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Browsing Social Work and Criminology by Type "Thesis"
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Sambo, Juliet
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
South Africa is facing serious challenges in addressing the needs of women survivors of human trafficking. Despite the government’s efforts to alleviate it, trafficking in women remains a serious phenomenon in society. It ...
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Kupa, Penelope Monini
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The HIV and AIDS pandemic resulted in increased demands on the South African healthcare system and contributed to elevated stress levels among healthcare workers. Such experiences by healthcare workers, including home-based ...
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Sekudu, Johannah
(University of Pretoria, 2001)
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Leonard, Emmerentia
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly to employment and poverty alleviation in Namibia, relying mostly on the labour of its employees for production. However, not much is known about the personal and ...
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Icheria, Beatrice Kabui
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
The World Food Summit (WFS) of 1996 in Rome stipulated that food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food ...
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Carbonatto, Charlene Laurence
(University of Pretoria, 1996)
English: Artificial fertilization with donor gametes is becoming more popular
amongst infertile couples as an alternative to childlessness. It
allows the couple the opportunity to experience a pregnancy and the
birth ...
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Mayombe, Celestin
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
Non-formal adult education and training (NFET) in South Africa was adopted in 1990 with the aim to respond to the learning needs of adults who do not have access to formal education; to increase their employment opportunities; ...
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Masuka, Tawanda
(University of Pretoria, 2020-10-06)
Child poverty remains a global challenge with millions of children living in extreme income poverty in multidimensionally poor households (UNICEF, 2019a:20). This prompted the international call under the Sustainable ...
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Winter, Carla Marika
(University of Pretoria, 2005-02-10)
The single parent family in an inner city context is confronted with a problematic life situation. The demands, which are brought about by single parenthood as well as residence in an inner city environment, often lead to ...
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Berejena Mhongera, Pamhidzayi
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Transition to adulthood is a complex phenomenon, yielding varying outcomes for young people in different environments. Hence, adolescent girls transitioning from institutional care are a heterogeneous group with varying ...
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Spies, Margaretha
(University of Pretoria, 2007)
The study emanates from the need to identify the biopsychosocial factors that influence patients’ adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) within the South African context The specific goal of the study was to explore ...
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Molepo, Lesiba Phineas
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
Child and Youth Care is another profession that falls under the social services sector. A contextualization of child and youth care field within the broader socio-economic South African context is presented. In particular, ...
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Jantjie, Keitumetse Gladys
(University of Pretoria, 2009-10-29)
Within the socio-economic sphere, the development of women in the workplace is hindered by the dynamics of health and wellness issues such as HIV and AIDS, their gender dispositions and their social struggles around balancing ...
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Mudira, Awelani Constance
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Environmental risks and poverty are prevalent and have negative effects on all community members, including children. Children are exposed to health risks such as asthma, airborne diseases and lung diseases caused by ...
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Schoeman, Marelize
(University of Pretoria, 2002)
The high crime rate in South Africa and the government’s apparent inability to deal with this problem is a reality. Even though no official statistics exist regarding the recidivism rate in South Africa it is estimated ...
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Swanepoel, Ilze
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
In his thesis, The design and implementation of brief interventions for carers of people diagnosed with substance use disorder: A harm reduction perspective, the candidate used applied research, specifically intervention ...
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Bernardi, Delia Anastasia
(University of Pretoria, 2018-11)
Intimate partner violence is a global evil and has reached pandemic proportions with
ramifications that are devastating for all parties concerned. Characteristics and causal
influences that were applicable to both abusive ...
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Kruger, Marie Elizabeth
(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-19)
Children’s rights are a world wide clarion call – yet, when it comes to implementing it in practice, the hearts of everybody starts racing because suddenly the issue is not just academic, it’s personal. In practice it is ...
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Brandt, Catharina Johanna
(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-28)
In this investigation an attempt was firstly made to define, describe and explicate the phenomenon of substance abuse among the youth, providing a basis for understanding the multidimensional nature of adolescent substance ...
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Schiller, Ulene
(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-01)
In this study the researcher developed a training programme for state prosecutors to address re-victimization of the sexually abused child during forensic procedures. The study commenced with a literature study focusing ...