Browsing Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Psychology) by Title
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The development of a contextually based programme designed to increase family resilience processes for families in a rural community on the West Coast South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Family environments can greatly affect the prospects of the children and their succeeding generations. South Africa's socio-political history and contextual circumstances continue to affect the structure and functioning ... -
The development of a screening tool for assessing emotional social competence in preschoolers as a domain of school readiness
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Literature identified that emotional/ social competence is under-emphasised in favour of cognitive domains in assessment of school readiness. Socio-cultural and risk factors in the South African context complicate school ... -
Topics, trends and silences in South African psychology 1948-1988 : ethnocentricism, crisis and liberatory echoes /
(University of the Western Cape, 1993)The deliberate and sometimes unwitting complicity of psychology with apartheid social formations has received little attention in the psycho-historical literature. This, study in an attempt to break the silence, offers a ... -
Understanding HELLP Syndrome in the South African context: a feminist study
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis is about HELLP Syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count in pregnancy): a devastating maternal hypertensive complication that results in multi-system changes that can rapidly deteriorate ...