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Factors Impacting on Career Choices of Technikon Students From Previously Disadvantaged High Schools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- University of Kwazulu Natal, Sihle Mbanjwa --- University of Kwazulu Natal,Career development is a socially constructed process involving complex interactions among different structures, forces, and systems all constituting spheres of influence. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence career decisions. Eighty respondents (40 males and 40... -
Traditional Healing as Indigenous Knowledge: Its Relevance to HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa and the Implications for Counselors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lisa Lopez Levers --- Duquesne University,This article integrates the results of several culture-based studies conducted over the past decade. Specifically, links are made between the continued relevance of the African traditional healer's corpus of knowledge, the efficacy of the healer's cultural authority, and the need... -
Guidance and Counseling Services in South African Schools: Issues and Challenges
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Henry Nkhanedzeni Muribwathoho --- School of Education Studies, Almon Shumba --- School of Education Studies,This study seeks to determine if guidance and counseling: (a) lessons are provided to students; (b) services provided are adequate; (c) students are aware of guidance and counseling services provided; and (d) difficulties that counselors face in implementing the programme... -
Community Psychology in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Regis Chireshe --- Masvingo State University, Zimbabwe Joseph M. Kasayira --- Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Pilot Mudhovozi --- Masvingo State University, Zimbabwe John Mapfumo --- Africa University, Zimbabwe Calvin Gwandure --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe study describes and evaluates community psychology in Zimbabwe. We distinguish between a professional with the title ‘community psychologist’ and the practice of the field of community psychology in Zimbabwe. Community psychology services in Zimbabwe include the provision of education... -
Positive Psychology: The Case of Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Regis Chireshe --- Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe & Kyambogo University, Uganda Paul Ojwang --- Kyambogo University, Uganda Edward Ntare Rutondoki --- Kyambogo University, Uganda Gastone Byamugisha --- Kyambogo University, UgandaThe application of positive psychology concepts in professional psychology in Uganda is in its infancy. Both undergraduate and postgraduate psychology programmes in Ugandan universities have very limited emphasis on positive psychology concepts. Some applications are apparent in HIV/AIDS and disability... -
Self-Perceived Multicultural Counseling Competencies in South African Psychologists: A Basis for Practice Guidelines
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Humphrey S. B. Ngcobo --- University of Zululand, Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand,The study sought to explore multicultural counseling competences that are relevant for the South African context, in order to advance appropriate multicultural competent theory and practice. A total of 271 psychologists on the national register participated 109 Clinical, 79 Counselling,... -
Rape and Trauma: A Case Study of a Journey of Recovery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Maria Papaikonomou --- University of South Africa,This case study presents the results of a counselling intervention with a rape survivor. The woman was twenty-nine years old at the time of the violation. The objective of this study was to explore the dynamics which the woman engaged... -
Child Abuse and Neglect: Counseling and Healing Practices with People of African Ancestry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nareadi Phasha --- University of South Africa, Almon Shumba --- Central University of Technology, South Africa Ngozi Okose --- Private Practice, USA Pilot Mudhovozi --- University of Venda, South Africa Seter Siziya --- University of Zambia,Communities worldwide condemn child abuse and agree that any form of harm should be mitigated by culturally sensitive methods. In African settings such methods are underrepresented in the literature. This article sought to identify and highlight the healing practices that... -
Brief Overview of the Advancement of Postmodern Approaches to Career Counseling
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of Pretoria,Global changes in people's lifestyles and in the world of work (prompted by changes in the global economy) have necessitated changes in the facilitation of career counseling in the postmodern era. This article attempts to provide a concise overview of... -
Resilience and Career Counseling: Describing the Utility of Quadrant Mapping
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liesel Ebersöhn --- University of Pretoria,This article describes the manner in which educational psychology students (n = 11 females) used quadrant mapping when doing career counseling with Grade 9 youths (n=88, 47 = male, 41 = female) in a rural secondary school in South Africa... -
The Effect of Narrative Career Facilitation on the Personal Growth of a Disadvantaged Student—A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of Pretoria, Liesel Ebersöhn --- University of Pretoria, Angelique Biagione-Cerone --- University of Pretoria,This article describes the effect of narrative career facilitation on the personal growth of a disadvantaged undergraduate student at a tertiary institution in South Africa. The participant was selected purposively from among a group of undergraduate students at the tertiary... -
Holistic Psychology: A Brief Primer
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis article explicates the foundations, essential themes and healing principles of holistic psychology; an approach which provides a corrective for such trends in modern scientific psychology as disciplinary perspectives, the overemphasis on the economics and politics of professionalism. Holistic psychology... -
Case Studies: Unusual phaeochromocytomas in African families: the importance of genetic testing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: A Krause --- Division of Human Genetics, South Africa C Feben --- Division of Human Genetics, South Africa C Van Wyk --- Division of Human Genetics, South Africa K Huddle --- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, South Africa FJ Raal --- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, South Africa -
Uptake of genetic counselling services by patients with cystic fibrosis and their families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: S Macaulay --- Division of Human Genetics, N Gregersen --- Division of Human Genetics, A Krause --- Division of Human Genetics,Background: Although cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common genetic condition, genetic counselling services appear to be underutilised by affected families. The aim of this study was to determine the uptake of genetic counselling and mutation testing for CF by relatives... -
Disclosure in times of ART: A relational analysis of social practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Anita Hardon [d327e18] Alice Desclaux Joe LugallaThe reach of HIV counseling and testing has grown rapidly since the 2000s, particularly since 2007 when provider-initiated counseling and testing was implemented alongside voluntary counseling and testing and testing for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. Nevertheless, we still know... -
Le conseil post-test encourage-t-il les PVVIH à partager leur statut sérologique? Pratiques et suggestions des conseillers au Burkina Faso
Does post-test counseling support PLHIV in disclosing their HIV status? Practices and propositions by counselors in Burkina Faso Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Odette Ky-Zerbo [d309e18] Jean-François Somé Fodé SimagaDisclosure of HIV test results is discussed during post-test counseling, following norms. However, while barriers to disclosing a positive HIV result have been documented, the literature is sparse on the way guidelines are applied in the field. The aim of... -
L'annonce du statut VIH de l'enfant : expériences des mères et interprétations des soignants au Burkina Faso
Disclosure of infant HIV status: mothers' experiences and health workers' interpretations in Burkina Faso Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Alice Desclaux [d305e18] Chiara AlfieriL'annonce du statut sérologique d'un enfant constitue une situation particulière qui ne peut pas obéir aux recommandations générales pour le counseling définies pour des adultes; elle est très peu normée. Alors que les programmes de Prévention de la Transmission Mère-Enfant... -
An assessment of quality of home-based HIV counseling and testing performed by lay counselors in a rural sub-district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Vuyolwethu Magasana --- , South Africa Wanga Zembe --- , South Africa Hanani Tabana --- , South Africa Reshma Naik --- , South Africa Debra Jackson --- , South Africa Sonja Swanevelder --- , South Africa Tanya Doherty --- , South AfricaHIV counseling and testing (HCT) has been prioritized as one of the prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS, and promoted as an essential tool in scaling up and improving access to treatment, care and support especially in community settings. Home-based HCT (HBHCT)... -
Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and AIDS education curriculum
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Ephias Gudyanga --- , , South Africa Naydene de Lange --- , , South Africa Mathabo Khau --- , , South AfricaIn spite of the importance of sexuality education and HIV and AIDS education in preventing HIV infections, Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers are not engaging optimally with the current Guidance and Counseling, HIV and AIDS & Life Skills...
