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The discourses that influence the application of the Ntu psychotherapy by psychologists based in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)The study made use of critical discourse analysis to explore how psychologists in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, talk about their practice of psychotherapy and Ntu psychotherapy in particular. The objectives of the study ... -
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., 2010)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 ... -
Donor insemination families : a qualitative exploration of being lesbian parents raising sperm donor children in South Africa.
(2010)This research aimed to explore the parenting experiences of lesbian women who chose to have children through artificial insemination. While this study aimed to explore the experience of being a lesbian parent in South ... -
Dynamic assessment of cognitive ability: investigating the construct validity of the Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT) within an academic context.
(2018)No doubt, intelligence testing is vital for placement, intervention and other academic purposes, however, when factors that might disadvantage the individual, such as their impoverished socio-economic backgrounds are not ... -
Early intervention programmes and parenting deaf children: parental experiences of stress.
(2018)When confronted with a child recently diagnosed as deaf, parents can find themselves in a foreign and stressful situation. Parenting stress can have detrimental effects (e.g., socio-emotional problems) on the family and ... -
Early maladaptive schemas : the relationship with anxiety patterns, and perceived parental rearing behaviours.
(2013)Since 2008 the prevalence rate of anxiety disorders has increased to 15,8%, thus putting them as the most prevalent class of psychiatric disorders in South Africa. This research firstly aimed to examine the relationship ... -
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 ... -
An ecological analysis of the stories of fourteen HIV infected and affected individuals.
(2012)No abstract available. -
Educational psychologists' experiences in the assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) leaners in KwaZulu Natal region.
(2013)Educational psychologists encounter great controversies with regard to the use of traditional clinical and psycho-educational assessment tools to evaluate individuals from diverse communities. In order to gain a meaningful ... -
Educational psychologists' perceptions of their role in the Pietermaritzburg area.
(2008)With vast changes occurring in the South African context since 1994, it is clear that the role of educational psychologists has also shifted. While changes have occurred, numerous difficulties still exist within the education ... -
The educators' perceptions and experiences of inclusive education in selected Pietermaritzburg schools.
(2008)After the first democratic elections in 1994 the South African government was faced with the enormous challenge of blending a sophisticated First World education system for the minority with an underdeveloped Third World ... -
Educators' perceptions of learners' intelligences.
(2006)Educators from schools located in the Midlands region of KwaZulu Natal were approached to participate in the present study with the aim of investigating educators' perceptions of their learners' intelligence. School type ... -
The effect of aversive racism on mock legal decision making.
(2008)The present study experimentally examined the effect(s) of aversive racism on mock legal decisions made by university students. The experiment adopted a 3 (Evidence quality: low, ambiguous or high) x 2 (race stereotype ... -
The effect of changes in group boundary permeability on the stereotype threat or lift effect.
(2010)Stereotype Threat and Lift have been well established in demonstrating the effects that stereotypes have on task performance outcomes. However, these phenomena inadequately explain why not all in group members succumb to ...