English: Both international and national research, indicate that adolescent suicide rates have steadily increased during the past few decades. As a result, the importance of investigations concerning risk and protective ...

English: International and national studies indicate that substance use and abuse are considered important psychosocial issues among adolescents. It is therefore critical to investigate the risk and protection factors that ...

English: The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore the dynamics of the parenting experience as it relates to parenting adolescents, with the specific aim of exploring and achieving an understanding ...

English: The recently published National Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys highlighted an alarming increase in adolescent suicidal behaviour in South Africa. The death of a young person has a profound psychological and social ...

South African adolescents - like their peers around the world – struggle to keep their emotional health intact. These problems are revealed by the youths’ involvement in risky activities such as suicidal behaviour. The ...

English: Adolescence is a dynamic life phase in which the formation of an identity is prioritised. The family is one of the primary structures supporting adolescents in reaching various developmental tasks, including forming ...

Adolescence is considered as a period filled with significant physical, emotional, cognitive and social changes and challenges. Some adolescents might become so overwhelmed by the extensive internal and external transitions ...

English: International and national studies indicate that exposure to traumatic events, substance use and abuse are considered important psychosocial issues among adolescents. It is therefore critical to investigate the ...

English: Through exploratory and descriptive research into the importance and incidence of Youth Theatre as genre, this study revealed that the changing political situation after 1994, the White paper on Arts, Culture and ...

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between perceived parenting styles and resilience in adolescence. The respondents were a sample of 360 English speaking, multi-cultural subjects, with a mean ...