Classifications in psychiatry can result in the reification of hypothetical approaches, arbitrary categorisation and social
injustice. This article applies a social constructivist approach to critique the DSM-5 as a ...
Mostert, Hendrik P.; Gordon, Charmaine; Kriegler, Susan(Sage, 2015-03)
Heteronormativity is a foundational source of human oppression, resulting in heterosexism and
homophobic attitudes, thus creating a hostile climate for non-heterosexual people. Despite a
constitution that prohibits ...
In South Africa, careless implementation of child psychiatry‟s biomedical model of
„mental disorder‟ could stigmatise children and youth who have been made vulnerable
by the lingering effects of apartheid - poverty and ...
Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Joubert, Ina; Prinsloo, Yolanda; Kriegler, Susan(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2014-06)
In Suid-Afrika word niemoedertaalonderrig op hoërskoolvlak bemoeilik deur leerders se beperkte vaardigheid in Engels as kognitiewe akademiese taal. Taalonderwysers aan hoërskole beskik nie oor die kundigheid om leerders ...
