Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 383-410). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ67930.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-222). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 72 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-48).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 44 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-37).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale Divinity School, 2008. / Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale Divinity School, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

D.Cur. / It was established during research that I have done for my master’s degree that therapists experience secondary traumatisation in a specific private psychiatric clinic when they listen to the trauma filled stories of their clients. This often led to the therapist’s personal and professional disintegration. The main purpose of this research was to describe, operationalise and evaluate a model for the advanced psychiatric nurse practitioner to facilitate the mental health of therapists who experience secondary traumatisation in a specific private psychiatric clinic in South Africa. I used a qualitative, descriptive, contextual and theory-generating research design to achieve the above purpose. The development of the model consisted of four steps. Step one consisted of concept analysis that included the identification, classification and defining of the central, essential and relational concepts in the model. During concept analysis, facilitation of wholeness was identified as the most relevant concept for the model instead of mental health. It was evident that personal disintegration became the specified concept and focussed aspect in terms of secondary traumatisation in this research project. Step two consisted of a description of how the identified and defined central concepts interrelate with each other as part of the model. During step three, the model to facilitate wholeness in therapists with personal disintegration due to secondary traumatisation in a specific private psychiatric clinic was described. The structure of the model was described in terms of its purpose, assumptions and context. Definitions of the central concepts, as well as the relationship statements between the central and essential concepts, were described. The structure of the model was also described in terms of a visual representation that included the dynamic and interactive narrative process of deconstruction, choosing of alternatives and celebration.

The poems in this collection are in search of. They are digging through the debris of memory, of memory blurred by trauma or degraded by time or worn thin from retrieval, from repeated examination—an ongoing attempt to apprehend. They are poems of internalized violence, addiction, domestic upheaval, sexual abuse, assault, abandonment, separation. They are also poems of adoption, of the overlap between stories, of roots and more roots, of tangled histories, of the point of rupture being the point of origination. As such, they are unsure of how to proceed, how to present themselves: they are self-conscious poems, anxious to communicate yet at times unable to break free of their own spiraling repetitions: the ritualized performance of pain as both an attempt to speak back to suffering as well as unintended proliferation of such. Compulsion. Depression. Suicidal ideation. Of course what we are talking about is the longevity of grief, its many mutations. How we learn to recognize it for what it is. What we can do with it.

Dissertation (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.