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Community Counselling: Values and Practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa and University of Western Cape, South Africa Donna Baptiste --- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article focuses on community counselling, specifically in African contexts. A community psychology approach is used as a framework for this discussion. This approach, linked to a critical perspective, highlights the importance of going beyond individualist assessments and interventions towards... -
Community Counselling in African Contexts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa & University of Western Cape, South Africa Donna Baptiste --- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article explores community counselling as a form of professional practice for psychologists, with a particular focus on practices that are relevant in African contexts. The discussion identifies and discusses various models of practice identified in community psychology, including an... -
Psychometric Properties and Factorial Structure of the State Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Version (STAI-T) in Caribbean University Students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Donna-Maria B. Maynard --- University of the West Indies, Michael H. Campbell --- University of the West Indies, Dwayne Devonish --- University of the West Indies, Teddy Leon --- University of the West Indies, Maisha K. Emmanuel --- University of the West Indies, Jonathan W. Roberti --- New College of Florida, USAThe study investigated the psychometric properties of the State Trait Anxiety Inventory—Trait Scale (STAI-T: Spielberger, 1983) in a Caribbean university student sample. Participants were 415 undergraduate students (75% female) who completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Version (STAI-T; Spielberger, 1983), Beck... -
Risk management in HIV/AIDS: ethical and economic issues associated with restricting HAART access only to adherent patients
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Richard Chawana --- , South Africa Donna Knapp van Bogaert --- , South AfricaLike many other developing nations, South Africa faces the challenge of mobilising resources in response to the HIV pandemic. There is a large budget gap between the ideal and the actual amount of funding needed to achieve universal access to... -
Observations at a nest of the Madagascar Wagtail Motacilla flaviventris
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: DonnaL. O'Daniel --- , USAO'Daniel, D.L. 1997. Observations at a nest of the Madagascar Wagtail. Ostrich 68 (2): 19–22. -
A hard-knock life: the foraging ecology of Cape cormorants amidst shifting prey resources and industrial fishing pressure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MH Hamann --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa D Grémillet --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa PG Ryan --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa F Bonadonna --- , France CD van der Lingen --- Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa L Pichegru --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South AfricaOnce one of the most numerous seabirds of the Benguela upwelling system, the population of Cape cormorants Phalacrocorax capensis has decreased by 60% in the past three decades and the species is listed as Near Threatened. Declines in prey availability... -
Resolving the confusion: Amietia vertebralis and A. umbraculata tadpole morphology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Donnavan J.D. Kruger --- School of Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Ché Weldon --- School of Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa Louis H. Du Preez --- School of Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South AfricaMorphological similarities between the tadpoles of Amietia umbraculata and A. vertebralis have led to confusion and incorrect descriptions and identifications in the literature. Based on 33 body measurements and ratios we revised the morphological descriptions of the tadpoles of the... -
Do public attitudes affect conservation effort? Using a questionnaire-based survey to assess perceptions, beliefs and superstitions associated with frogs in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Jeanne Tarrant --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Donnavan Kruger --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Louis H du Preez --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South AfricaGlobally, amphibians are among the least appreciated vertebrates and are often negatively perceived by the general public. Such attitudes are particularly prevalent in South Africa, where fear, superstitions and myths associated with frogs are pervasive in some cultures. These attitudes... -
Restive behaviour among school teachers: Leadership styles’ influences in a Nigerian setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Emenike N. Anyaegbunam --- Federal University, Nigeria Davies E. O. Ogbeide --- Madonna University, NigeriaThis study investigated the perception of leadership styles and employee restive behaviour by secondary school teachers in a Nigerian setting. Participants were 309 secondary school teachers (males = 41.42%; females = 58.58%; age range between 36 and 52 years; M... -
“Reproducing the social”: contradictory interconnections between land, cattle production and household relations in the Besters Land Reform Project, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Donna Hornby --- Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa Ben Cousins --- Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South AfricaLand redistribution policy in South Africa emphasises commercial farming as the legitimate use of land. This production-oriented framework fails to take into account the intertwined but unstable relationship between the production of market value and social reproduction, and how this... -
Preliminary structural validation of the Afrikaans version of the Children’s Hope Scale
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Donnay Manuel --- Child and Family Studies, South Africa Maria Florence --- Child and Family Studies, South Africa Sabirah Adams --- Language Development Group, Centre for Higher Education Development, South Africa Mulalo Mpilo --- Child and Family Studies, South Africa Anton Delport --- Child and Family Studies, South Africa Mariska Pienaar --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Deborah Sinclair --- Child and Family Studies, South Africa Shazly Savahl --- Child and Family Studies, South AfricaThis study aimed to test the overall fit structure and reliability of scores from the Afrikaans version of the Children’s Hope Scale. The validation sample comprised of 899 adolescent learners selected from 12 schools located in the Western Cape province... -
The impact of entrepreneurial cognition on opportunity-capitalizing capabilities and business model change: Evidence from Egypt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Nancy Bouchra Hanna --- Amity University Dubai, UAE Erich Zahn --- University of Stuttgart, Germany Hadia H. Abdel Aziz --- Universities of Canada, Egypt Christine Madonna Kirkland --- Western Carolina University, USA R. Michael Holmes --- Florida State University, USAThis study advances the upper echelons literature by examining the (a) cognitive microfoundations of business model change and (b) intervening organizational mechanisms that help to explain the influence of strategic leaders on firm outcomes. We develop our theory by considering...