Although interpersonal violence is the leading cause of nonnatural death among adolescents in South Africa, research is limited. This thesis examined homicides among adolescents (15-19 years) in the city of Johannesburg, ...

As the starting point for this thesis, I take my own experience of rape and how my social position as a ‘white’, middle class, womxn renders me out of place at a government rape clinic where the vast majority of patients ...

This study applied the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and its extension, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to the design of a workplace HIV/AIDS health promotion programme. The purpose of the study was to determine ...

In South Africa, intimate partner violence (IPV) has been associated with unfavourable outcomes for antiretroviral medication (ART) adherence, such as low treatment uptake, low ART adherence and the inadvertent virological ...

This research explores the meaning of the first and second-order therapeutic stances with reference to the therapist's professional and personal development. The dominant positivist paradigm was reflected in the therapist's ...

Migraine - with or without aura - is an enervating primary headache disorder that represents a heavy economic and social burden. The health-related quality of life of migraineurs is poor. The aim of this research was to ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is presented in literature as one of the major public health and socioeconomic problems that often results in disability and death. Literature further shows that families of individuals who ...

Disputes concerning care and contact arrangements for the minor children of divorcing couples present special challenges for professionals in the legal and psychological professions. Care and contact (custody) disputes, ...

Child pedestrian injury and mortality is an issue of significant public health concern in the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng, in South Africa. Since there is a paucity of studies in the last decade or more on fatal childhood ...

1994 saw the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, which was replaced by a ‘new’ democratic society. With the fall of the apartheid regime came the need to transform and (re)construct a South African identity ...