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Voices of African Traditional Healers: Cultural Context and Implications for the Practice of Counselling in Sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lisa Lopez Levers --- Duquesne University, USA Lynne Radomsky --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Tamara Shefer --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThe healing paradigm implicit in many sub-Saharan African cultures is embedded in African cosmology, and thus the recognition of this is essential for understanding Traditional African Healing practices and implementing collaborative counselling practices. To this end, this article focuses on... -
Perceived Stress by Senior Secondary School Educators in a South African School District
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Reynold Abraham Sonn --- Walter Sisulu University,This study investigated perceptions of work-related stress as experienced by school personnel in a South African school district. Participants were senior secondary high school educators from five schools (n= 20, mean age = 38.6, females = 12, males = 8... -
Corporate reporting: Science or art . . . . . . . ful
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: M Steele --- University of the Witwatersrand,At the macro-societal level, accounting influences taxation policy-making, wage bargaining and economic restructuring. Accounting plays a vital role in these-activities which result In the transference of wealth. At both the micro-and macro-societal level accounting has a social responsibility to create... -
A postmodern perspective on the scientific status of accounting: A research note
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Arline A Savage --- Faculty of Business of the University of New Brunswick Saint John,This research note contributes to the discussion about the scientific status of accounting by contrasting Thomas Kuhn’s modem approach to science with Jean-Francois Lyotard’s postmodern perspective for the current situation regarding knowledge in advanced societies, which he describes as language... -
HeartMath: a positive psychology paradigm for promoting psychophysiological and global coherence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D Edwards --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis article proposes HeartMath as a positive psychology paradigm for promoting psychophysiological and global coherence . It provides evidence for the value of psychophysiological and global coherence, with special reference to human functioning through synchronisation between positive emotions, cardiovascular, respiratory,... -
Stakeholders and stickholders: power and paradigms in a South African development context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sarah A. Bologna --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaThe alluring vision that ecotourism can drive both rural development and ecological objectives has taken deep root in post-apartheid South Africa where severe economic inequalities persist as a result of dispossession and grossly restricted access to resources during the colonial... -
Long walk from volkekunde to anthropology: reflections on representing the human in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper stems from a seminar that the author gave at his retirement from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University earlier in 2015. It details his long personal, political and intellectual journey from volkekunde to social... -
Therapeutic tool or a hindrance? A phenomenological investigation into the experiences of countertransference in the treatment of sexually abused children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Tshepo Tlali --- University of Johannesburg,Since its inception in the 1900s, the concept of countertransference has been mired in controversy. Psychoanalytic literature is divided on its utility, significance and its clinical value in psychotherapy. While some psychotherapists have advocated for the importance of therapists’ expertise... -
Spatiotemporal expectations of apparent motion and the effect of attentional control
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Junjie Qiu --- Lingnan Normal University, China Jibo Li --- Lingnan Normal University, ChinaAn experimental investigation was conducted on whether and how temporal expectation influences visual processing in moving objects, while also considering the role of attention control. Data on reaction times were collected as outcome measures from two behavioural experiments. In experiment...