English: The current South African adolescent cohort grew up in a decade of sociopolitical transformation, a period which has been accompanied by inevitable and continuous instability in the economic, education and health ...

Colonial and apartheid planning left a legacy of rigid, control-oriented, top-down spatial planning and land use management and fragmented and inequitable settlements. Despite many policies and the interim Development ...

English: Resilience and trauma exposure are well researched topics. There is extensive knowledge about the nature of traumatic events that adolescents are exposed to, as well as how they have coped with these experiences. ...

English: Adolescents are exposed to a variety of developmental and social challenges on a daily basis. Those who find it difficult to cope with these demands tend to present with behavioural and psychological problems. ...

English: South African middle-adolescents are confronted daily with developmental and environmental challenges as well as risk factors. Consequently, there is a need for the empowerment and development of resiliency amongst ...

English: There has been an exponential uptake of information and communication technology (ICT) in the past decade. The majority of empirical research focuses on the possible adverse effects of this escalating ICT use on ...

English: The aim of the study was to explore and describe the experience of psychosocial protective factors in the lives of female human trafficking victims, who have been forced into involuntary prostitution. Human ...

English: The aim of this study was to address the dearth of South African literature on women who divorce in midlife with resilience. This study offers women’s perspectives on how they reconstructed their lives with ...