Cerebral palsy is a condition primarily defined by damage to the developing brain
primarily resulting in a physical impairment, although the affected individual may present
with concomitant impairments. The number of ...
Historically in South Africa, learners with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and who experienced a barrier to learning were either sent to a special school or did not attend school at all. The move towards an inclusive ...
Schizophrenia is said to be one of the most critical and severe mental illnesses affecting one
percent of the population globally (Torrey, 2001). The rationale for the present study is
stemmed from the lack of research ...
The study sought to explore what hearing teachers know and believe about teaching deaf pupils in the three residential schools for the deaf in Zimbabwe. This was done in order to understand the meaning these teachers attach ...
The literature suggests that one of the challenging aspects of working with adolescents is in engaging with them in the initial stages of counselling.Thus the focus of the study was the engagement process between client ...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are an important cause of morbidity in
children in developing countries and increasing antimicrobial resistance is reported in many
countries. This retrospective study describes the ...
This study explores women teachers’ lives to understand their experiences of teaching in South Africa today. Accountability and a culture of performativity have to come to dominate schooling in South Africa. Since then, ...
This study explores the perceptions of women suffering from vaginismus regarding their
condition, themselves and their significant relationships. The subjective world of women
suffering from vaginismus was therefore ...
Globally, access to maternal and child healthcare remains a fundamental human right for all,
regardless of an individual’s migration status (1). People migrate for a variety of reasons,
and this mobility brings forth ...
Domestic work in Zambia has its roots in the early colonial era as a source of cash incomes for the male workers. Females mostly stayed home to raise families and manage the households, eventually being incorporated into ...
This research report examines the experiences of a group of women-soldiers serving in
the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in relation to two major
sociological concerns. The first concern is the South African ...
Parental mental illness has been described as one of the major life events with negative effects that a person can experience. Mental illness affects roles and functioning among family members. The objective of the study ...
The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences and perceptions of adult
patients in relation to their rights and their involvement in clinical teaching sessions
in an academic hospital. A descriptive survey ...
This study is a contribution to an understanding of gender inequality which still exists within the education system of South Africa, despite laws to the contrary. It provides an understanding of the impact of not only ...
The World Health Organization states that childhood malnutrition remains a critical but preventable public health problem. The condition contributes to a large percentage of morbidity and mortality in children below five ...
Given the rise of intersubjective theory (Marzi, Hautman & Maestro, 2006) and contemporary formulations of countertransference as an integral aspect of the psychotherapeutic process (Cassorla, 2005; Marchon, 2006), ...
This study seeks to explore the challenges and difficulties faced by children raised by a
parent with bipolar disorder, with a specific focus on the experiences and memories of
daughters of these individuals. Bipolar ...
Background: Many people who have suffered from a neurological condition, including stroke, have an employed caregiver who cares for them within their home environment. Previous studies have investigated caregiving within ...
The purpose of this study was to establish the experiences of ex-offenders during reintegration into mainstream society in the Ekurhuleni region. The population, from which the study sample was drawn, comprised of adult ...
This study explored how young women experience father absence. Semi structured open-ended interviews were conducted with seven young women from the University of Witwatersrand to explore their experiences of growing up ...