
(2014-05-08)The PTSD model of trauma encapsulated in the DSM has been subject to numerous challenges concerning the model's appropriateness and applicability in the South African context. These challenges relate specifically to ... -
Biodiversity messaging to generation Y students at the Durban University of Technology, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2016)This study deals with the intersection of three global influences that are rapidly changing our world; the first a looming environmental crisis or loss of biodiversity, the second the growing influence of a new generation ... -
Biopsychosocial impacts of laughter yoga and therapy on stroke survivors.
(World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and the Society on Complexity in Acute Illness., 2011)With limited resources and challenges facing health practitioners working with stroke patients, more creative and innovative interventions are required. Although it is normally only considered cliché that “laughter is the ... -
Black and white in ink : discourses of resistance in South African cartooning, 1985-1994.
(2004)In the last decade of apartheid (1985-1994), South African cartoonists demonstrated a range of responses to the political imperatives of the day. While some worked in support of the status quo, the cartoonists who are the ... -
Black KwaZulu-Natal students' attitudes towards the use of medical records for research : a qualitative study.
(2016)Medical records are often used in research to provide evidence to help medical researchers improve their understanding of disease, develop potential treatments and improve patient care. However, patient medical information ... -
Black managers and their work colleagues in selected industrial organizations in Natal : a study of perception, attitudes and experiences.
(1985)South African black Managers are experiencing numerous problems as pioneers in the white-dominated managerial world. Management and research studies have usually concentrated on the black managers' behaviour. The ... -
Blending deaf and hearing cultures.
(2015)Sign language practice is gaining prominence as inclusive eco-art interventions assist with integrating the Deaf into wider society in the City of Durban. Urban-nature adventures that attract both Deaf and hearing participants ... -
The Bold and the Beautiful and Generations : a comparative ethnographic audience study of Zulu-speaking students living in residences on the University of Natal's Durban campus.
(2002)This thesis is an ethnographic study of the soap opera viewing patterns and interpretations of Zulu-speaking students living in residences on the Natal University's Durban campus who watch The Bold and the Beautiful (an ... -
Book hunger and the political economy of the South African booktrade : structural and policy constraints on the production and distribution of academic books.
(1994)While 'book hunger' in Third World societies was regarded by a 'first generation' of theorists, working in the modernization/diffusion of innovation paradigm, as a cause of underdevelopment (and thus requiring the correction ... -
Botswana television (BTV) negotiating control and cultural production in a globalising context : a political economy of media state ownership in Africa.
(2007)Botswana is considered an exemplary democracy in Africa. It is imperative to assess how an enviable democracy could flourish when the most widely available mass media was not independent. The fact is, despite the fact ... -
Boys being boys : psychosocial factors associated with alcohol use among mid-adolescent males in a Durban boys' high school.
(2009)The challenges of adolescence include negotiating risk behaviours such as alcohol use. The high prevalence and frequency of alcohol use among adolescents has been noted with concern, as has the rapidly decreasing age of ... -
Brainwashing in a large group awareness training? : the classical conditioning hypothesis of brainwashing.
(2015)This dissertation provides an analysis of the processes of “death” and “rebirth” employed by Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs), and suggests a theory of brainwashing based upon Pavlov’s concept of classical conditioning. ...