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Read me to resilience : exploring the use of cultural stories to boost the positive adjustment of children orphaned by AIDS
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
The study explored whether and how culturally sensitive stories can encourage resilience in young children orphaned by AIDS. The purpose of the investigation was allied to the paradigm of positive psychology, which focuses ...
Enabling white, Afrikaans–speaking adolescents toward post–divorce resilience: implications for educators
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2010)
Using rich qualitative data, we describe the ecosystemically-embedded protective antecedents that enabled 10 white, Afrikaans-speaking adolescents from divorced families towards resilience. The description both confirms ...
No strangers to adversity: resilience-promoting practices among South African women child protection social workers
(Sage, 2018)
Globally the well-being of child protection social workers (CPSWs) is placed at risk by the taxing nature of their profession. In response, there have been international calls for the prioritization of CPSWs’ resilience. ...
A "Day in the Lives" of Four Resilient Youths: Cultural Roots of Resilience
(SAGE Publications, 2011)
Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two Sesotho-speaking orphans in South Africa and two Mexican immigrants in Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots of resilience. We triangulate ...
A "Day in the lives" of four resilient youths: cultural roots of resilience
(SAGE Publications, 2011)
Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two
Sesotho-speaking orphans in South Africa and two Mexican immigrants in
Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots of resilience. We
triangulate ...
The relationship between services and resilience: a study of Sesotho–Speaking Youths
(UNISA Press, 2013)
Serious concerns are being raised about the well-being of South Africa’s young people. This article uses the Pathways to Resilience Youth Measure to examine the relationship between services and resilience through a ...
Supporting Lesotho teachers to develop resilience in the face of the HIV and AIDS pandemic
(Elsevier, 2012)
HIV and AIDS threaten to erode the wellbeing of teachers who are faced with an increasing number of children rendered vulnerable by the pandemic. This article explores the usefulness of a supportive group intervention, ...
Visual perspectives on majority-world adolescent thriving
(Wiley, 2013)
This paper offers socio-ecological, situated perspectives on adolescent resilience derived from an application of interpretive visual methodologies to deepen understanding of adaptive youth development in diverse majority-world ...
Visual methodology to build a resilient communitas
(Taylor & FrancisUnisa Press, 2010)
‘Resilient Educators’ (REds) is a group intervention programme designed to empower teachers affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and is research in progress. In 2007, 99 participants from various primary and high schools ...