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"Deaf ears and closed minds : do you hear the child's voice?" : exploring disclosures from the perspective of child rape victims.
(2008)Despite recent increases in public, media and research concern with the issue of child rape, not much is known about the disclosure of this phenomenon. This study focused on exploring disclosure from the perspective of ... -
Dealing with a positive HIV diagnosis : a qualitative study exploring the lives of five people living with HIV in a rural Eastern Cape setting.
(2016)Receiving an HIV diagnosis is a complex reality facing individuals. It alters life and its meaning for the infected individual, their family and the community. This study explored the experiences of five people infected ... -
Deficits of cognitive executive functions in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
(2001)Although a broad range of neuropsychological deficits have been reported to occur in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), few studies have examined the executive functions in this patient group. The ... -
A descriptive study of the modus operandi of serial rapists in South Africa.
(Acta Criminologica, 2010)This article reflects research of which the aim is to increase our collective knowledge of the modus operandi of serial rapists in South Africa in an attempt to contribute to the prevention and prosecution of perpetrators. ... -
"Detaching from food" : the relationship between disordered eating and styles of attachment within a multi-racial student sample.
(2004)A growing body of research has explored the prevalence of eating disorder pathology within the ethnically and culturally diverse South African context. The purpose of this study was to examine the presence and severity ... -
The development and evaluation of a community-based programme offering psychosocial support to vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and violence.
(2004)This research programme endeavours to develop, implement and evaluate an effective method of offering psychosocial support to vulnerable children. Vulnerability is defined by trained community members as including children ... -
The development of a measure of racism for the post apartheid South African context.
(2011)Traditionally, the racial views of whites towards blacks have been studied in the context of old-fashioned styles of racism. This meant that, methodologically, attitude items were often direct and crude in content, reflecting ... -
The development of addition problem solving skills in grade one children : a microgenetic approach.
(2000)This thesis replicates and explores some of the recent findings by Robert Siegler regarding the development ofaddition skills in grade one children. Siegler states that children employ a number ofdifferent strategies to ... -
The development of communicative competence : the ontogenesis of joint co-ordinated interaction between mother and infant.
(1977)An analysis of mother-infant interaction during the preverbal period has revealed the importance of gaze in establishing the phatic channel and in the development of an intersubjectivity between them. Before the infant ... -
The development, implementation and evaluation of interventions to build school connectedness : a pilot study.
(2014)Introduction: The Department of Education in South Africa has adopted the concept of whole school development in the delivery of basic education. Social connectedness in the school environment is central to this concept ... -
The developmental behavioural ecology of infant baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus)
(1994)Presented in this thesis are the results of a 23-month field study (April 1991 - February 1993) which focused on infant development in a free-ranging baboon troop (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) inhabiting the Cathedral Peak ... -
Discourses of love and money : exploring constructions of gender and romantic relationships.
(2013)This dissertation considers gender relations and intimacy in romantic relationships within the context of economic globalization and consumer culture. The aim was to explore how the economic structure of South African ... -
Discourses of violent crime in South Africa : constructing crime, criminals and victims.
(2010)Talk of violent crime in South Africa abounds, with criminal violence as a topic of discussion on many social platforms - from the President‟s State of the Nation address to conversations between people on the street. This ... -
Discursive constructions of gender-based violence and safe sex practices among female residence students at UKZN.
(2009)Gender-based violence and the risk of HIV infection are some of the social problems facing women in South Africa. The emergence of gender-based violence as a prominent challenge facing the University of KwaZulu-Natal ... -
The disobedient naïve psychologist : deviating from predicted attributions in a social context.
(2009)Classical attribution theorists developed models of causal attribution that reflected their belief that people were primarily interested in attribution accuracy. These models did not consider contextual factors such as ... -
Disruptive or merely alternative? A case study of a South African gay church.
(Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa., 2011)The main aim of this article is to engage with how a South African church through its discursive practices, continues to live out the conviction set out in Germond and de Gruchy's 1997 book "Aliens in the Household of ... -
Distinguishing between psychogenic and organically-based seizures : the search for critical psychological variables.
(2006)Differentiating between organic epilepsy and psychogenic pseudoseizures is a difficult task even for experienced practitioners . Both disorders present in a similar manner and at present there are no clinical signs that ... -
Do cumulative mild head injuries in rugby affect neuropsychological performance? : a comparative study between club rugby players and non-contact sport athletes.
(2008)Context: Concussion is a major sports medicine concern that is currently under scrutinisation worldwide. Well-publicised cases of careers ending due to multiple concussions, and the potential for permanent, disabling ... -
Do industrial/organisational psychology journal articles reflect a managerial bias within research and practice?
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"Don't touch me on my psychology and religion!" : feminist backlash in a wearable cloak and different voice.
(Agenda., 2011)In this article it is argued that feminist successes in South Africa are being ‘overshadowed’ by movements which are essentially anti-feminist and brazenly patriarchal, but which go unchallenged because these movements are ...
