This phenomenological study aimed to explore the factors impeding or encouraging parental participation through the lived experiences of eight parents of children with autism who are currently receiving applied behavior analysis-based treatment.
ABSTRACT Introduction The increasing population of overweight and obese women world-wide is a major public health concern now reaching epidemic proportions. Two thirds of these women are in the reproductive age which has critical consequences for fetal and maternal health. Maternal obesity has been shown to be associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as hypertension, diabetes , infections such a urinary tract infections (UTI), preterm labor, increased cesarean delivery; and poor neonat...
In this thesis, deliberate self-harm (DSH) is defined as the deliberate, culturally undesirable, self-performed, instantaneous, and direct destruction of physical tissue that is lowlethal and free of overdose, self-poisoning, or suicidal intent. DSH is a major mental health condition that affects young people all over the world (Hawton et al., 2006; De Leo & Heller, 2004), and it is linked to a number of negative psychological and social consequences (DOnofrio, 2007; Hawton et al., 2006). Thi...
ABSTRACT A conceptual framework was developed in the context of community psychology for the development of a training programme in rape crisis intervention for lay therapists who were members of the Rape Crisis Organisation in Cape Town, South Africa. This framework was structured around the use of lay therapists, crisis intervention (including crisis intervention with rape victims) and consultation. The interrelationships of these three ·aspects were explored. The programme consi...
ABSTRACT The current study investigated the role of trauma exposure, emotion regulation, and neuroticism on sleep quality among postgraduate students. Four hundred and four postgraduate students (males=228, females=176) participated in the study. The students’ ages ranged from 22 years to 51years, with a mean age of30.60 years (SD=6.84).Participants completed the Harvard trauma Questionnaire (HTQ), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Neuroticism Subscale of Big Five Inventory ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the role of personality type, gender and locality in self-report of HIV/AIDS stigmatization. Three hundred (300) participants living with HIV/AIDS (126 males and 174 females) were selected for the study. They were individually administered the Type A behaviour scale and HIV/AIDS-Related stigmatization questionnaire. The design of the study was a cross-sectional survey design. A threeway analysis of variance (ANOVA) involving two levels of personality types, tw...