Coping and resilience occurs on a regular basis within the lives of children residing in at-risk communities. Coping refers to an action or behaviour on behalf of the child with the aim of diminishing the burden of ...

Little is known about the experience of South African adolescents’ relational well-being who are living in high-risk environments. There has been an increase in well-being research over the past three decades pointing to ...

Research on human resilience has attempted to uncover how certain individuals, even when faced with adverse working conditions can bounce back without serious psychological harm and continue their development. There is ...

This study forms a subsection of an inter-university research project regarding the resilience of children in late middle childhood, in the South African context. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether ...

The South African society is characterised by high levels of risk factors which can have a significantly negative impact on the development of children. The impact of risk factors from an early age can hinder intellectual ...

Historically, any stigma surrounding sexuality places a burden on individuals who do not self-identify as heterosexuals collectively referred to as "sexual minority". Sexual minority university students possess multiple ...

Resilience refers to a process involving positive outcomes in the face of exposure to significant adversity. The Social Ecology of Resilience Theory outlines four principles that guide how resilience processes are ...

Professional nurses who are employed in trauma units face many stressors in their work place. Yet they all cope with the stress in different ways. One of the methods that professional nurses use is to vent traumatic ...

Background: Professional nurses are given multiple roles and responsibilities and due to today’s pressured work environment of endless multi-tasking and multiple priorities, nurses run the risk that their caring presence ...

Background: The primary reason for nurses to enter this profession is because of their caring nature. Pressure, work load, having to juggle multiple roles and staff shortages; however, make them vulnerable to emotional ...