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31	Working mothers, child care and the organisation : an ecosystemic exploration Marques, Paula Alexandra de Graça 11 1900 (has links) In this study an ecosystemic and social constructionist approach is used to understand the meanings and perceptions held by working mothers in relation to their experiences with the childcare and organisation settings. These meanings are described in terms of the influence of wider social discourses, personal epistemological assumptions, tacit knowledge, past experiences and current contexts. The working mothers, together with the researcher, form a linguistic system in which meanings about motherhood, employer-support and childcare arrangements are co-constructed and shared. The relationships between the working mothers and the researcher are not only observed within a linguistic context, but also within the ecosystemic view of mutual reciprocity, self-referentiality and double description. A qualitative and naturalistic research methodology is followed to describe the emergent design and the grounded theory. Based on the qualitative paradigm, the conclusions drawn at the end of the study are idiographic and reflective. / Psychology / M.A.(Clinical Psychology) Working mothers Childcare Employer-support On-site childcare programs Ecosystemic epistemology Social constructionism Social Discourses Naturalistic Inquiry 362.7120968 Day care centers -- South Africa. Child care services -- South Africa. Mothers -- Employment -- South Africa. Child welfare -- South Africa. Play groups -- South Africa. Education
32	Domestic violence: the experiences of young adult females Themistocleous, Nicola 08 1900 (has links) There has been a vast amount of research regarding domestic violence. However, the literature is centered on a linear, cause and effect approach. This study aimed to explore domestic violence from the experiences of young female adults, and will be approached from a postmodern perspective. The participants were selected based on purposive sampling and willingness to participate. The sample consists of two participants and the data was obtained through their written stories and semi-structured face-to-face interviews. Themes were then extracted from the data and were explored through hermeneutic analysis which is consistent with the postmodern approach. A qualitative methodological design was used in order to allow meaning to emerge. The results were then presented in an interpretive and descriptive manner. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Hermeneutic analysis Qualitative research Ecosystemic epistemology Domestic Violence Act (no 116 of 1998) Postmodernism Young adult females Domestic violence Experiencing domestic violence 362.82920968 Family violence -- South Africa
33	Facilitating forgiveness: an NLP approach to forgiving Von Krosigk, Beate Christine 31 May 2004 (has links) Facilitating forgiveness: an NLP approach to forgiving is an attempt at uncovering features of the blocks that prevent people to forgive. These blocks to forgiveness can be detected in the real life situations of the six individuals who told me their stories. The inner thoughts, feelings and the subsequent behaviour that prevented them from forgiving others is clearly uncovered in their stories. The facilitation process highlights the features that created the blocks in the past thus preventing forgiveness to occur. The blocks with their accompanying features reveal what needs to be clarified or changed in order to eventually enable the hurt individuals to forgive those who have hurt them. The application of discourse analysis to the stories of hurt highlights the links between the real life stories of the individuals within their contexts with regard to unforgiveness to the research findings of the existing body of knowledge, thereby creating a complexly interwoven comprehensive understanding of the individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviours in conjunction with their developmental phases within their socio-cultural contexts. Neuro-linguistic-programming (NLP) is the instrument with which forgiving is facilitated in the six individuals who expressed their conscious desire to forgive, because they were unable to do so on their own. Their emotions had the habit of keeping them in a place in which they were forced to relive the hurtful event as if it were happening in the present. Arresting the process of reliving negative emotions requires a new way of being in this world. The assumption that this can be learnt is based on the results from a previous study, in which forgiveness was uncovered by means of the grounded theory approach as a cognitive process (Von Krosigk, 2000). The results from the previous research in conjunction with the results and insights from this research study are presented in the form of a grounded theory model of forgiveness. / Psychology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Psychology) Grounded theory Hatred Healing Holistic Human rights violations Hurt Multidisciplinary Intervention Intuition Model of forgiveness Narrative inquiry Neuro-linguistic programming NLP Psycho-biographical Qualitative Rape Systems Therapeutic Forgiveness Ethnographical Ecosystemic epistemology Discourse analysis Consciousness Communication Body/mind Bio-psycho-social Action inquiry Anger 152.4 Forgiveness -- Psychological aspects Forgiveness -- Religious aspects Neurolinguistic programming Emotions
34	Working mothers, child care and the organisation : an ecosystemic exploration Marques, Paula Alexandra de Graça 11 1900 (has links) In this study an ecosystemic and social constructionist approach is used to understand the meanings and perceptions held by working mothers in relation to their experiences with the childcare and organisation settings. These meanings are described in terms of the influence of wider social discourses, personal epistemological assumptions, tacit knowledge, past experiences and current contexts. The working mothers, together with the researcher, form a linguistic system in which meanings about motherhood, employer-support and childcare arrangements are co-constructed and shared. The relationships between the working mothers and the researcher are not only observed within a linguistic context, but also within the ecosystemic view of mutual reciprocity, self-referentiality and double description. A qualitative and naturalistic research methodology is followed to describe the emergent design and the grounded theory. Based on the qualitative paradigm, the conclusions drawn at the end of the study are idiographic and reflective. / Psychology / M.A.(Clinical Psychology) Working mothers Childcare Employer-support On-site childcare programs Ecosystemic epistemology Social constructionism Social Discourses Naturalistic Inquiry 362.7120968 Day care centers -- South Africa. Child care services -- South Africa. Mothers -- Employment -- South Africa. Child welfare -- South Africa. Play groups -- South Africa. Education

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