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Management of domestic violence: risk-based assessment and intervention guidelines with perpetrators of intimate violence.Londt, Marcel P January 2004 (has links)
The main goal of this study was to develop assessment and intervention guidelines that will provide practitioners with a framework to develop and implement batterer intervention programmes. The development of batterer intervention programmes must be informed by risk-based assessment and the study has identified this as a priority. This priority was informed by the popular notions that batterer intervention by itself, is futile and that intervention efforts were misdirected and useless. The author was of the opinion that if specific risk markers were identified, the batterer intervention efforts could be a tool to influence the values, beliefs and dangerous behaviours of abusive men. This study attempted to formally identify those risk factors that should be considered with batterers so that appropriate guidelines for assessment and intervention could result.
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HIV/AIDS education and lifeskills training : a need in the corporate world/workplace in the WCP study projectMminele, Monanana Margaret 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: HIV/AIDS has been seen as a thorn in the Corporate World's flesh. It is destroying
the workforce like a swarm of locust on a wheat field. The Government Departmental
Sectors are no exceptions. This paper has been written after a through project that
was undertaken at the Department of Transport and Public Works in Cape Town. It
was found that there is a great need for HIV/AIDS Education and Life skills Training
amongst all Government Departments. The objectives of the researcher were also
based on the ILO's document and our South African Labour Law. The employees at 7
(Seven) District Offices were educated and workshoped on HIV/AIDS Education. It
was impossible to have all three Employee Assistant Programmes conducted within 7
(Seven) months of the project. The programmes for HIV/AIDS Education and
Training entailed Pre-Awareness, Awareness and Post-Awareness. Only the Pre-
Awareness programme was completed with a bit of Awareness was covered. In the
workplace situation, time means money and it seems as if less time is allocated to the
health part of the employees. Common and better methods in facilitating for
HIV/AIDS Education and Trainings were by "Cascade Model, On-Job-Training
(OJT) or Front Line Training (FLT) and Workshop Sessions" seem to be more
appropriate, yielding better communication skills between the employees and
employers.
A simple questionnaire was constructed on the basis that the sample group was
workshopped. The response was great and constructive comments were received from
the employees, for example a question was "Do you find it good to celebrate the 09th -
15th February: Condom Week; 16th May: International AIDS Candle Memorial Day
and 01st December: World AIDS Day"? Answer: YES - It creates awareness and
unites people for the same course. It became interesting to the researcher in noticing
how HIV/AIDS Education and Life Skills Training(HAELST) is very much needed in
both Corporate/Private Sectors and Government Departments.
In conclusion, recommendations are suggested to all Government Departmental and
Private Sectors in HIV/AIDS Education and Training. The ball remains in the
Corporate World to apply them as a tool to avoid loosing well qualified and skilful
employees because of HIV/AIDS. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING:
Die doel van hierdie navorsing was om die noodsaaklikheid van opleiding aan
regeringsinstansies in MIV/Vigs en lewensvaardighede te beklemtoon. Die studie het
op die Departement van Vervoer en Openbare Sake gefokus. Werknemers van 7
distrikskantore het werkswinkels in die verband bygewoon. Die werkswinkels het
hoofsaaklik op voor-bewustheid, bewustheid en na-bewustheid van MIV/Vigs
gefokus. Die data is deur middel van ‘n vraelys ingesamel wat die proefpersone na
afloop van die werkswinkel voltooi het.
Dit is bevind dat daar ‘n geweldige behoefte vir MIV/Vigs en lewensvaardigheid
opleiding by privaat- sowel as regeringsinstansies is. Die aanbeveling is dat die
instansies hul werknemers in die verband moet oplei op te verhoed dat hul
gekwalifiseerde en vaardige werknemers as gevolg van MIV/Vigs verloor.
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Misdaadvoorkomingsmodel vir motorvoertuigdiefstalDu Plessis, Willem Jacobus 09 1900 (has links)
Text in Afrikaans / Die aard en omvang van motorvoertuigdiefstal in Suid-Afrika, het die ondersoeker aangespoor om 'n studie van die verskynsel soos dit in die Pretoria-Sentraal polisiestasiegebied voorkom, te loods. Data wat uit die dokumentere studie van gebeure ingesamel is, is rekenkundig gekwantifiseer en het besondere misdaadpatrone wat
betrekking het op motordiefstal aan die lig gebring. Dit het tot die formulering van 'n multidissiplinere misdaadvoorkomingsbestuursmodel bygedra. Vanwee die erns van die verskynsel en die ekonomiese implikasies
wat dit meebring, moet daar op 'n voortdurende grondslag navorsing uitgevoer word ten einde metodes te verskaf om die omvang van motorvoertuigdiefstal te verminder. Die owerheid moet 'n belangrike rol speel in die oplossing van die probleem. / The nature and extent of motorvehicle theft in South Africa encouraged the researcher to pilot a study into the phenomenon as it manifests itself at the Pretoria-Central police station area. Data gathered, in a documentary study of events, has been arithmetically quantified and reveal particular crime patterns relating to motorcar theft. This contributed to the formulation of a multidisciplinary crime prevention management model. Due to the seriousness of the phenomenon and the economic implications it causes, in depth research needs to be undertaken on a continuous basis to establish means to reduce the extent of motorvehicle theft. The authorities should play an important role in resolving the problem. / Criminology and Security Science / M.A. (Kriminologie)
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'n Handves van menseregte vir Suid-Afrika as instrument ter bekamping van geweld22 October 2015 (has links)
M.A. (National Strategy) / Please refer to full text to view abstract
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Maternal attitudes of black women towards condom usage by their teenagers in light of HIV and AIDSNkuna, Tintswalo 27 September 2013 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Human and Community Development, 2005.
