In South Africa today many adolescents are faced with having to cope with their parents' divorce. There are many risks that occur when adolescents are faced with divorce. Of late research has suggested that parental divorce ...

The purpose of this study was to identify and understand the social-ecological resources which encouraged resilient Basotho youth in the rural areas of the Thabo Mofutsanyana district of the Free State province towards ...

High prevalence rates of sexual assault perpetrated against women are well documented, both nationally and internationally. Although this type of trauma can lead to numerous adverse long-term effects, some survivors ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only affected people's health, but also their economic stability. Numerous methods have been followed to combat the spread of the virus. One of the methods followed by the South African ...

Informal settlements are a major planning challenge and have become a central policy issue in democratic South Africa. In spite of the various local, provincial, national and international initiatives to promote the creation ...

Child protection social workers are assigned statutory authority to protect vulnerable children and to uphold their rights. This group of professionals are at risk for several negative outcomes due to various workplace ...

Numerous studies have found that certain job demands - the most prevalent type being the demands relating to employees’ roles - can have an intense influence on their well-being as well as their work-related outcomes. ...

This study investigated the relationship between occupational stress, resilience and psychological well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of occupational stress and resilience on psychological ...

Child abuse is a known phenomenon reported around the globe, and social workers in the child protection sector are at the forefront of protecting children subjected to the different types of abuse. Child protection social ...

Psychological capital is a positive state-like capacity that is defined as an individual's positive psychological state of development and is characterized by "having confidence (self-efficacy) to take on and put in the ...