Integrating a girl-child orphaned by aids in a reconstituted family: pastoral and other challenges
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Authors
Mutasa, Gertrude Pazvichainda Stembile
Issue Date
2009-08-25T10:55:03Z
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
Anger , Unfinished business , Fear , Silent patients/Hidden patients/Silent voices , Pastoral challenges , Reconstituted family , Stepfamily , Replacement parent , Sibling disintegration , Bereavement , Orphan , VCT , HIV/AIDS
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Abstract
Five years ago at the age of 14, Rutendo Chaibva was double-orphaned by AIDS. A "Family Post Bereavement Property and Responsibilities Disbursement Committee" assigned her uncle Eric Gara as "replacement parent". Rutendo and her " replacement mother" Gerlinda were co-participants in the Participatory Action Research Study. It started in a therapeutic relationship after the family experienced some difficulties in integrating Rutendo into the reconstituted family. Both the therapy and research conversations explored and identified several pastoral and other challenges that militated against the integration process. Rutendo and Gerlinda's road was littered with, among others, minefields of silence and tears, secrecy, multiple losses, unresolved bereavement, unfinished business, anger, fear, and groping for Christian fellowship. It was concluded that personal, family, pastoral and other challenges, and, HIV/AIDS related complexities had militated against the integration process. At the end, Rutendo and Gerlinda acknowledged that therapy and the research processes had impacted positively on the integration process that improved significantly.
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Citation
Mutasa, Gertrude Pazvichainda Stembile (2009) Integrating a girl-child orphaned by aids in a reconstituted family: pastoral and other challenges, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1628>