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`n Gestaltspelterapeutiese proses om selfbewussyn by die vroeë adolessent aan te spreek / A Gestalt play therapeutic process to address self-awareness in the pre-adolescentSmit, Mathilda 30 November 2004 (has links)
Text in Afrikaans / During pre-adolescence, whilst the transition from primary to high school normally takes place, the child faces drastic physical and emotional changes.
Emotional intelligence is important in order to answer to demands in this stage and can be addressed and enhanced.
Self-awareness (ability to identify own emotions, relate to others, being aware of personal strengths and weaknesses) is not addressed sufficiently. The research problem has been the use of a gestalt therapeutic process to address self-awareness during this stage, and the goal of the study, to explore the value of such a process.
Qualitative research directed the process, which included literature studies, interviews with parents of respondents and eight gestalt therapeutic sessions with four pre-adolescents.
Various gestalt play therapeutic techniques and -activities have been utilized. The processing and integration of the results of the empirical study, made it possible to explore and note what the value of a gestalt therapeutic process is on self-awareness in the pre-adolescent. Therefore the goal of the study has been successfully reached. / Die vroee adolessent ondergaan ingrypende en drastiese fisiese
veranderinge en emosionele skommelinge. Dit is ook in hierdie tydsgleuf
dat hy van laer- na hoerskool vorder. Belangrike keuses moet gemaak
word te midde van groter druk vanaf die portuurgroep en 'n strewe na
outonomie en onafhanklikheid van ouers. Dit is 'n ontwikkelingstadium
tussen kindwees en volwassenheid. Ten einde aan die eise te voldoen, is
emosionele intelligensie van kardinale belang.
Emosionele intelligensie kan aangeleer en verbeter word en hou verband
met die kind se aanwending van sy selfbewussyn om onder andere sy eie
emosies korrek waar te neem, oor te dra en kennis oor persoonlike swaken
sterk punte te bekom.
Die studie is gerig deur die uitgangspunt dat selfbewussyn wat die heel
basiese komponent van emosionele intelligensie is, nie voldoende by die
vroee adolessent aangespreek word om hom toe te rus vir die eise tydens
die oorgangsfase vanaf laer- na hoerskool nie. Die benutting van 'n
gestaltspelterapeutiese proses om selfbewussyn by die vroee adolessent
aan te spreek is as die navorsingsprobleem geformuleer. Die doel van die
studie was dus om die benuttingswaarde van 'n gestaltspelterapeutiese
proses om die selfbewussyn by die vroee adolessent aan te spreek, te
verken en te beskryf.
Ten einde in hierdie doel te kon slaag, is die navorsingsproses deur
middel van kwalitatiewe navorsing gerig. Die volgende doelwitte is
geformuleer, naamlik : Eerstens om 'n literatuurstudie te doen oor die
vroee adolessent, selfbewussyn as basiese komponent van emosionele
intelligensie en die benuttingsmoontlikhede van die gestaltspelterapeutiese
benadering om selfbewussyn by die vroee adolessent aan te
spreek .. Tweedens is semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude met die ouer(s)
as respondente gevoer met behulp van 'n selfontwerpte vraelys. Derdens
is vier gevallestudies waargeneem tydens agt onderhoudsituasies elk, om
die selfbewussyn van die vroee adolessent aan te spreek.
Verskeie gestaltspelterapeutiese vorme-, tegnieke en -aktiwiteite is vir die
proses benut. Vanuit die prosessering en integrering van die bevindinge
wat tydens die empiriese ondersoek verkry is, kon die data vir praktiese
doeleindes toegepas word en is die benutting van 'n
gestaltspelterapeutiese proses om die vroee adolessent se selfbewussyn
aan te spreek, verken en beskryf. Daar is dus in die doel van die
ondersoek geslaag, naamlik die verkenning en beskrywing van die
benuttingswaarde van 'n gestaltspelterapeutiese proses ten einde
selfbewussyn by die vroee adolessent aan te spreek. / Social work / M. Diac. (Spelterapie)
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Xhosa teenage boys' experiences during the period prior to circumcision ritual in East London in the Eastern Cape ProvinceTenge, Stembele 08 1900 (has links)
Xhosa people practise the circumcision ritual. The exciting period is during the pre- circumcision. It is also the time when Xhosa teenage boys experience various problems associated with the ritual. The main purpose of the study was to explore and describe Xhosa teenage boys' experiences of the period prior to the circumcision ritual in East London in the Eastern Cape Province. A descriptive, exploratory and descriptive qualitative research design was followed and 28 participants volunteered to participate.
