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Exploring male practitioners’ perceptions, experiences and challenges in early childhood development
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Gender balance is a major area of interest within the field of social work studies. Many males who are interested in venturing into careers that are associated with early childhood development have been not offered enough ...
Aspirations, expectations and challenges of youth that have aged out of foster care in Bonteheuwel, Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Foster care is perceived to be the best and most widely applied form of alternative care for children apart from their maternal home, because it most often occurs within the family context and is intended to offer safety ...
An exploration of emotion-focused parenting of parents living in low and high socioeconomic communities, Kleinmond, Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
A parent is responsible for caregiving to a child and is a significant other with whom a child
has a long-term, unique, and irreplaceable emotional bond. Emotion-focused parenting is
described as a practice in which an ...
Exploring the practical implementation of two of the evidence-based parenting programmes in a small rural community.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Many parents in South Africa face difficult obstacles when it comes to parenting. Evidence-based
parenting programmes are a key to success to help parents to work in a more positive way with
their children. In Touwsranten, ...
An exploration of the management systems supporting learners affected by HIVAIDS in schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Learners affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
(HIV/AIDS), are particularly vulnerable to poor nutrition, mental and physical health abuse, and
poverty. This negatively impacts ...
An exploration of parental connection and the human capability of emotion in the first 1000 days of life
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Emotions play an important part in our well-being and connections with others. It contributes to the connection between the caregiver and the baby in the first 1000 days. Experiences provided through the interactions between ...
Exploring the dating experiences of young adult males who have had childhood exposure to family violence (fv)
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Family violence (FV) is recognized globally as one of the most widespread social problems. In most of these cases, children are unseen and vulnerable secondary victims despite the parental effort to reduce the likelihood ...
Gender masculinities of present fathers: Perceptions, experiences and challenges of fathers living with children
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Fathers play a key role in the life of a child in a family. In South Africa, statistics indicate that 71%
of children who have a male adult living in the family, only 36% live with their biological parents.
This predicament ...
Exploring whether family involvement and support can assist in substance abuse treatment of relatives
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Whilst abuse of substances creates issues at the individual level, its influence has always extended to the entire family of the substance abuser. It has been found that stress and the inability of the person to distinguish ...
Exploring the help-seeking behaviour of mothers with premature babies in public sector hospitals
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Help-seeking behaviour is important so that an individual does not reach a stage of helplessness and hopelessness. For mothers, who had premature babies, this becomes very important because the mother is potentially ...