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Illiteracy among caregivers: implications for children’s educational and social development
(UNISA Press, 2017)
The ability of primary caregivers to provide a healthy, nurturing and stimulating environment for their children is essential for children’s educational advancement and emotional development. However, caregivers who live ...
Experiences of secondary trauma amongst spouses of emergency service personnel
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)
South African emergency service personnel (ESP) regularly face traumatic, stressful and life-threatening situations which influences them physically, emotionally and psychologically. They are exposed to an unpredictable ...
Social work and food security: Case study on the nutritional capabilities of the landfill waste pickers in South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
Food security (or the lack of it) has a direct impact on people’s well-being and is of great concern to many disciplines. The study on which the article is based used Drèze and Sen’s ‘nutritional capability’ concept as a ...
The link between parenting approaches and health behavior: a systematic review
(Routledge, 2017)
The familial home environment, where parenting takes place, plays an
important role in the health behaviors that children and adolescents
engage in and has implications on health and well-being in later life.
Lifestyle-related ...
The effects of biological fathers’ incarceration on adolescent children and the challenges of absentee biological fathers
(Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa (CRIMSA), 2017)
In western cultures, invested in a discourse of heteronormativity, biological fathers are the ‘breadwinners’ of families, and mothers, the ‘caregivers’. In societies with this dominant discourse, the traditional family ...
Exploring participatory parity in higher education: Experiences of social work students
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)
This study uses the principle of participatory parity (PP) espoused by Fraser (2008, 2009) for exploring social work students’ experiences of enabling and constraining factors in advancing their engagement with and involvement ...
An exploration of learning styles used by social work students: a systematic review
(UNISA Press, 2017)
Social work educators are faced with the challenge of ensuring that students from diverse backgrounds are fully equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills. However, to be effective social work educators, the educator ...
Homeless in Observatory, Cape Town through the lens of Max-Neef's Fundamental Human Needs taxonomy
(SUN, 2017)
The suburb of Observatory, also affectionately known as ''Obs'', is one of the older suburbs of the City of Cape Town, home to multiple cultures, a student population from the University of Cape Town, a variety of churches, ...
Informality and the context of reception in South Africa's new immigrant destinations
(Wiley, 2017)
This study examines the context of reception for Zimbabwean migrants who are
engaged in South Africa's informal economy. It seeks to contribute to two areas of
migration scholarship: (a) the emergence of new immigrant ...
Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs on contributing factors among low back pain patients attending outpatient physiotherapy treatment in Malawi
(2017)
BACKGROUND: Low back pain (LBP) affects many people globally. Its aetiology is not clear.
Patients lack knowledge of its contributing factors and have negative perception about their
LBP. This study aimed to identify ...