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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 ... -
Deployment related stress : the experience of naval families.
(1999)The sacrifices required of Navy families are substantial. In order to maintain readiness, the Navy must maintain high standards and retain well trained people. To retain experienced and productive service members, family ... -
A description of kinship care placements in Ekukhanyeni, Nkandla local municipality.
(2009)The Department of Social Development has made good progress in finalizing children's court enquiries and placing children officially in formal foster care with relatives. This has major implications for accessing social ... -
A description of kinship care placements in Nseleni, Richards Bay district.
(2008)This study described kinship care placement in the Nseleni area. The study aims to describe the type of care in kinship foster care placements in the Nseleni area, Richards Bay. The objectives of the study were to investigate ... -
A descriptive study of racial identity amongst University of Natal, Durban students in a post-apartheid South Africa.
(2003)It has almost been a decade since the inception of a 'New South Africa', without apartheid, which separated South Africans and classified them hierarchically according to their 'race'. The 'eradication' of apartheid has ... -
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 ... -
Developing a methodology for cognitive research with socially-housed chacma baboons.
(2004)Testing on laboratory-housed primates has long been the standard for research in cognitive psychology and other areas. As an alternative to this, a group of socially housed chacma baboons (Papio hamadrayas ursinus) at ... -
Developing evaluative strategies for harm reduction programme for street children in Durban : a PAR approach.
(2005)The research has been part of a larger study on developing evaluative strategies for programmes on street children in KwaZulu Natal. This study focussed on harm reduction programmes with reference to violence and crime. ... -
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 and evaluation of a conflict resolution programme : the school as context.
(1997)The research entailed the development, implementation and evaluation of a conflict resolution programme. Using the ecological perspective as the theoretical framework, the study highlighted the school as an appropriate ... -
Development and stakeholder's validation of prisoners programme in Nigeria.
(2020)The purpose of this study was to identify some indices of stakeholders’ awareness and readiness for prisoner reintegration, develop and validate the curricular content of proposed prisoner reintegration programme, determine ... -
Development communication and the paradox of choice : imposition and dictatorship in comparing Sami and the SanBushmen experiences of cultural autonomy.
(2005)This research project examines the relevance of Kenneth Arrow's (1951) Impossibility Theorem as a criterion for assessing post-modern critical approaches to development media theories (Servaes, 200 I; Melkote and Steeves, ... -
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 ... -
Development of a scale to measure feminist perspectives.
(2019)This study was an attempt to develop a scale that measured, and was inclusive of the different feminist perspectives in a South African context. The research process began by analysing local and internal literature on ... -
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 ...