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(University of Pretoria, 2017)In an effort to gain more insight into the subjective experience of recovery, and provide a platform for their voices to be heard, this research endeavour focuses on the storied-experiences of recovering addicts as conveyed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-03-24)This study undertook to examine factors potentially contributing to a high rate of attrition experienced on the National Higher Diploma in Emergency Medical Care (EMC) at the Witwatersrand Technikon. The sample group ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Objective: Academic stress and alcohol use accompany the transition from secondary to tertiary education for some university students and are associated with a variety of negative outcomes. Although a dearth of research ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)studies have shown the various factors and types thereof that influence academic success. However, there is a dearth of South African studies on factors affecting academic success cross-racially, across institutions and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)In this research a novel adaptation of Luborsky’s Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method was implemented within a phenomenological methodology. The Duquesne phenomenological research method (DPRM) provided the ...
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(Wiley, 2023-01)Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is an intervention targeted at enhancing the socioemotional and regulatory functioning of at-risk infants. However, to use the ABC for infants/toddlers with intellectual ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-03)ORIENTATION: The empirically designed English Comprehension Test (ECT) is theorised to measure verbal reasoning and is currently undergoing validation. The test development produced two versions of the ECT, namely, ECT ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007)This research study explores the experiences of adolescent girls testifying in a criminal court in cases of sexual abuse and rape in South Africa. Private and public narratives, such as the participants’ experiences in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Adolescent substance abuse is not only a significant burden on the abusing individuals, but also on their families, particularly their parents. The study explored the experiences of parents of substance-abusing adolescents. ...
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Adolescents’ experiences following a group-based intervention for at risk youth exposed to violence (University of Pretoria, 2020)South Africa has amongst the highest rates of violence in the world. Research has revealed that school-aged children who are exposed to family and community violence present with a greater frequency of internalising and ...
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(Sage, 2023-03)Depression is a significant mental health issue affecting university students, especially those in their first year of study. Unfortunately, much of the research has focused on students in the adolescent stage of development. ...
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(Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)Postgraduate counselling psychology training at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa (SA), is done according to the researcher-practitioner model. An important aspect that is addressed during the unfolding of ...
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(Springer, 2020-12)This special issue presents work of the multidisciplinary and international Affective Archives Research Group that was established in 2016. The aim of the group was to reflect upon the multiple intersections between the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-01-25)Affirmative Action remains one of the most highly sensitive, emotive and hotly debated subjects in South Africa. It is nevertheless an important legislated program that needs to be fully researched and constructively debated ...
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(Sage, 2021-02)This article introduces the concept of African same-sex sexualities and gender diversity which refers to variation pertinent to gender expressions and identities, sexual expression and sexual orientation. The article ...
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(2013-05-24)In order to limit the expansion of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in South Africa, it is important to develop targeted prevention strategies. The voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) programme appears to be effective ...
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(Informa Healthcare, 2011-02)INTRODUCTION: Transactional sex among black South African women has become a mode of economic survival putting them at higher risk for HIV and other infectious disease. METHODS: In order to inform HIV interventions, drug ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)In South Africa, 1 in 3 people experience mental illness during their lifetime, at least 1 in 10 non-natural deaths are due to suicide, and poverty, crime, and HIV are common local psychosocial stressors. Despite this, it ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The purpose of this research study was to explore the dual career experiences of the TuksSport High School learner-athlete. Adolescent learner-athletes who had all transitioned from disadvantaged communities into the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Previous studies have mostly focused on racial relations between black and white racial groups. This study focused on relations between members of one racial group, the black race. In South Africa, the black race comprises ...
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