Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Even though dyspraxia is a fairly new and unknown disorder, especially in South Africa, a fair amount of research has been conducted on what this condition entails, its causes and symptoms, as well as the resources available to deal with children with dyspraxia. However, research on the emotions, frustrations and concerns of the parents of children with dyspraxia is not as readily available. Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological perspective was used as it identifies the family’s diferrent systems where-in it functions. This can possibly identify and bring to attention the existing support systems within the family’s community. The research methodology of this study is qualitative research within the interpretive paradigm. The researcher made use of two case studies as this research explored a specific phenomenon. Through purposive sampling, four parents of children with dyspraxia was identified as participants. The research question guiding this study explores the personal experiences of the parents regarding their children’s dyspraxia. Individual semi-structured interviews and reflective journals were used as methods of data collection. According to existing literature, parents of children with disorders experience their children’s disorders on an emotional, physical as well as social level. The data analysis have shown that parents of children with dyspraxia also experience their children’s condition on these three levels. From this study, it was concluded that parents’ knowledge of dyspraxia, their living environment, the measure of support and resources available, as well as the number of children in the family are all factors that influence their experiences across the three aforementioned levels. The research provides insight into the parents’ experiences and the importance of adequate support for parents, and should promote general awareness and acknowledgement of dyspraxia as a significant barrier in a child’s development. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Alhoewel dispraksie veral in Suid-Afrika nog ’n betreklik nuwe en onbekende versteuring is, is daar al heelwat navorsing gedoen oor wat dié toestand behels, hoe dit ontstaan, met watter simptome dit gepaardgaan, en die beskikbare hulpbronne om ʼn kind met dispraksie te hanteer. Tog is navorsing oor die emosies, frustrasies en bekommernisse van die ouers van kinders met dispraksie nie ewe geredelik beskikbaar nie. Bronfenbrenner se bio-ekologiese teorie is gebruik, omdat dit die gesin se verskeie sisteme identifiseer waarbinne hulle funksioneer. Sodoende kan moontlike ondersteuning in die gesin se gemeenskap geïdentifiseer en bewerkstellig word. Die navorsingsmetodologie van hierdie studie is kwalitatiewe navorsing binne ʼn interpretatiewe paradigma. ʼn Spesifieke fenomeen is ondersoek en die navorser het gebruik gemaak van twee gevallestudies. Die deelnemers, soos geïdentifiseer deur ʼn doelgerigte steekproef, is vier ouers van kinders met dispraksie. Die navorsingsvraag wat hierdie studie lei handel oor die ouers se ervarings en persoonlike belewings rakende hul kinders se dispraksie. Individuele, semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude, sowel as reflektiewe joernale, is as metodes van data-insameling gebruik. Volgens bestaande literatuur beleef ouers van ʼn kind met ʼn versteuring hul kinders se toestand op ʼn emosionele, fisiese én sosiale vlak. Die data analise het gedui dat ook ouers van kinders met dispraksie hul kinders se toestand op hierdie drie vlakke ervaar. Die studie het ook daarop gedui dat ouers se kennis van dispraksie, die omgewing waar hulle woon, die mate van ondersteuning en hulpbronne waaroor hulle beskik, sowel as die getal kinders in die gesin, alles faktore is wat hul ervarings op voormelde drie vlakke beïnvloed. Die navorsing bied insig in die ouers se ervarings en die noodsaaklikheid van genoegsame ondersteuning vir ouers, en behoort algemene bewustheid en erkenning van dispraksie as ʼn hindernis vir ʼn kind se ontwikkeling te bevorder.

Previous research indicates that those with a history of abuse have an increased risk to experience subsequent traumatic events. This study utilized a convenience sample of undergraduate students to examine the reaction of those with a history of abuse to subsequent traumatic experiences. In addition, the study assessed the level of posttraumatic growth an individual experiences following childhood abuse. The level of posttraumatic growth was examined to determine if the growth allowed for participants to better handle successive traumas. Those with a history of abuse experienced higher levels of symptomology following a successive traumatic event. Results did not support the hypothesis that among those with a history of abuse, lower levels of posttraumatic growth would predict higher levels of symptoms following a later trauma. Implications and limitations of the study, as well as directions for future research are discussed.