In-depth phenomenological focus group interviews were conducted. Data analysis revealed two themes: social pressure on teenage Xhosa boys associated with the ritual, and depression associated with the treatment of teenage Xhosa boys by their communities. The study recommends that all stakeholders be involved in the performance of the ritual. A limitation of the study was failure to include stakeholders. The researcher recommends further research to involve all stakeholders of the ritual. / Health Studies / M.A. (Public Health)
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The role of parenting styles in the acquisition of responsibility in adolescentsPreston, Lynn Doreen 30 November 2004 (has links)
The aim of this study was to ascertain the role of parental influence and, in particular, the parenting style on the development of academic responsibility in adolescence. The measurement instrument used to gauge the level of responsibility an adolescent attains was the evaluation of the individual's academic results in relation to a specific parenting style. Academic achievements were seen as a reflection of the individual's positive or negative behaviour towards his/her academic responsibilities and requirements. The research was done by means of a literature study and empirical research.
The initial sample of participants consisted of adolescents between the age of fifteen and seventeen years. These individuals completed a questionnaire, which required their biographic details, their perceptions of their parents' parenting styles and their academic results. Two v learners were selected to participate in an in-depth study. One of the learners achieved academically, the other was a poor academic achiever. These individual's parenting styles to which they had been subjected, as well as their academic performances were evaluated. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Specialising in Guidance & Counselling)
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Investigating the educational psychologist's support to parents and teachers of the adolescent with acneRadloff, Catherina Adriana 02 1900 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to develop guidelines to enable the members of acne sufferers' support networks to become better sources of practical, emotional and social support.
A literature study and an empirical investigation were done to investigate which factors could enable members of the acne sufferer’s support network to become better sources of support.
A questionnaire was developed as an aid to identify the perceptions and emotions of acne sufferers, which was published on a website, (www.acnediaries.co.za) specifically designed for this purpose. Two semi-structured interviews with acne sufferers were also done to enrich the findings.
Results of the study identified several guidelines for parents, teachers, siblings, friends and boyfriends or girlfriends of acne sufferers to enable them to give support to teenagers suffering from acne. / Further Teacher Education / M. Ed. (Guidance and Counselling)
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An educational psychological perspective on self-disclosure in adolescent interpersonal relationshipsPhetla, Rabi Joseph 11 1900 (has links)
Adolescents, like all individuals, have a need to belong. Consequently, during the
adolescent period, adolescents battle with the establishment and maintenance of
meaningful relationships. Most of them, unfortunately, do not succeed to establish and
maintain such relationships because of a lack of skills to do so. It appears, therefore, that
If adolescents are to enhance their interpersonal relationships so as to enable themselves
to self-actualize, they need to be taught interpersonal skills. One of the skills that they
should be taught is the self-disclosure.
As such, the first part of the literature study was devoted to the discussion of self disclosure.
The study of literature revealed that self-disclosure has many aspects, the
main ones being the nature of the self-disclosure content, self-discloser target, and
concealment. In the second part of the literature study, attention was paid to the nature
of interpersonal relationships with special reference to adolescents' relationships. The
malysis of interpersonal relationships revealed that the establishment and maintenance,
is well as the collapse of interpersonal relationships follow a particular pattern.
Data concerning perceptions, beliefs and attitudes held by adolescents towards selflish
closure in their interpersonal relationships was gathered by means of various
Techniques. Parents' perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards their adolescent children's
perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards self-disclosure in interpersonal relationships
were also assessed. The results of the empirical study revealed that adolescents hold selfdefeating
perceptions, beliefs and attitudes that make it difficult for them to handle selflisclosure
in ways that ought to enhance their interpersonal relationships so as to enable
themselves to self-actualize. These perceptions, beliefs and attitudes may not change easily as their parents, the most important component of the adolescents' significant
others, seem to be modelling self-defeating perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards self-disclosure.
Lastly, a few guidelines to assist adolescents to handle self-disclosure in ways that ought
to enhance their interpersonal relationships so as to enable themselves to self-actualize
were given. / Thesis (D. Ed.)
