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Toward an African definition of resilience: a rural South African cummunity’s view of resilient Basotho youth
(Sage Publications, 2013)
Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures. This emerging understanding has urged ...
Resilience in the face of fragile X syndrome
(Sage publication, 2012)
In this article, we communicate transformative findings from a case study on the resilience of a young woman with fragile X syndrome (FXS), a genetic condition involving mental impairment and physical, emotional, and ...
A critical review of studies of South African youth resilience, 1990–2008
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010)
Given the growing emphasis in research and service provision on strengths rather than deficits, the focus on youth support in the South African Children’s Act of 2005 and the lack of educational, therapeutic and other ...
Rethinking Rorschach interpretation: an exploration of resilient black South African adolescents' personal constructions
(Sage, 2011)
We explore Exner's Rorschach Comprehensive System as a schema-processing task to understand how six Black1 South African adolescents' personal constructions informed their transactional resilience. Transactional resilience ...
Educational psychology and resilience in developing contexts: a rejoinder to Toland and Carrigan (2011)
(Sage publication, 2013)
If educational psychologists wish to make a meaningful difference as practitioners, both to the children they work with and the ecologies these children come from, then, knowledge and application of resilience theory is ...
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 ...
Does visual participatory research have resilience–promoting value? Teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2012)
I report on a phenomenological investigation into teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings during their participation in the Resilient Educators (REds) intervention. All 18 teacher participants came from ...
Meaning-making and resilience: case studies of a multifaceted process
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
Explanations of meaning-making generally prioritise intrapersonal processes. Although making meaning is an intrapersonal process, it is also strongly influenced by person-context interactions and cultural positioning. ...
Education services and resilience processes: Resilient Black South African students' experiences
(Elsevier, 2014)
The resilience literature is increasingly drawing attention to formal service provision as a means for social ecologies to support children's and youths' positive adjustment to challenging life circumstances. This article ...
AIDS in South Africa: Therapeutic interventions to strengthen resilience among orphans and vulnerable children
(Sage, 2014)
Worldwide, approximately 10% of the 34.2 million individuals infected by human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) are under the age of 18. Additionally, 17.8 million children have experienced ...