O estudo teve por objetivo avaliar as relações entre o uso de drogas, atos infracionais e papéis ocupacionais entre adolescentes. Trata-se de um estudo transversal realizado com 150 adolescentes que estavam cumprindo medida socioeducativa (MSE) em Liberdade Assistida (LA). O Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20), o Teen Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) e a Lista de Identificação de Papéis Ocupacionais (LIPO) foram utilizados. Os adolescentes eram de ambos os sexos, raça negra, evangélicos, baixo nível de escolaridade, família monoparental com cinco ou mais pessoas na família, envolvimento no tráfico de drogas e desconhecimento da renda familiar. As drogas mais usadas foram a maconha e o álcool (últimos 30 dias). O uso recente de tabaco, inalantes e paiero predominou com nível de problema moderado de drogas. Diferenciaram-se por consumirem álcool (últimos 30 dias) e concomitante com drogas, gasto com o uso de bebidas alcoólicas. Observou-se ainda o uso recente de maconha (63%), paiero (30%) e inalantes (42%) na vida. O papel ocupacional mais desempenhado no passado foi amigo (90,7%), no presente (89,3%); e para o futuro (98%), a família. O mais prejudicado foi o de estudante, já que os índices de abandono escolar são elevados (86,4% no Ensino Médio), com uso de inalantes (69,4%) e problema médio/moderado de drogas (68,3%). Os papéis ocupacionais de continuidade foram serviços domésticos, relações com amigos, membros da família, religiosos (evangélicos 47,1%) e atividades de passatempo (mulheres 81,4%). Todavia, pretendiam mudanças em atividades voluntárias, religiosas, tráfico de drogas e participação em organizações. Os resultados podem contribuir para a elaboração de propostas de trabalhos preventivos perante o uso de drogas entre os adolescentes em MSE na LA. Principalmente, em relação ao papel ocupacional de estudante, uma vez que limita que o adolescente exerça de forma produtiva os papéis ocupacionais socialmente esperados nessa etapa do ciclo de vida / This study was aimed to evaluate the relationships among drug use, infractions and occupational roles among adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study performed with 150 adolescents serving social-educational measures (SEM) in Assisted Freedom (AF). We used the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20), the Teen Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) and the Lista de Identificação de Papéis Ocupacionais (LIPO). Adolescents were males and females, black race, evangelicals, with low schooling level, single-parent family with five or more people in the household, engagement in drug trafficking and unknown family income. The most commonly used drugs were marijuana and alcohol (last 30 days). The recent use of tobacco, inhalants and straw cigarette has predominated with moderate level of drug problem. They were differentiated by consuming alcohol (last 30 days) concomitantly with illegal drugs, spent with the use of alcoholic beverages. Moreover, we have observed the recent use of marijuana (63%), straw cigarette (30%) and inhalants (42%) in their lives. The most performed occupational role in the past was friend (90.7%), in the present (89.3%); and for the future (98%), the family. The most undermined was student, since school dropout rates are high (86.4% in High School), with the use of inhalants (69.4%) and medium/moderate drug problem (68.3%). The occupational roles of continuity were domestic services, relationships with friends, family members, religious (evangelicals 47.1%) and hobby activities (women 81.4%). However, they longed to achieve changes in voluntary and religious activities, drug trafficking and participation in organizations. The results may contribute to the elaboration of proposals for preventive works concerning the use of drugs among adolescents undergoing SEM in AF. Especially, in relation to the occupational role of student, since it hinders the adolescent from exercising productively the socially expected occupational roles in this stage of the life cycle

