Browsing NWU Official by Author "Theron, Linda C."
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A critical review of studies of South African youth resilience, 1990–2008
Theron, Linda C.; Theron, Adam M.C. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010)Given the growing emphasis in research and service provision on strengths rather than deficits, the focus on youth support in the South African Children’s Act of 2005 and the lack of educational, therapeutic and other ... -
Resilience in the face of fragile X syndrome
Fourie, Chantel L.; Theron, Linda C. (Sage publication, 2012)In this article, we communicate transformative findings from a case study on the resilience of a young woman with fragile X syndrome (FXS), a genetic condition involving mental impairment and physical, emotional, and ... -
Toward an African definition of resilience: a rural South African cummunity’s view of resilient Basotho youth
Theron, Linda C.; Theron, Adam M.C.; Malindi, Macalane J. (Sage Publications, 2013)Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures. This emerging understanding has urged ...