Browsing Masters Degrees (Social work) by Title
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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
The development of evaluation strategies for intervention projects for girl street children : a participatory action approach.
(2005)This study which was conducted in a shelter for girl street children in KwaZuluNatal explored the programmes available to the girl street child and the current evaluation strategies for such programmes. The aim of the ... -
Discharge planning in a tertiary hospital in KwaZulu-Natal : views of multidisciplinary team members.
(2014)Discharge planning is an integral part of patient care, which involves the transfer of patients from the hospital to the community, taking into account the patient’s unique and complex needs. However, this process is often ... -
Does the child support grant contribute to poverty alleviation? : an investigation into the perceptions of families receiving the child support grant in Phoenix, Durban.
(2004)The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of families receiving the Child Support Grant in Phoenix, Durban and to establish whether the Child Support Grant contributes to poverty alleviation or not. The ... -
The effect of resettlement on the livelihoods of the Folweni traditional community.
(2010)Resettlement is a change process where people are involuntarily relocated from one place to another. In most cases, it causes drastic environmental, social, political and economic changes. If planned and implemented ... -
The effectiveness of social work intervention in promoting parental involvement in formal pre-school teaching.
(1987)The study aimed firstly to explore whether there were any differences in the quality of parent-child interactions in those children who scored high and those who scored low on the Pupil Behavior Rating Scale. Sixty-five ... -
Empowering volunteer caregivers working with foster families : the design, implementation and evaluation of a training programme.
This study aimed to design, implement and evaluate a training programme to empower volunteer community caregivers working with foster families in the rural area of Ndwedwe, KwaZulu-Natal. The location of the study was ... -
Empowerment towards poverty alleviation.
(2002)Recent changes to welfare policy in South Africa advocated the need for social workers to adopt social development as a paradigm for service delivery. Within this policy framework empowerment is touted as the model to ... -
Establishing and sustaining community-based youth organisations : a study of the experiences of community youth workers.
(2001)No abstract available. -
An evaluation of community partipation in attempts to start a community garden project in the Shakashead community.
(2000)The purpose of the study was to describe and analyse community participation in attempts to start a community garden project in the Shakashead community. A key focus of the study was to identify the level of participation ... -
The evaluation of the AIDS care pilot project at Durban's Children Society as a model of care for HIV infected orphans in Durban.
(2003)The HIV/AIDS orphan crisis is one of the humanitarian and developmental challenges facing the global community. Providing a home, medical care, education, psychosocial support and basic needs for these children is part of ... -
An evaluation of the bereavement programme for adolescents at Durban Children's Home.
(2009)Many children are affected by the loss of a parent. In South Africa this is exacerbated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Therefore the Durban Children's Home responded by developing a Bereavement Programme for children who lost ... -
An evaluation of the implementation of the national case management model for children orphaned as result of HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe.
(2015)HIV and AIDS continues be a major challenge in Zimbabwe and a huge drawback to the country’s socio-economic development trajectory. Its impact is exacerbated by the protracted socio-economic and political crisis the country ...