The study draws on a relatively small convenience sample of 39 reports from eight different psychologists who represented key informants in the field in Cape Town. Jameson, Ehrenberg and Hunter's (1997) Best Interests of the Child Assessment model was revised and used as a template for a ...
“The Anglican church in Cape Town in which John Smyth worshipped… has reported that it never received any reports suggesting he abused or groomed young people,” Thabo Makgoba, the archbishop of Cape Town, said in statement responding tothis week’s resignation of Just...
Keep the child focused on how the hospital helps with their healing. Talk about what has been accomplished since they’ve been there, and be sure they know what’s going to happen in the future. This will help the child associate positive emotions with the hospital. In addition, if you t...
South Africa’s population is largely made up of young people, with those below the age of 35 years constituting approximately 66% of the population. The current study was conducted in the Western Cape Province of South Africa (one of nine provincial regions). The Western Cape Province has an...
I would say nothing, nothing different from having the services, having the possibility of a psychologist and they [ex-combatants] say that they do not need psychologists. But having the services does not mean that you have the option of the service, because one thing is to have the possib...
Pilot funding from Duke Global Health Initiative Cape Town priority partnership supported the training and supervision of the clinicians. As part of that effort, four South African Clinical Psychologists completed an initial 40-h PCIT training by a certified PCIT Global Trainer at a child and ...
Institutionalization of children who are deprived of parental care is a thriving phenomenon in the global South, and has generated considerable concern both nationally and internationally, in the last two decades. In Kenya, the number of children growing
Many psychologists agree that younger children tend to adapt more quickly to abig movethan older children and teenagers. Whether you’ve moved across town or across the country, your child may experience a sadness rooted in a longing for their old room, their old friends and their old school...