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"They say Butch go catch him" : a study of imagined intergroup contact as constructed by informal settlers as abject partners in contact.
(2015)
The imagined contact hypothesis has provided strong empirical evidence that positive mental simulations of intergroup encounters result in the same mediation benefits of direct intergroup contact (e.g. Turner, Crisp & ...
Health and well-being of homeless youth in Ghana.
(2015)
Background: Homeless youth have been described as being resilient, and vulnerable to poor mental and behavioural health. However, literature on factors promoting resilience of these homeless youth in an African context, ...
The capacity needs of extended family and community members in the care and support of orphans and vulnerable children in uMgungundlovu and uThukela districts.
(2015)
The aim of this study was to explore and describe experiences and capacity needs of extended family and community members that care for and support orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in UMgungundlovu and uThukela ...
The relationship between psychosocial factors and poor neurocognitive and socio-emotional development in children perinatally infected with HIV in South Africa.
(2015)
Background: Survival among perinatally HIV infected children has increased over the last
few years in South Africa, mainly due to the availability and accessibility of combination
antiretroviral therapy (cARTs). These ...
Psychosocial rehabilitation for schizophrenia : developing a community-based approach to promote recovery in Dr Kenneth Kaunda district, South Africa.
(2015)
Background: Schizophrenia, a chronic and severe mental illness, contributes significantly to the global burden of disease and disability. In addition to biomedical treatment, service users with schizophrenia require ...
Maintaining inequality through 'being silent about' : a dyadic daily diary study establishing the presence of absence in domestic labour relationships.
(2015)
Domestic labour relationships are structured by entanglement issues of gender, class, race and informal labour, producing profound inequality. This daily diary study accessed five domestic labour pairs, comprised of white ...
Brainwashing in a large group awareness training? : the classical conditioning hypothesis of brainwashing.
(2015)
This dissertation provides an analysis of the processes of “death” and “rebirth” employed by Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs), and suggests a theory of brainwashing based upon Pavlov’s concept of classical conditioning. ...
The ethics of online therapy : work towards new ethics guidelines.
(2014)
The burgeoning increase in internet access and use in South Africa and globally has opened up a new doorway for provision of mental health services online. This descriptive study focuses specifically on psychotherapeutic ...
Moral behaviour and the formation of social identity in minimal virtual environment.
(2015)
Social media has become a popular medium for social interaction. Behavior on these mediums has gained researchers attention due to their unorthodox, immoral forms of behavior. By providing a primitive virtual environment ...
Traumatic re-enactment of childhood and adolescent trauma : a complex developmental trauma perspective in a non-clinical sample of South African school-going adolescents.
(2015)
Exposure to interpersonal violence during childhood has been found to be associated with various form of traumatic re-enactment. In addition to subjective re-experiencing symptoms (e.g., flashbacks) various forms of ...