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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
A critical reflection on the participatory action process involved in the development of a congnitive-behavioural based counselling intervention programme for youth living with HIV/AIDS in a rural South African town
(Sage, 2011)
South Africa currently lacks HIV counselling interventions that are youth-specific and
that meet the psychosocial needs of young people living with HIV/AIDS. Indigenous
strategies and interventions need to be developed ...
Enabling white, Afrikaans-speaking adolescents towards post-divorce resilience: implications for educators
(Education Association 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 ...
A critical reflection on the participatory action process involved in the develoment of a congnitive–behavioural based Counselling Intervention Programme for youth living with HIV/AIDS in a rural South African town
(SAGE Publications, 2011)
South Africa currently lacks HIV counselling interventions that are youth-specific and that meet the psychosocial needs of young people living with HIV/AIDS. Indigenous strategies and interventions need to be developed ...
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, ...
Using video observation and photo elicitation interviews to understand obscured processes in the lives of youth resilience
(Sage publications, 2014)
Despite the increased effort to understand resilience processes in the lives of youth, the homogeneity of a largely westernized concept needs to be challenged in studies by incorporating meanings of resilience more relevant ...