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Herdefiniering van identiteit as 'n proses van wording tydens die adolessent se verlies van 'n geliefdeVan der Merwe, Susanna Johanna 04 1900 (has links)
Text in Afrikaans / This study is aimed at the development of strategies for therapists to be used with adolescents and late adolescents (15 to 20 years of age) who have lost a loved one. This will be done by focussing on the redefining of identity as a way of becoming. The starting point of the study is to be found in the problem formulation that the process of becoming of adolescents who have suffered the loss of a loved one, may be blocked because they do not have the necessary skills to overcome the loss. The second problem is that therapists do not have the necessary skills to empower these adolescents so that the redefining of identity can be achieved. / Social work / D. Diac. (Spelterapie)
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Zimbabwean adolescents’ experience of their parents’ absence due to DiasporaFilippa, Olga Maddalena 03 1900 (has links)
As a result of the Zimbabwean socio-economic and political crisis many have joined the Diaspora leaving their children behind in the care of others. Qualitative research in the form of in-depth semi-structured interviews carried out with seventeen adolescent Zimbabwean Diaspora orphans evidenced a number of emerging themes that illuminate how these adolescents view their situation, such as symptomology of depression, feelings of abandonment and rejection, conflicting feelings, lack of social support, the importance of communication, role changes and additions, materialism, challenges presented by relationships with caregivers, and vulnerability to sexual abuse and molestation. Most of the themes do not appear to be country specific but are shared by adolescent Diaspora orphans world-wide. Defence and coping mechanisms employed by these adolescents to cope with parental absence were also identified. Recommendations aimed at optimising their integration in society and suggestions for further research in this field conclude this study. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)
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Resilience therapy : a group intervention programme to promote the psychological wellness of adolescents at riskMacFarlane, L. C. (Linda Carol) 06 1900 (has links)
This study focuses on the feasibility of inculcating resilience skills in adolescents using
the forum of group therapy. Resilience equals the ability to surmount life's obstacles and
continue towards self-actualisation, regardless. The study was initiated by the writer's
masters thesis, which delineated the profile and characteristics of resilient adolescents.
The writer believed that an intervention programme to effect resilience was overdue.
Adolescents were generally afforded therapy re-actively. If intervention was to be an
exercise in wellness, rather than in repair, a pro-active intervention programme targeting
resilience had to be designed.
This study focuses on the provision of such a programme. The intervention programme is
semi-structured and spans twelve one hour sessions. The intervention programme
specifically targets adolescents, given the amplified vulnerability associated with this
developmental phase. Should resilience be sabotaged during this phase of life, the
repercussions are thought to be lasting.
Group therapy was chosen as the forum for intervention, given its suitability to
adolescents. Adolescents are peer-group-minded, suggesting that therapeutic intervention
by means of group work, would be ideal, if competently lead.
The personal attributes impacting on the ability to surmount life's challenges are targeted
as an interrelated whole by the group therapy intervention programme involving an
experimental group of six adolescents, who appear to have turned their backs on self-
actualisation. A control group, which receives no intervention, provides a contrasting
profile. The study aims to provide educational psychologists with an intervention
programme and an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of resilience, so that
vulnerable youngsters might ultimately be therapeutically assisted to choose a more
resilient attitude and behaviour.
The results of the study suggest the feasibility of inculcating resilience skills. Four of the
six group members in the experimental group show marked improvement. Of the
remaining two members, one shows some amelioration of vulnerability. Furthermore,
results suggest that personal choice underlies resilience, implying that resilience can be
coached. Additionally, it would seem that schools can play a leading role in this coaching
by facilitating intervention groups. / Psychology of Education / D. Ed. (Psychology of Education)
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Educational guidance for parents who are under pressure from their adolescent childrenMarais, Amanda Claudia 11 1900 (has links)
Most adolescents place pressure on their parents. The pressure varies, so there must be factors that contribute to the variance. An important objective of the investigation was to determine such factors from the parent’s side and from the adolescent’s side. It was also important to determine the most important factors in family functioning, and in the wider social context that affect the placement of pressure on parents by adolescents. A sample of 177 high school adolescents and their parents was used. Variables such as age, gender, family structure, working circumstances of parents, birth order position of adolescents, peer pressure, the parent-adolescent relationship, self-concept and personality were included in the study. The results indicate that the pressure that parents experience is associated with parental variables rather than adolescent variables. Parental self-concept, personality, and the parent-adolescent relationship (from the parent’s side) explained almost 63% of the variance in the pressure that parents experience. The conclusion can be made that it is not adolescents who deliberately plan to place their parents under pressure, but rather parents who make themselves vulnerable to such a situation. Any remedy or guidance programme will have to focus primarily on the parent, and the success of such a programme will depend on the way in which it supports the self-concept of the parent. / Psychology of Education / D. Ed. (Psychology of Education)
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Young mothers’ perceptions of teenage pregnancy in Vredendal : a social cognitivie learning approachJulie, Victoria Justine 01 1900 (has links)
M.A. (Research Consultation) / Adolescent and sexual reproductive health has been identified as among the most important
health and development priorities by the South African development (Department of Health,
1995; African National Congress, 1994). The South African government, like many governments
in the sub-Saharan region view with concern the region’s rapid population growth and high birth
rates particularly among adolescents. This study investigated the perceptions of young mothers
regarding teenage pregnancy. Eight participants who live in Vredendal, a predominantly
Coloured area in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, were selected for interviewing
using convenient sampling. Transcripts of unstructured interviews were analysed using thematic
content analysis. The findings of the study suggest that young mothers initially perceive teenage
pregnancy negatively. These perceptions progressively changes to a positive one. Furthermore,
the results indicate a limited awareness of available preventative interventions. Results further
show participants tend to experience their relationships with significant others as positive. / Psychology
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