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771	An analysis of the attitudes and perceptions of church leaders towards their perceived leadership roles in HIV prevention in the Matabeleland Province of Zimbabwe Mzezewa, Venah 02 1900 (has links) This study investigated the attitudes of church leaders towards their perceived leadership roles in HIV prevention, using a sample of 85 clergy and lay leaders. Working from the premise that churches concentrate on care and support instead of HIV prevention, data were collected from Lutheran church leaders in Zimbabwe, using a questionnaire based on the constructs of the theory of reasoned action. The findings of this study suggest that the church is a potential source for HIV prevention. However, the capability to lead in HIV prevention was limited by barriers due to self-efficacy and cultural constraints, differences between communicator and audience, experiences and perceptions of the communicator and to some extent, institutional constraints. Programmers should focus on removing the barriers faced by the church leaders to improve their ability to lead in HIV prevention and strengthen prevention efforts. / Sociology / M.A. (Social Behaviour Studies in HIV/AIDS) Attitude Clergy Church leaders Doctrine Evangelical Lutheran Church HIV and AIDS HIV prevention Leadership roles Perception Theory of Reasoned Action 259.419697920096891
772	A pentecostal response to the challenges of HIV/AIDS in Tumahole Skhosana, Thabang Johannes 11 1900 (has links) This dissertation is a challenge to the Pentecostal churches, particularly, the Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Tumahole, to take an action in meeting the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS. This disease, HIV/AIDS, is the latest enemy to human life that the nations are faced with. In the newspapers like Sowetan, there is an article almost daily about HIV and AIDS. In this dissertation, I have tried to show shocking figures of how this disease is spreading in Africa. The seriousness of the disease, unlike other diseases, is its in curability. The secular organisations are far ahead of the churches in as far as the relevant programmes on combating HIV/AIDS are concerned. Despite these massive programmes, the disease is spreading like the wild fire. Deducing from this background, it is no longer the question of whether the Pentecostal churches have any role to play, but what specific role should the church play in this challenge. In this challenging times, many people look at the church as one of the most important institute that would play a positive role in bringing hope to the hopeless. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology (Urban Ministry)) AIDS: Acquired Immunedeficiency Syndrome ARC: AIDS Related Complex (sicknesses) AZT: Zidovudine Drug HIV: Human Immunedeficiency Virus TB: Tuberculosis TLC: Transitional Local Council PCP: Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia WHO: World Health Organisation 261.8321969792 Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects Church work with the sick Tumahole (Parys, South Africa)
773	A pentecostal response to the challenges of HIV/AIDS in Tumahole Skhosana, Thabang Johannes 11 1900 (has links) This dissertation is a challenge to the Pentecostal churches, particularly, the Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Tumahole, to take an action in meeting the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS. This disease, HIV/AIDS, is the latest enemy to human life that the nations are faced with. In the newspapers like Sowetan, there is an article almost daily about HIV and AIDS. In this dissertation, I have tried to show shocking figures of how this disease is spreading in Africa. The seriousness of the disease, unlike other diseases, is its in curability. The secular organisations are far ahead of the churches in as far as the relevant programmes on combating HIV/AIDS are concerned. Despite these massive programmes, the disease is spreading like the wild fire. Deducing from this background, it is no longer the question of whether the Pentecostal churches have any role to play, but what specific role should the church play in this challenge. In this challenging times, many people look at the church as one of the most important institute that would play a positive role in bringing hope to the hopeless. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology (Urban Ministry)) AIDS: Acquired Immunedeficiency Syndrome ARC: AIDS Related Complex (sicknesses) AZT: Zidovudine Drug HIV: Human Immunedeficiency Virus TB: Tuberculosis TLC: Transitional Local Council PCP: Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia WHO: World Health Organisation 261.8321969792 Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects Church work with the sick Tumahole (Parys, South Africa)
774	'Doing hope': mentoring with people doing care, working and dealing with trauma in a township in South Africa McLachlan, Christine 28 February 2007 (has links) Working in a township is a challenging but also rewarding way of living. In this dissertation the researcher, in collaboration with the co-searchers, explore ways to mentor one another as they learn how to deal with trauma, either by experiencing trauma directly or witnessing secondary trauma. This leads to new ways of being 'in the moment', coping with trauma, forming a community of care and learning to be in an aware and empowered position. The responsibility of practical theology and the commitment to pastoral care are explored in the context of theology, and spesifically feminist theology, contributing to 'do hope' in Mamelodi. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Post-modern discourse Research Music Education Ethics Township Doing hope Mentoring Co-searchers Community of care Feminist theology Pastoral care Witnessing Trauma G/god/dess Practical theology 253.53
775	Stories of survival in the wake of violence and abuse on the Cape Flats Wilkinson, Katheryn Lynn January 1900 (has links) The Cape Flats is characterised by widespread poverty, unemployment and frequent incidents of domestic and gang related violence. The presence of gangs in and around many of the schools in this area poses a serious problem for the community and the Western Cape Education Department. Schools are disrupted, while principals, teachers and learners are in constant fear and danger of gangsters' bullets. Families in these communities are exposed to chronic traumatisation from both gang and domestic violence. This qualitative study was concerned with exploring a narrative pastoral therapy approach to trauma counselling in schools. It focused specifically on crisis counselling as well as counselling with regard to loss and abuse. Informed by contextual and feminist theology, an action research model was used in this study. I documented my own developing practice by telling the stories of adults and children struggling against the trauma threatening to overwhelm their lives. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology -Pastoral Therapy) Trauma Abuse Gang violence Traumatic loss School based counselling Crisis counselling Spiritual counselling Narrative pastoral therapy Action research Feminist theology 259.2 Pastoral theology Gangs -- South Africa -- Cape Flats