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HIV-related sexual risk behaviour, parenting styles and socio-economic status in South African adolescents.Westcott, Alexandra 20 March 2013 (has links)
With increasing rates of HIV prevalence in South Africa, research focus is on examining factors that
may affect HIV-related sexual risk behaviour, especially in adolescents. Two such factors, parenting
styles and socio-economic status (SES) have been highlighted. Despite remarkable consistence in
parenting style research, with the authoritative parenting style reliably associated with positive
outcomes, the applicability of this model in diverse contexts is questioned given that the majority of
this research was conducted in White, middle-class populations. Both parenting practices and SES
have produced some inconsistent results in relation to sexual risk behaviours; where results have
been dependable, they have failed to account for the mechanisms influencing such relationships.
The current study aimed to determine if the documented parenting styles – and SES - sexual risk
behaviour relationships could be found in 366 South African adolescents. The study also explored
parenting style as a moderator and/or a mediator in the SES – sexual risk behaviour relationship, and
SES as a moderator on the parenting style – sexual risk behaviour model. The participants
completed adapted self report questionnaires (Parenting Style Index (PSI) and Adolescent Sexual
Risk Behaviour Questionnaire) and a self-developed biographical questionnaire. Both the parenting
styles – sexual risk behaviour and the SES – sexual risk behaviour relationships were found (r =-.21
and -.24 respectively, p <.0001). While the mediation model was disproven, SES and parenting style
were both found to act as moderators (F6, 363=2.15, p=.0469). These results are valuable in terms of
providing knowledge that may help to develop relevant and effective sexual risk behaviour
intervention programmes, as well as adding richness to the current fields of parenting style, and
sexual risk behaviour research.
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An investigation of bullying between public and private schools: incidence, nature and interventionsSubjee, Shaakera January 2017 (has links)
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Educational Psychology), 2017 / The growing epidemic of bullying is one that warrants urgent deference. When considering the repercussions of this issue in the South African context specifically, it is essential that a high level of criticality is taken into account. This is mainly due to South Africa’s rich historical background and the country’s urgency to protect and respect the basic human rights of all individuals in the country (Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention; and the Department of Basic Education, 2012). According to our Bill of Rights, “everyone has the right to be free from all forms of violence, on the part of either the government or other sources; not to be tortured in any way; and not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman or degrading way” (CJCP & DBE, 2012). Any act or behaviour which goes against these essential human rights thus results in grave ramifications such as the infringement of human rights. The purpose of this study was thus to investigate the prevalence, nature, and intervention surrounding the issue of bullying in South African high schools. More specifically, this study aimed to explore the possible differences between the prevalence, nature, and intervention in government/public and private high schools. In addition, the possible differences between gender and the issue of bullying were further investigated. The study employed the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire in order to find possible associations between the two independent variables (type of school and gender); and the issue of bullying. The total sample comprised of 358 grade eight to eleven learners from one private school and one government school in Johannesburg. The statistical analyses were done by means of frequencies and cross-tabulations using the chi-square statistical test with school type and gender as independent variables. The overall results on the prevalence of bullying indicate that 27.7% of high school learners have experienced bullying in school. Neither the type of school nor the gender of the learner was found to have a significant impact on the prevalence of bullying. In addition, the current study found that verbal bullying is most commonly experienced by the learners, followed by social bullying. Common areas for bullying behaviour are the playground and the classroom (with and without the teacher present). Boys have been found to partake, as well, as experience bullying more than girls. Teacher and learner intervention are commonly reported, whereas adult intervention is not seen as a means of support for learners. / XL2018
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An evaluation of the social support network component of the pilot CHAMP study in Kwadedangendlale, South Africa.Colvelle, Nkosikhona N. January 2005 (has links)
This study explored the social networks and social support of parents in Embo and Molweni, two villages of KwaDedangendlale outside Durban. The study is part of a larger South African project, CHAMP-SA (Collaborative HN/AIDS Adolescent Mental Health Project). CHAMP-SA is an adaptation of CHAMP which originated in the USA. CHAMP works with pre-adolescents and their families in addressing parenting issues with the aim of re-establishing the adult protective shield for these children. The current study evaluates the social network component of the pilot phase of CHAMP-SA. The first part of the current study was quantitative and employed a repeated measures quasi-experimental design intervention with both the experimental and control groups. The second, qualitative part used individual interviews to interrogate the results of the quantitative data. Content analysis was used to determine
what factors impeded or enhanced the process of social networking. Bronfenbrenner's Systemic Ecological Theoretical Model was used to understand these at a personal, interpersonal and community level. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2005.