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<p><strong>Bakgrund- </strong>Prostatacancer är en av de vanligaste cancerformerna i Sverige och nästan 34 % av alla fall av cancer hos män är prostatacancer. Radikal prostatektomi är en behandling som innebär att hela prostatan och intilliggande körtlar tas bort. Prostatektomi kan ha negativ påverkan på livskvaliteten p.g.a. ingreppets komplikationer.</p><p><strong>Syfte- </strong>att belysa hur män upplever sin livskvalitet efter att ha genomgått en prostatektomi.</p><p><strong>Metod- </strong>En systematisk litteraturstudie. Artiklar har sökts fram i elektroniska databaser. Tio artiklar har granskats enligt kriterier för kvalitetsgranskning där nio kvalificerats och används i resultatet. Inspireras av kvalitativ analys och identifierat olika teman i texten. Vi kom fram till fyra kategorier som vi redovisar resultaten ifrån: fysiska, psykiska, sociala och omvårdnadsaspekter.</p><p><strong>Resultat- </strong>Sexualitet, relationer, männens upplevelse av självkänsla och kontroll över sin kropp samt informationsbrist var de viktigaste områdena där livskvaliteten påverkades negativt.</p><p><strong>Slutsats</strong>- Radikal prostatektomi innebar en stor förändrig för männens livskvalitet och deras liv. Vi tror att mer forskning behövs inom ämnesområdet för att få en djupare förståelse för hur männen upplever sin livskvalitet efter operationen.</p>

Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Evidence suggests that routine screening of primary care patients for exposure to traumatic life events, and particularly assaultive trauma, may yield both clinical and cost benefits for healthcare systems (e.g., Green, Epstein, Krupnick, & Rowland, 1997; Lecrubier, 2004). However, although advocated by authorities, such screening has yet to be widely adopted. A sample of female university healthcare patients (N = 339) was assessed for exposure to trauma in order to examine several unaddressed issues that may diminish the clinical utility of screening for trauma in primary care patients. First, because the length of the traditional trauma history assessment makes it less acceptable for use in time-pressured primary care settings, the discriminative validity of a brief, self-administered screening question about exposure to trauma, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) module's screening question (First, Spitzer, Williams & Gibbon, 1997) was compared to a longer, inventory method of assessment, the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (TLEQ, Kubany et al., 2000). Second, because it is unclear whether patients who have experienced assaultive trauma will disclose these experiences when asked in a primary care setting, the relative predictive efficacy of informing respondents that their responses would, or would not be, disclosed to health center personnel was evaluated. Two versions of the brief screening question were assessed across two instructional sets regarding disclosure, to determine each condition's relative classification accuracy for identifying respondents who reported experiences of sexual or physical assault, and/or symptoms of PTSD. The brief screen identified more than three-quarters of the survivors of traumatic assault; and more importantly, identified almost all of the women who reported significant PTSD symptomatology: the inventory method identified only 2 additional women of the 47 who met criteria for PTSD. Although survivors of sexual assault were significantly less likely to disclose their history to their provider, no differences were found for those assault survivors who also reported symptoms of PTSD. Results suggest that a brief screening question about traumatic life events may be an acceptable option in settings where more time-consuming assessment procedures are not practical. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-98). / Electronic reproduction. / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / x, 98 leaves, bound 29 cm

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Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2007. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (MPhil )--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is interested in discourses of displacement in which migrants articulate the experience of seeking improved life chances in a community considerably removed from their place of origin. Not only physical and environmental distance, but also distance related to cultural, linguistic and religious differences distinguish the (im)migrants from the local indigenous population, which is already a culturally and linguistically diverse community. This study investigates how histories of displacement and experiences of alienation or integration may be discursively managed among a group of