• Intimate partner violence: impact of a faith-based biopsychosocio-spiritual approach to intervention 

  Bernardi, Delia Anastasia; Steyn, Francois (Routledge, 2025)

  The dominant prevention programs for intimate partner violence are based on Duluth-type models, which attribute patriarchy as the root cause of abusive behavior. The gender paradigm has dominated criminal justice policy ...
• Sadness in young children and the inadequate development of inner outer containment in childhood 

  Bezuidenhout, Christiaan; Moen, Melanie (University of the Free State, 2024-12)

  Violent crimes and domestic violence are notoriously high in South Africa, which leaves many children defenceless to struggle with emotions such as loneliness and sadness. The healthy development and socialisation of ...
• Going home to the gangsters : a preliminary study on the potential link between reintegration support and recidivism amongst female offenders 

  Thornton, Jessica Leigh (Emerald, 2024-03)

  PURPOSE – As the subject of female criminology in South Africa has only recently been dealt with in a qualitative manner, this paper aims to explore if there is a potential link between rehabilitation, reintegration support ...
• Complexities and challenges affecting the progress of community development in South Africa’s changing sociopolitical landscape 

  Gray, Mel; Lombard, A. (Antoinette) (Sage, 2024-09)

  This article shows the strategic, institutional approach the South African government took in creating and professionalising an occupational group—community development workers (CDWs), later community development practitioners ...
• Potential for digital gerontological social work with older persons in South African residential facilities 

  Geyer, Stephan; Crafford, Gretel (National Association of Social Workers (Zimbabwe), 2024)

  African social workers have not yet explored the potential of using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to render digital gerontological social work (DGSW) services. ICT holds potential for technology-assisted ...
• Pathways to maternal filicide among women incarcerated in Gauteng province in South Africa 

  Castlemaine, Melissa; Steyn, Francois (IFE Center for Psychological Studies, 2024-06)

  South African research on women who commit crime gained momentum over the past decade, yet little is known about their routes to criminality. This article contributes to the understanding of maternal filicide (the phenomenon ...
• Intimate partner violence : the criminal (in)justice system 

  Bernardi, Delia Anastasia (Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa, 2023-12)

  On 12 September 2021, South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the nation regarding the COVID-19 vaccination drive. The President placed almost equal weight on the importance of finding a resolution for “violence ...
• A comparison of loneliness and social support among South African older persons during a pandemic 

  Geyer, Stephan; Teater, Barbra (Unisa Press, 2024-05)

  Pandemics, such as the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in March 2020, have a negative impact on older persons’ (60 years and older) physical and mental health. Research on the effects of Covid-19 on older ...
• Structural inequalities in Namibia and South Africa : a critical social work perspective 

  Chiwara, Peggie (Unisa Press, 2024-05-27)

  Namibia and South Africa share land and maritime borders and the interrelated structural challenges of poverty and socio-economic inequalities amidst progressive economic growth that are rooted in their apartheid past and ...
• Disrupting gender-based violence : the role of private security 

  Oeschger, Sarah; Nunlall-Hiralal, Reema; Steyn, Francois (University of Salento, 2024)

  South Africa suffers from pervasive gender-based violence that finds expression in, amongst others, domestic and intimate partner violence, rape, sexual harassment, and femicide. While the government and civil society ...
• The roles of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa : a scoping review 

  Khosa, Jeffries Zwelithini; Gutura, Priscilla (Whiting and Birch, 2024-03)

  This paper discusses the role of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa. A literature review was undertaken of 14 qualitative studies conducted ...
• The experience of social workers providing mental health services at a mental health facility in Tshwane, South Africa 

  Poopedi, Lehlogonolo Kwena; Bila, Nontembeko Joyce (University of Stellenbosch, 2023)

  South Africa presents a high prevalence of mental health problems, with one in six South Africans being diagnosed with anxiety, depression and substance-use problems (excluding more severe conditions such as bipolar disorder ...
• A link to recidivism : excluding female offenders serving short sentences from rehabilitation programmes 

  Thornton, Jessica Leigh (Romanian Academy Francisc I Rainer Institute of Anthropology, 2023)

  OBJECTIVE. This study discusses the issue of rehabilitation and the lived reality of female offenders serving short-term sentences who are excluded from rehabilitation programmes. This exclusion ill-equips the women from ...
• Locked down in the rainbow nation : alleviating the loneliness of South African older persons 

  Geyer, Stephan; Chonody, Jill; Teater, Barbra (University of Stellenbosch, 2023-12-04)

  The literature on the biopsychosocial effects of COVID-19 on older persons has originated predominately from the Global North, with a dearth of studies focusing on the loneliness of older persons in the developing world, ...
• A pre-experimental design evaluation of brief harm reduction interventions to improve coping self-efficacy of carers of people with substance use disorder 

  Swanepoel, Ilze; Crafford, Gretel; Geyer, Lourens Stephan; Marcus, Tessa S. (BMC, 2023-06-15)

  BACKGROUND : Globally, the rise in the number of people living with a substance use disorder (SUD) carries a multitude of individual and social health implications for carers and their families, often impacting negatively ...
• Retiring in a prison cell : the South African sentenced older adult male offender 

  Booyens, Karen; Geyer, Lourens Stephan; Masenge, Andries (Sage, 2023-03)

  The purpose of this study was to create a profile of the sentenced older adult male offender incarcerated in South African prisons. The findings of this investigation are based on face-to-face surveys with 88 older adult ...
• Progress of the social service professions in South Africa's developmental social welfare system : social work, and child and youth care work 

  Gray, Mel; Lombard, A. (Antoinette) (Wiley, 2023-10)

  This paper examines the progress of the social service professions delivering developmental social welfare in South Africa, a subject we have followed closely over the last 20 years. Being policy-driven, developmental ...
• An exploration of the Vatsonga people’s markers of childhood 

  Simbine, Samuel Lisenga; Le Roux, Liana; Muridzo, Noel Garikai (Springer, 2023-06)

  Children are entitled to a host of rights cutting across the socio-economic and cultural fabric. These are contained in various international and regional conventions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ...
• A new path to cultivate human rights education at schools of social work in Africa from a decolonial lens 

  Giliomee, Cornelia Magrietha (Routledge, 2023)

  This article reports on a theoretical and empirical study exploring the nature and extent of human rights coverage in the curriculum in schools of social work at universities in Southern and East Africa. In a mixed ...
• Perceptions of nyaope users regarding therapeutic services at private in-patient treatment centres in Gauteng 

  Zwane, Noxolo Chairmaine Minenhle; Geyer, Lourens Stephan (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2023)

  National data indicate that young adults are increasingly vulnerable to the harmful use of nyaope – an illicit drug. Consequently, there is a need for appropriate treatment services. This study aimed to explore and describe ...

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