Browsing by Author "De Villiers, Marleen"
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- ItemJeugdige verkragters : 'n profielstudie(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1993-03) De Villiers, Marleen; Malan, J. A.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Educational Psychology.ENGLISH SUMMARY: The aim of the study was to obtain a profile of juvenile rapists. A review of the literature concerning juvenile delinquency, the juvenile delinquent, rape and the rapist was undertaken. Emphasis was placed on a few factors which correlate with juvenile delinquency: gender, the family as factor, morality, social factors and scholastic factors. Factors which could contribute to rape were investigated. and characteristics of the rapist, as well as rapists were researched. The age types of A biographical study which included twenty-four subjects was undertaken. Comprehensive reports drawn up by social workers, school psychologists and Magistrates courts were used to comply information. Findings from the literature indicated that rapists are mostly below the age of 20 years. Findings from available biographical sources indicated that the subjects in this study were mostly below the age of 16 years. Findings from the literature indicated that the social, socio-economical, educational and psychological dimensions of rapists are in many ways adverse and defective. Indications from the findings of the biographical study were that the subjects function against the background of a low educational level (standard 1), poor socio-economic and social conditions (poverty, alcohol abuse and drug abuse), disfunctional family functioning and the identification with friends who maintain socially unacceptable behaviour (criminal activities, drug abuse and absence from school). This study is descriptive, rather than explanatory. In future research attention could be given to the developmental history and personality dynamics of juvenile rapists.
- ItemA transpersonal exploration of the mother-daughter relationship in transitional life cycles(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12) De Villiers, Marleen; Newmark, Rona; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Educational Psychology.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The mother-daughter relationship and the feminine principle in the process of individuation are explored in this study. The mother-daughter relationship as the focus of the study is presented as the womb where the stories and experiences are in gestation. In presenting this research as a transpersonal exploration, the principles and practices of transpersonal psychology and transpersonal research are used as the lens through which the process of research is viewed. The study tells the stories of adolescent daughters and their menopausal mothers and their lives as girls and women in transitional life cycles. It also tells the stories of the author's mother and of herself, and offers their shared experiences of being daughters, and remembering that they are also the daughters of daughters, the mothers of whom have passed away a long time ago. The stories are presented in the mode of a narrative inquiry, becoming an exploration in itself. The author looks into the stories of what has been written by those who have mapped the territory of the transpersonal and narrative landscapes in psychology, education, research and psychotherapy. A research collage of the mother-daughter relationship, transitional life cycles, and also of aspects of the feminine and the process of individuation is created. Images of alchemy, archetypes, mythological figures and archetypal goddesses are added to allow this collage to become its own story. The study combines research methods used in transpersonal research and narrative inquiry. Data were gathered by making use of journal writing, mandala drawings, interviews, visual imagery and photographs, collage, writing letters, personal documentation, dreamwork, working with words and personal mythology. Transpersonal principles such as meditation, reflection, mandala drawings, intuitive listening and so forth were applied in working with the data. The researcher also used principles of narrative inquiry to assist in the process of processing the information and finding the stories. The research findings that emerged indicate that a mother and daughter can hold up a mirror to each other in order to see that there are experiences of abandonment and dependency in their relationship; another mother and daughter pair related to each other from a basis of limiting self-experience; and yet another mother and her daughter were seen to have a relationship that contains powerful potential for individuation through the process of growth and transformation. These findings may be relevant to the therapeutic and educational spheres of psychology, in training and in application. This research journey is an adventure that can be seen as symbolically walking the labyrinth, following the circular path towards the centre, and then back again, out into life. This journey is symbolic of the process of individuation as based on the mythology of the serpent Ouroboros that swallows its tail in order to become whole. The process of alchemy in psychology forms the container for this journey into wholeness. Like Theseus, beloved of Ariadne of antiquity, I took the golden thread in hand and stepped into the labyrinth. The journey could begin …