young Somali males aged between 15 and 35 who entered South Africa in their late teens or early twenties. Specifically, this thesis considers how young Somali men who relocated to a rural Western Cape town and make a living through trading, present themselves in English-language narratives elicited during informal interviews. The study was conducted in Vredenburg, the administrative centre and economic hub of the Saldanha Bay Municipal area on the West Coast of South Africa. The data for the study was collected by means of audio recorded interviews. To supplement this data and gain more perspective on the situatedness of the discourses, the researcher further relied on field notes as well as additional informal conversations with the participants. The data was collected over a period of five months in 2007. To analyse the data, the researcher draws on the theoretical frameworks of Labov's structural analysis of narratives and Wodak and Reisigl's (2001) discourse-historical approach, and Bamberg's (1997) narrative constructivist perspective. The research aims to determine (i) how the narrators construct themselves in their narratives, and (ii) how speakers position themselves towards the content of their narratives, and towards their actual and imagined audiences. This study shows that displacement brings about new contexts characterised by uncertainty, conflict and inequalities, and this influences the way narrators orient themselves. The Somali narrators, in interviews conducted in English with a community outsider, position themselves as displaced and marginalised. During their narratives, the participants used several linguistic strategies to present themselves in various ways to actual or imagined audiences, which lead to negative otherpresentation and positive self-presentation and construction of in-group and out-group membership. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op diskoerse van ontworteling waarin migrante hul ervaring verwoord van ’n soeke na beter lewensgeleenthede in ’n gemeenskap ver verwyderd van hul plek van herkoms. Buiten vir die fisiese en omgewingsafstand, is daar ook afstand daargestel deur kulturele, linguistiese en godsdiensverskille, wat die (im)migrante onderskei van die plaaslike bevolking – op sigself ’n kultureel en linguisties diverse gemeenskap. Hierdie studie doen ondersoek na hoe geskiedenisverhale oor ontworteling en ervarings van vervreemding of integrasie diskursief bestuur kan word binne ’n groep jong Somaliese mans van 15 tot 35 jaar wat Suid-Afrika in hul laat tienerjare of vroeë twintigerjare binnegekom het. Die tesis fokus spesifiek op hoe jong Somaliese mans wat na ’n plattelandse Wes-Kaapse dorp migreer het en ’n handelsbestaan voer, hulself voorstel in Engelstalige narratiewe wat ontlok is tydens informele onderhoude. Die studie is gedoen in Vredenburg, die administratiewe en ekonomiese kern van die Saldanhabaai Munisipale Area aan die Weskus van Suid-Afrika. Die data vir die studie is ingesamel deur middel van klankopnames van onderhoude. Ten einde dié data aan te vul en meer perspektief te verkry ten opsigte van die plasing van die diskoerse, het die navorser verder gesteun op veldnotas sowel as bykomende informele gesprekke met die deelnemers. Die data is oor ’n tydperk van vyf maande in 2007 versamel. In die ontleding van die data maak die navorser gebruik van die teoretiese raamwerke van Labov se strukturele analise van narratiewe en Wodak en Reisigl (2001) se diskoers-historiese benadering, asook Bamberg (1997) se narratief-konstruktivistiese perspektief. Die navorsing het ten doel om vas te stel (i) hoe die vertellers hulself in hul narratiewe konstrueer, en (ii) hoe sprekers hulself posisioneer ten opsigte van die inhoud van hul narratiewe en ten opsigte van hul werklike en denkbeeldige gehore. Hierdie studie toon dat ontworteling nuwe kontekste skep wat gekenmerk word deur onsekerheid, konflik en ongelykhede en ’n invloed het op die wyse waarop vertellers hulself orienteer. Tydens onderhoude met ’n gemeenskapsbuitestaander, uitgevoer in Engels, posisioneer die Somaliese vertellers hulself as ontwortel en gemarginaliseer. In hul narratiewe gebruik hulle verskeie linguistiese strategieë om hulself op verskillende maniere voor te stel aan werklike en denkbeeldige gehore wat lei tot ’n negatiewe voorstelling van die Ander, ’n positiewe voorstelling van die Self en die daarstelling van binne- en buite-groep lidmaatskap.