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James House BEST Proactive Parenting Programme: experiences of South African parents
(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), 2019)
The parent-child relationship often becomes challenging during the period of adolescence and it is community-based organisations which take on the role of educating parents to improve the parent-adolescent relationship. ...
Fostering family resilience: A community participatory action research perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Theoretically, increasing family resilience, may contribute to an increase the resilience of communities. However families in South Africa experience challenges to their resilience, often owing to a variety of historic, ...
The contribution of parental factors to adolescents’ deviant behaviour in South Africa: Evidence from three rural communities in South Africa
(MDPI, 2022)
Challenges associated with adolescents are prevalent in South African societies. During
the adolescence stage, children may become involved in deviant behaviour. Although a significant
number of studies have focused on ...
South African higher education institutions at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic: Sense-making and lessons learnt
(Frontiers, 2022)
After the unprecedented changes experienced in higher education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a need to integrate initial thoughts and reflective experience to decide on the way forward. This study aimed to reflect ...
Peer pressure and social acceptability between hookah pipe users and non-users among a sample of South African adolescents
(South African Medical Association, 2022)
Hookah pipe smoking is a high-risk phenomenon which is widely seen as an acceptable social practice, but the extent of its acceptability is not very clear among South African youth, nor is the influence of peers very clear. ...
Unani Tibb practitioners’ perceptions and attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care in Unani Tibb practice in South Africa
(BMC, 2023)
Unani Tibb is an Arabic term which means Greek medicine. It is an ancient holistic medical system
based on the healing theories of Hippocrates, Galen and Ibn Sina (Avicenna). Despite this, spirituality and spiritual ...
Exploring the role of race in social cohesion in two rural communities of South Africa
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2023)
Globally, race and social cohesion in urban areas have received significant research focus.
However, it may appear that scholars have not paid adequate attention to the role of race
as a facilitator or barrier to social ...