English: South African statistics indicate that students are dropping out of institutions of higher learning at an alarming rate. As a result, it is important that factors that ensure better throughput rates should be ...

English: Alzheimer’s disease has a great impact on both the caregiver and his or her patient. This study describes Alzheimer’s disease and the impact thereof on the caregiver of a person with Dementia of the Alzheimer’s ...

English: The passing away of a spouse is regarded as one of the most traumatic experiences any individual can encounter. The successful management of this loss, and the process of regaining psychological well-being places ...

English: The aim of this study was to investigate the needs experienced by the primary caregivers of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease from a fortological perspective. Both children and spouses as caregivers were ...

English: Dementia of the Alzheimer type is one of the most devastating diseases currently in existence, as it has an incapacitating effect on the sufferers’ most important functioning factors, namely their higher cortical ...

English: The aim of this study was the development and evaluation of an intervention programme aimed at promoting the psychological well-being of a group of adults. This research was motivated by the lack of scientifically ...

English: The diagnosis of chronic renal failure has, besides the physical influence, probably also far reaching consequences on the psychological well-being of these patients. Questions arising from this entail the following: ...

English: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between coping and resilience in adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems, and to describe it according to relevant literature and research. ...

English: The work of police officials is universally regarded as highly stressful. Police officials are often described as secondary victims because of their daily exposure to critical incident stressors. The unsuccessful ...

English: The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of the employment of the mother on the psychological well-being of her child. This was conducted by researching the difference between children of mothers ...