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Toward a positive life beyond covid-19: Problem-solving appraisal as a resistance resource in the relationship between stress and well-being in students
(MDPI, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic is a major global stressor that has been associated with elevated
risk of negative mental health symptoms. As a helping profession, our main task should be identifying
factors that may shield ...
Teacher awareness of psychosocial support available as per the integrated school health policy in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2023)
In 2012, the South African government initiated the Integrated School
Health Policy (ISHP) to serve as a national guideline on providing school health and
support services from key stakeholders such as the Department of ...
The role of resilience in the relationship between role stress and psychological wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a crosssectional study
(BMC Psychology, 2023)
Background Stress resistance resources, such as social support and resilience, have been found to be important
in promoting psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, most prior research studies ...
The Resilience of South African School Teachers in the Time of COVID-19: Coping with Risk of Infection, Loneliness, and Anxiety
(NLM (Medline), 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated an overall increase in the global prevalence of mental
health disorders and psychological distress. However, against this backdrop, there was also evidence
of adaptation and coping, ...
Psychotraumatology of the war in Ukraine: The question of the psychological care of victims who are refugees or who remain in Ukraine
(Elsevier Masson, 2023)
The war in Ukraine is a major poly-traumatic event, which leads to massive population displacements. The question of the evaluation and psychological care of psychotraumatized people is an urgent matter. As many countries ...
Promoting well-being in the face of a pandemic: The role of sense of coherence and ego-resilience in the relationship between psychological distress and life satisfaction
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
COVID-19 has impacted negatively on the lives and academic activities of university students.
This has contributed to increasing levels of psychological distress among this population group.
Intrinsic and contextual ...
Service providers’ perceptions of substitute addictions in the Western Cape, South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
Globally little is known regarding substance use service providers’ perceptions of substitute behaviours
and this significant gap could hinder service provision and recovery outcomes. Semistructured
focus group discussions ...
Diversity training for health professionals: Preparedness to competently address intellectual disability in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
Diversity training for health professionals in South Africa has traditionally been conceptualized as
differences in gender, race or ethnicity, culture and sexual orientation. More recently physical
disability and mental ...
Fatherhood and high‑risk pregnancy: A scoping review
(Springer, 2023)
The experience of expectant parenthood is commensurate of relative angst and nervousness albeit one
of overall excitement and joy. However, when the pregnancy is regarded as high-risk, this experience changes dramatically
for ...
National-level key stakeholders’ perspectives regarding intervention progression and emerging challenges within the national stillbirth reduction response in Uganda
(Public Library of Science, 2023)
Implementation of evidence-based interventions was adopted to respond to the stillbirth burden
from the global campaigns. However, new challenges emerge in the process of rolling
out such interventions into routine ...