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Theses and Dissertations (Social Work and Criminology): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Social media is an Internet-based application that enable people to communicate and interact with others online, form relationships, access information, and create and share content with people known or not known to them, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Environmental risks and poverty are prevalent and have negative effects on all community members, including children. Children are exposed to health risks such as asthma, airborne diseases and lung diseases caused by ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07)Children’s participation in decision making processes was affirmed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) to be a cornerstone of their human rights (United Nations (UN), 1989). The South African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Approximately forty percent of the world population currently has access to the internet, with growing popularity among adolescents who can access social media and the internet at any time and place. Social media use can ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Child well-being is associated with positive outcomes in life, therefore, promoting children’s well-being can lead to sustainable futures for them. The goal of this study was to explore children’s perspectives on child ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04)Child well-being is a multi-dimensional concept that includes physical, mental, social, cognitive, material, and environmental domains, which are interrelated. Children’s well-being influences their quality of life during ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Well-being is a subjective construct, meaning each individual can determine their view of well-being the best. Children are considered a vulnerable group and to align interventions aimed at improving their sustainable ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)'n Traumatiese breinbesering (TBB) is 'n ernstige en lewensveranderende besering wat veroorsaak word deur 'n eksterne krag soos 'n val, motorongeluk, aanranding of deur 'n voorwerp wat skade aan die brein veroorsaak. 'n ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Research indicates that adults' views on children's well-being have been used to describe child well-being (Casa & Frönes, 2019:3). Bammer, Michaux, and Sanson (2010:15) emphasise the significance of the subjective well-being ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In an analysis of the General Household Survey 2002-2018 of Statistics South Africa it was found that children make up 34% of the total population in South-Africa. Large numbers of children in South Africa are exposed to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The aim of the study was to investigate the quality of post-rape services rendered to adult female rape survivors within the criminal justice system. The population comprised of both adult female rape survivors and service ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In terms of Section 10 of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005 (Republic of South Africa [RSA], 1996), children who are at an age, maturity and stage of development where they are able to participate in decisions concerning their ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Many decisions that are related to children’s well-being are made based on social policies and on the conceptions of adults. However, adult conceptions of child well-being may not be relevant to children. Therefore, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child which set out to have children’s voices heard and included in decision-making processes affecting them (United Nations, 1989). The goal of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Globally, social media use is on the rise. Initially, social media was targeted at young adults, however younger adolescents and children are now becoming active social media users. Due to social media users becoming younger ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In the Western Cape, 98% of people living with intellectual disability are being taken care of by caregivers. These caregivers often sacrifice their own aspirations in their devotion to the person living with intellectual ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The unfathomable crime of murdering one’s own child, referred to as filicide, is increasingly reported on in media and evokes disbelief in society, especially when committed by the victim’s mother. Mothers who murder their ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Child well-being is defined as a multidimensional concept as it measures the quality of a child’s life by looking at the physical, mental, social, and material domains of well-being. Children’s well-being can contribute ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-09)The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development strives towards eradicating poverty in all its forms; it envisions a world where everyone has access to safe drinking water, sanitation, improved hygiene, and food security, where ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In his thesis, The design and implementation of brief interventions for carers of people diagnosed with substance use disorder: A harm reduction perspective, the candidate used applied research, specifically intervention ...
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