Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Psychology) by Title
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Acholi indigenous methods for healing and re-integrating survivors of violent conflict into the community: a case of Gulu and Kitgum, Northern Uganda.
(2017)This study explored Acholi indigenous methods for healing and re-integrating survivors of violent conflict into the community in Gulu and Kitgum, Northern Uganda. The healing mechanisms of Acholi indigenous healing and ... -
Adolescent boys living with HIV.
(2011)This qualitative research identified constructions of masculinity among seven adolescent boys who were HIV positive, purposively sampled from the age range of 13 to 16 years and were members of a clinic-based HIV support ... -
Analysis of race and racism discourse by academics in post-apartheid Higher Education.
(2019)Despite being in the twenty-fourth year of a democratic South Africa with a constitutionally enacted goal of non-racialism, South Africa continues to be plagued by social explosions of race and racism incidents in various ... -
An analysis of the experiences of children with cerebral palsy in therapeutic horse riding
(2009)This study utilised a qualitative interpretive approach to investigate the subjective -
An analysis of the experiences of children with cerebral palsy in therapeutic horse riding.
(2009)This study utilised a qualitative interpretive approach to investigate the subjective experiences of six children with cerebral palsy who participated in a therapeutic horse riding intervention programme over a two-year ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Building critical reflexivity through life story work.
(2018)This thesis investigates what happens when space is facilitated in a number of settings for the development of critical reflexivity through narrative practices and other related reflexive and dialogical methodology. In a ... -
Career management complexities in a developing economy : an autoethnographic exposition of one inxile’s.
(2017)This reflexive study was conceptualised from the lens of a South African whereby as a developing economy political, educational and socioeconomic strangleholds persistently impinge on individuals’ career management processes. ... -
Construction of threat : Afrikaansness as an identity in crisis in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2012)In a South African society in transformation it is well known that "white‟ Afrikaans-speaking South Africans are experiencing social change as a painful process. Against this background the purpose of the study was to ... -
Critical reflection in service learning: the construction of the 'good citizen'
(2017)Service-learning, and its iterations, has gained popularity across many countries in the last few decades. It offers students the opportunity to have real world, often transformative, learning experiences as part of their ... -
The cultural and linguistic appropriateness of the individual scale for Zulu-speaking pupils : a Bakhtinian analysis.
(2016)The context of psychological practices in South Africa is changing, particularly the assessment practices. A change in ways of understanding intellectual functioning has transpired within culturally and linguistically ... -
Culture and the self in moral and ethical decision-making : a dialogical approach.
(2003)This study investigated isiZulu-speakers' conceptions of morality. The relationship between concepts of the self and morality was also explored, as were influences of gender, family and community on moral reasoning. Fifty-two ... -
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, 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 ... -
Eat your heart out : a narrative approach to understanding anorexia nervosa in nine adult women.
This study attempted to explore anorexia nervosa (AN) narratively using the writing and reading of self-reflexive stories of 9 adult women participants independently diagnosed with AN. The literature was organised using ... -
The effects of coping, social support, attribution and cognitive illness representation on outcome measures of pain, disability and psychological well-being in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
(2002)This study investigates the psychosocial aspects of rheumatoid arthritis (RA),a chronic debilitating disease. It explores the quality of life in a low socio-economic group of clinic-based adult RA patients. The aims of the ... -
The effects of schistosomiasis on the behaviour of children.
(1981)An ethological study was undertaken in two primary schools in Natal to assess the effect of schistosome infections on the ordinary behaviour of schoolchildren in endemic areas. The following topics are discussed :- 1. The ...