Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Subject "Abuse"

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    • Abused women's understandings of intimate partner violence and the link to intimate femicide 

      Dekel, Bianca; Andipatin, Michelle (Institute for qualitative research, 2016)
      In this article, we explore how women survivors of intimate partner violence understand the abuse they endured and the possible link to intimate femicide. This is a qualitative study based on a feminist poststructuralist ...

    • Intimate partner violence amongst undergraduate nursing students 

      Kordom, A.; Julie, Hester; Arunachallam, Sathasivan (Unisa press, 2014)
      Intimate partner violence (IPV) is reported to be rife among the student population at tertiary institutions and the general population. Yet the abuse is under diagnosed by nurses in health care settings. Research ...

    • Mediation of detention trauma via perceived locus of control 

      Perkel, Adrian K. (South African Journal of Psychology, 1990)
      Political detention in South Africa has been documented to contain conditions inherently detrimental to psychological health. Reports indicate high levels of stress reponses associated with conditions of solitary confinement, ...