D.Litt. et Phil. (Social Work) / The rising divorce rate and the crisis surrounding divorce was the motivation for the researcher to undertake this study. The purpose of the study was to develop a groupwork program for divorce counselling. Groupwork was selected as a method especially because the developmental approach of Tropp (1976) strong I y s tresses shared problems and experiences - in this instance of divorce. :'-, The model contains five phases, although this study only dealt with the analysis, development and evaluation phases. Each phase comprises material conditions to be met as well as a number of operational steps to be followed. The model fits in particularly well with programme development and evaluation • The modeI further lends itself to the utilization of different theories and models which inform the theoretical foundation of the study, e.g • the stress and crisis mode 1 of Ahrons & Rodgers (1987), and Tripodi's (1983) programme evaluation model in the evaluation phase. The measuring instruments used in this study were five of the nine Hudson scales and a biographical questionnaire.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:4309 |
| Date | 12 March 2014 |
| Creators | Buitendach, Johanna Hendrina |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Johannesburg |
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