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Management of domestic violence: risk-based assessment and intervention guidelines with perpetrators of intimate violence
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The main goal of this study was to develop assessment and intervention guidelines that will provide practitioners with a framework to develop and implement batterer intervention programmes. The development of batterer ...
Crafting a meso practice course using elements of authentic learning for undergraduate social work students in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Many teaching and learning practices in higher education, including social work education in
South Africa, tend to be characterised by a transmission mode of instruction, whereby
knowledge moves from the expert educator ...
The development of a protocol for the management of child abuse and neglect
(1998)
The primary intent of this study was to seek solutions to the practical problems experienced by practitioners in their management of child abuse cases. A fundamental problem regarding the current management of child abuse ...
Psychosocial variables in the transmission of AIDS
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)
In the decade since first identified, the Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become a serious global disease. The nature of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, whereby a carrier may be ...
Guidelines for sustainable women co-operatives
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The number of women joining the formal waged labour market has been visibly increasing since the 1950s to become half of the employees in the developed economies (McAdam & Marlow, 2010; OECD, 2003). Women entrepreneurship ...
An analysis of livelihood of landfill waste pickers in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Due to high levels of unemployment many people in South Africa have sought work in the informal sector of the country's economy. The activities of landfill waste pickers therefore came about because of this. Landfill waste ...
The development and validation of a child in conflict with the law risk assessment scale for probation officers in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
During the planning phase of this project, the researcher intended to conduct a countrywide
South African study, as reflected in the title. However, the researcher experienced difficulty
with obtaining permission to ...
Development of practice guidelines to assist social workers to improve anti-oppressive practices and to facilitate social justice in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The researcher conducted a qualitative modified four step intervention research using the Design, and Development model. Human rights and Social Justice are central to the study, which advocates for the advancement of ...
A needs assessment of a group of at-risk youth in Mitchell's plain a discourse analytic approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
This study focused on determining and understanding the needs of a group of at-risk youth in Mitchell's Plain in order to identify the social competencies and basic life skills they require to enable them to cope with their ...