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Department of Psychology
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Conceptualising psycho-emotional aspects of disablist discrimination and impairment : towards a psychoanalytically informed disability studies

Watermeyer, Brian Paul (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the 1970s, the international disability movement has galvanised around the "social model" of disability, as an adversarial response to traditional, individualising "medical" accounts of disablement. ...
Human occupation in the context of chronic poverty and psychiatric disability

Duncan, Madeleine (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ABSTRACT: This study, within the fields of occupational therapy and occupational science, describes the occupations of isiXhosa-speaking individuals with longstanding histories of mental illness living in chronic poverty. ...
The identification of resilience in, and the development of a corresponding intervention programme for families with a parent living with major depressive disorder

Bester, Carin (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Major Depressive Disorder is a prevalent psychiatric illness that poses critical risk factors to families. Risk factors associated with depression are widely researched, but limited South African and ...
Inside the black box of a successful parent-infant intervention in a South African informal settlement : mothers' and counsellors’ accounts of the process

Landman, Mireille (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Extensive research over the past 30 years has shown that reliable, sensitive, responsive and empathic care of the infant by the mother or mother-substitute in the early months facilitates the development ...
A programme to enhance resilience in families in which a child has a hearing loss

Ahlert, Ingrid Anita (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to identify and enhance specific resilience qualities that help protect and support families in overcoming the adversity of having a child with a hearing impairment. The study was ...