Browsing Faculty of Education by Subject "Youth"
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A review of quantitative studies of South African youth resilience: Some gaps
(ASSAf, 2015)Resilience (positive adjustment to hardship) relies on a socioecologically facilitated process in which individuals navigate towards, and negotiate for, health–promoting resources, and their social ecology, in return, ... -
Adolescents' precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being and resilience in five countries
(Wiley, 2011)An exploratory qualitative study of 16 disadvantaged youth in 5 countries suggests that making both precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being is advantageous to adolescents ... -
Community-researcher liaisons: the pathways to resilience project advisory panel
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2013)The Pathways to Resilience Project is an ongoing, community-based participatory research (CBPR) project. Its express focus is the exploration of how at-risk youths use formal services and/or informal, naturally occurring ... -
A critical reflection on the participatory action process involved in the develoment of a congnitive–behavioural based Counselling Intervention Programme for youth living with HIV/AIDS in a rural South African town
(SAGE Publications, 2011)South Africa currently lacks HIV counselling interventions that are youth-specific and that meet the psychosocial needs of young people living with HIV/AIDS. Indigenous strategies and interventions need to be developed ... -
Positive adjustment to poverty: how family communities encourage resilience in traditional African contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)In the main, resilience literature explains positive adjustment to adversity in ways that are biased towards western culture. Although studies of resilience among African Americans have reported the importance of kinship, ... -
Resilience research with South African youth: caveats and ethical complexities
(Sage, 2012)Studies of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to major challenges commonly associated with negative outcomes, have proliferated in recent years. Despite the popularity of this research focus, there are suggestions ...
