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Career-story Interviewing Using the Three Anecdotes Technique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of Pretoria,This article describes the value of using the Three Anecdotes Technique (TAT) during career-story interviewing. The TAT is a technique aimed at eliciting clients' three earliest memories to help counsellors identify clients' preoccupations and thereby support them to deal with... -
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... -
Identifying and Dealing with the Adaptability Needs of an Unwed Pregnant Teenager
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Esta Hansen --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThis article describes a way of identifying and dealing with the adaptability needs of a pregnant teenager from a life design perspective. The participant was selected purposively from among a group of undergraduate students at an institution for unwed mothers... -
Positive Side of the Work-Family Interface: A Theoretical Review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marissa De Klerk --- North-West University, South Africa Jan Alewyn Nel --- North-West University, South Africa Eileen Koekemoer --- North-West University, South AfricaThis narrative review considers the positive side of the work-family interface. It surveyed a range of relevant literature (1960–2012) using search terms on the positive work-family interface. From the literature it is evident that various concepts (e.g., work-family enhancement, work-family... -
Mentoring in medical practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: T Gibbs --- College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Kingdom of Bahrain D Brigden --- Faculty of Health Sciences, UK D Hellenberg --- University of Cape Town,Previous articles in this series have defined words and concepts that guide our thinking in the areas of teaching and learning, set in the greater world of education; but what happens in the quiet and often lonely world of individual... -
Spatial patterns of encroaching shrub species under different grazing regimes in a semi-arid savanna, eastern Karoo, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Admore Mureva --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa David Ward --- School of Life Sciences, South AfricaWoody plant encroachment is increasing in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. We investigated the structure and fine-scale spatial pattern of encroaching species and how these patterns vary with different grazing regimes in semi-arid regions. In this study, we... -
Restoration of degraded ecosystems in the Afromontane highlands of Ethiopia: comparison of plantations and natural regeneration
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Abrham Abiyu --- Amhara Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia Demel Teketay --- Department of Crop Science and Production, Botswana Gerhard Glatzel --- Institute of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria Raf Aerts --- Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation Section, Belgium Georg Gratzer --- Institute of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, AustriaThe scale of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa underscores the need for forest restoration. Information is scarce for evidence-based restoration options. Sown Senna didymobotrya, planted Ficus thonningii cuttings, sown S. didymobotrya and planted F. thonningii combined, and previously occurring native non-browse... -
Grazing smarter: science-based grazing strategies, not only stocking rate, determine rangeland outcomes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Richard Fynn --- Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana, Botswana Kevin Kirkman --- School of Agriculture and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Craig Morris --- School of Agriculture and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Peter Zacharias --- Consultant in Vegetation/Animal Systems, South AfricaResearch indicates a ‘crisis’ in the search for optimal grazing strategies with experimental results suggesting that stocking rate is the primary factor influencing rangeland condition and cattle performance. However, we contend that this is a spurious conclusion, inevitably conceived by...