Whereas intricately interlaced on one another like the “two sides of a coin”, Health and Social Development dimension remains less focused upon as the society‟s principal priority traction. The overwhelming emphasis ...

The purpose of this study was to explore immigration and the vulnerability of immigrants to mental health problems with a focus on international students in a small town in Australia. A sample of 97 international ...

Social workers rendering services to children and adolescents with mental health disorders in Child and Youth Care Centres play a significant role in supporting these children. They liaise with various stakeholders and ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most severe social challenges confronting South African society. The purpose of the study was to explore the psychosocial impact of gender-based violence among silenced and ...

Delinquency and substance use impacts negatively on adolescent health and various facets of their individual well-being, therefore translating to negative impact on the economy of many governments irrespective of development ...

This thesis reports on the development, application and testing of a rehabilitation model for carceral settings. The study attempted to integrate evidence-based principles from criminology, community psychology, and ...

Postgraduate students enrolled for a psychology honours qualification should be prepared with particular soft skills to enhance coping amidst the challenging South African world of work. Psychological flexibility, which ...

COVID-19 affected education in many ways. As a response, various strategies were introduced to ensure students’ access to education, including online education. For most of the students, fulltime online education brought ...

Background: Food insecurity and malnutrition has been reported to have a strong connection with human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV); this is more pervasive in Sub Saharan Africa including Ethiopia. In this study, we ...

Background: The increasing burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in developing countries is driving attention to palliative care services. Identifcation of disease-specifc symptoms of concern and their prevalence ...