776	Children's voices on bereavement and loss Van Duuren, Linda Anne 30 November 2002 (has links) In South Africa the death of a significant caregiver is a haunting possibility. Violence, crime, road accidents, HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes and substance abuse are household words that describe some of the causes of "untimely deaths" of parents who still have young, school-going children. These children carry their bereavement with them to school. The challenge of standing with them lies not only with their caregivers, but also with staff and children in our school community. In co-authoring conversations with children in our school who have experienced bereavement and loss, this qualitative study used research as co-search to uncover children's preferred knowledges and spiritualities about coping, hope, care and communities of concern. This study used therapy-as-research and participatory action research-as-therapy in what developed into a network of caring communities for the participants, caregivers and therapist. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Bereavement and loss Children's voices Narrative pastoral therapy Co-author Co-search Co-create Story books Therapy-as-research Participatory action research-as-therapy Co-creating communities of care 155.937083 Children and death Grief in children Bereavement in children Narrative therapy Pastoral counseling
777	Narrative pastoral practice at a primary school Basson, Nerine Celeste 01 January 2002 (has links) South African schools provide an enormous challenge for transformation towards inclusive and caring communities of learners, facilitators and caregivers. This qualitative study conducted at a primary school used narrative pastoral therapy-as-research and participatory action research-as-therapy to develop inclusive and caring practices. Co-authoring conversations with learners and caregivers from a diverse cultural and religious traditions and collaborating with facilitators challenged me to develop pastoral care as political care. This paved a way for future transformation of a school as a multi-religious community of care and respect. I engaged with participants in finding alternative ways of dealing with loss due to death of loved ones or separartion from caregivers. Children with chronic illness challenged their experiences of rejection and marginalisation at school by writing and producing a play while those whose voices were silenced chose other ways to inform learners and facilitators about their illness. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Cultural and religious inclusivity Eco-spirituality Pastoral care as political care Loss School-desk theology Childhood chronic illness Respectful listening Transformation Narrative pastoral therapy Primary school Commitment Understanding Acceptance Collaboration Co-author Co-search Co-create 616.8914 Narrative therapy Pastoral counseling Counseling -- Religious aspects Counseling in elementary education Children -- Counseling of Child psychotherapy
778	Storying widowhood in Shona culture Shumbamhini, Mercy 30 June 2005 (has links) A group of four widows undertook this research journey with me. They reflected on their widowhood experiences. Narrative and participatory practices guided our conversations. Participatory, contextual, postmodern, liberational feminist theology, poststructuralism and the social construction theory of reality informed this work. Reflective and summarising letters after each group meeting played a central part in the research. The letters were structured to make visible the "taken-for-granted" which informed the widows about who and what they are. The alternative stories of preferred widowhood practices that emerged during and between sessions were centralised in the letters. Elements of transformation, hope and empowerment surfaced as counter stories to the culture of oppression, providing the scaffolding for re-storying their lives. The group formed Chiedza Widows Association in order to support other widows who are still marginalised. / Practical Theology / (M.Th - Specialisation Pastoral Therapy)) Widowhood Shona culture Participatory approach to theology Deconstructing cultural practices Participatory action research Inheritance Pastoral care Community of care Widows' ritual Narrative pastoral practices Church work with widows -- Zimbabwe Widows -- Pastoral counseling of
779	Perceptions of personnel on police suicide and the role of a chaplain Mabe, Sello Edwin 02 1900 (has links) Suicide is a common phenomenon in all Police Agencies. Perceptions about police suicide, different Suicide Prevention Strategies and the Chaplain's role in preventing Police Suicide are researched. Data gathering employed two methods, namely:- A questionnaire to assess Perceptions of Personnel on Police Suicide and the Role of a Chaplain in the prevention thereof, and A case study to substantiate qualitative data. Information gathered through questionnaires was presented as percentages of personnel agreeing with statements. Results indicate that the following factors influence police perceptions on suicide:- Job characteristics, Lack of care and support, Low morale, Ineffective coping skills and Police culture. Recommendations are made on how Police Chaplains and SAPS Department can get involved in suicide prevention. This include Pastoral role fulfilment, in cooperation with the multidisciplinary effort by Employee Assistance Service (EAS). Recommendations are also made regarding future research on police suicide and chaplain's intervention. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology) Police Suicide Pastoral Care and Counselling Suicide Prevention Chaplain 362.280883632 Police -- Job stress -- South Africa Police -- Job stress -- South Africa Chaplains, Police -- South Africa Suicide -- South Africa -- Prevention Pastoral psychology -- South Africa
780	The relevance of pastoral counselling in South Africa: with reference to the South African Association for Pastoral Work Neethling, Ilze 11 1900 (has links) In South Africa, no occupational or professional councils for pastoral work exist as yet. In order to support pastoral counsellors in their negotiations to obtain professional status in this country, the presumed limitations and ineffectiveness of present mental health systems in South Africa is examined. Pastoral counselling as a possible national health resource is explored with reference to primary health care, freedom of choice, consumer rights, cost-effectiveness, spirituality, social change and reconciliation and multi-cultural application. Arguments are imbedded in relevant theory and supported by vignettes of suffering, survival, and redemption in spirituality. A postmodern, qualitative approach is used. Participants' narratives indicate that they have experienced healing through utilising their religion and spirituality. However, this study does not claim to provide conclusive proof that pastoral work is relevant in this country - it should be seen as part of a process which aims to develop pastoral counselling as a profession. / Practical Theology / M. TH. (Pastoral Therapy) Pastoral counselling Profession Religion Spirituality Postmodern epistemology Narratives Cost-effectiveness Freedom of choice Consumer rights Social change and reconciliation Multi-cultural approach 253.0968 Pastoral counseling -- South Africa Pastoral care Pastoral theology

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