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'They have ears but they cannot hear' : listening and talking as HIV prevention : a new approach to HIV and AIDS campaigns at three of the universities in KwaZulu-Natal.Kunda, Lengwe John-Eudes. January 2008 (has links)
Sexuality is made relevant in the way language is used as a matter of the identity of a group or individuals. Sex, for human beings, is not merely instinctive behaviour. It is meaningful-cultural behaviour and as such is semiotically loaded with meaning. Listening and talking about sex highlights conventions, taken-for-granted assumptions about the way things have to be done. Language as the most powerful representational system shapes our understanding of what we do and how we do them in relation to sex. Our understanding of sexual scripts about the sexuality of a particular group of people is through language as a signifying practice. The study of listening and talking is not merely an investigation of how sex is talked about, but how respondents enact sexuality and sexual identity vis-à-vis its linguistically loaded forms of representations in a variety of discourse genres. Representation and its inherent process of signification draws on lived experiences and the daily talk of people in interaction. A theoretical perspective is presented not as a model to be tested, but as testimony to the rich literature on the nature and function of language as a political arena, semiotically loaded with meanings that are taken for granted. It is concluded that the appropriation of cultural myths is encoded in language and as such language is a legitimate area of inquiry especially in understanding sexual scripts in the context HIV/AIDS. The study engages reported high risk sexual encounters such as multiple and concurrent partnerships, as well as unsafe sex practices which have been identified in literature as fanning the embers of the epidemic. Ideologies influencing developing communication campaigns in light of these discourses become a serious challenge as the conventional basis for such campaigns is in socio-cognitive theories, few of which can be assumed to apply with regard to the discursive representations of sexual practices and the inherent risks. Drawing on a cross-sectional survey of 1400 students on seven campuses, conceptually triangulated via focused-ethnography, listening analysis and discourse analysis, this research examines perceptions, interpretations, attitudes, and practices of sexuality and HIV/AIDS. The research is a multi-method and inter-disciplinary approach located within cultural studies to interrogate the gap between knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour modification in the light of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This research discusses these findings and offers a critical appraisal of sexual behaviour in the context of ABC (Abstain, Be faithful, Condomise) as ideologically encoded in cultural and relational myths. I found that students are sexually active with reported multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships. Postgraduate students were less likely to report having had used a condom at their last coital encounter compared with the often younger undergraduate students. Condom use continues to be a norm in the universities surveyed. This is truer for students who reported multiple sexual partnerships. Amongst the dominant scripts that came out in the ethnographic inquiry are: sex as uncontrollable biological drive; females are responsible for safe sex practices; strong social scripts elevate male sexual prowess and show disdain for female affirmative sexualities, risk is discounted using a form of post modern fatalism (resistance to regulation); and physical status, based on appearance of a possible partner, is used to select ‘sexually safe’ partners. I have concluded that a deeper understanding of the cultural and sexual scripts obtained from students is critical for appropriate design and implementation of interventions aimed at stemming the tide of the HIV epidemic. I have also demonstrated that interventions that only emphasise the rational dimensions of human behaviour are more likely to miss their target audience as sex is more than a choice of Cartesian rationality (linear choice). / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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Male adolescents' experiences of violence in an urban, private, secondary school in Kwazulu Natal.Doig, Ryan. January 2005 (has links)
This research was undertaken from an ecosystemic perspective and aimed to explore how male adolescents from diverse racial and cultural groups experienced violence in an urban, private, secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal. The first part of the dissertation consists of a brief introductory overview of the study incorporating background and aim of the research, problem statement, clarification of terminology, research methodology and course of study. A comprehensive literature review, encompassing detailed explanations of the ecosystemic perspective, incorporates a study of violence and its multiple facets, components and interacting contributory systems. Furthermore, a specific rationalization of South African violence and male adolescent violence in South African secondary schools is analytically unpacked. In line with the researcher's epistemology, the methodology utilised was qualitative in nature and the phenomenological interview technique was employed to explore the experiences of male adolescents between the ages of 13 and 19 years. The responses of the participants were subjected to a thematic analysis. The imperative themes that emerged from the data analysis procedure are outlined in the results chapter and it is apparent from the responses of the participants that issues of masculinity, gender-role socialisation, male identity formation and peer pressure are significant contributory factors influencing the prevalence of violence in South African secondary schools. The results are therefore discussed with reference to the literature review and expressly associated with the South African context. Finally a conclusion is offered together with reflections of the researcher and recommendations for educators. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2005.
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