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An exploratory study of psychologists’ perceptions of the phenomenon currently understood as ‘borderline personality disorder’

- Daya, Lekha

Authors: Daya, Lekha
Date: 2021
Subjects: Borderline personality disorder , Psychologists -- Attitudes -- South Africa , Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171139 , vital:42023
Description: The phenomenon currently understood as ‘borderline personality disorder’ (BPD) has been complex and multifaceted since its inception. Previous studies have focused on the validity of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) conceptualisation of BPD, aetiologies of BPD, the psychologies of persons diagnosed with BPD, and the gendered nature of BPD. This study aimed to specifically explore South African practising psychologists’ perceptions of BPD. Through thematic analysis from a constructivist, post-modern paradigm, this study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of practising psychologists on BPD, as well as the usefulness of the DSM in working with BPD in a non-western society such as South Africa (SA). The study sampled two Counselling and two Clinical psychologists practising in the South African context, with exposure to and experience in working with BPD. Collectively, results in this study identified psychologists’ perceptions of shortcomings in the usefulness of the DSM’s approach to categorising phenomena associated with BPD, and brought attention to a need for further research and attention into the role of psychologists’ in the construction of BPD. This study seeks to represent psychologists’ practical experiences and perceptions, in an attempt to add contextually relevant findings on the DSM’s construction of BPD, and to contribute to challenging the stigma and misunderstanding associated with BPD. Specific practice implications and recommendations for future research are discussed within.
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Date Issued: 2021

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How to establish and run a catchment management forum

- Palmer, Carolyn G, Holleman, Helen, Wolff, Margaret G

Authors: Palmer, Carolyn G , Holleman, Helen , Wolff, Margaret G
Date: 2018
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , report
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437894 , vital:73420 , ISBN 978-1 4312-0986-6 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/SP 118-18 web.pdf
Description: The user-friendly series of “How to….” handbooks are aimed at staff and stakehold-ers in catchment management forums (CMFs), catchment management agencies (CMAs) and municipalities. The handbooks are not all written at exactly the same level of “user-friendliness”, it depends on the topic, and target users.
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Date Issued: 2018

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Like a bolt from the blue : phthalocyanines in biomedical optics

- Sekkat, N, Van den Berg, H, Nyokong, Tebello, Lange, N

Authors: Sekkat, N , Van den Berg, H , Nyokong, Tebello , Lange, N
Date: 2012
Subjects: Biomedical optics Fluorescence diagnosis Phthalocyanines NIR dyes Photodynamic therapy
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6597 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004346 , http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules17010098
Description: The purpose of this review is to compile preclinical and clinical results on phthalocyanines (Pcs) as photosensitizers (PS) for Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and contrast agents for fluorescence imaging. Indeed, Pcs are excellent candidates in these fields due to their strong absorbance in the NIR region and high chemical and photo-stability. In particular, this is mostly relevant for their in vivo activation in deeper tissular regions. However, most Pcs present two major limitations, i.e., a strong tendency to aggregate and a low water-solubility. In order to overcome these issues, both chemical tuning and pharmaceutical formulation combined with tumor targeting strategies were applied. These aspects will be developed in this review for the most extensively studied Pcs during the last 25 years, i.e., aluminium-, zinc- and silicon-based Pcs.
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Date Issued: 2012

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Petrology and geochemistry of Early Cretaceous bimodal continental flood volcanism of the NW Etendeka, Namibia Part 1: introduction, mafic lavas and re-evaluation of mantle source components

- Ewart, A, Marsh, Julian S, Milner, Simon C, Duncan, Andrew R, Kamber, B S, Armstrong, R A

Authors: Ewart, A , Marsh, Julian S , Milner, Simon C , Duncan, Andrew R , Kamber, B S , Armstrong, R A
Date: 2004
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150583 , vital:38986 , https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egg083
Description: The bimodal NW Etendeka province is located at the continental end of the Tristan plume trace in coastal Namibia. It comprises a high-Ti (Khumib type) and three low-Ti basalt (Tafelberg, Kuidas and Esmeralda types) suites, with, at stratigraphically higher level, interstratified high-Ti latites (three units) and quartz latites (five units), and one low-Ti quartz latite. Khumib basalts are enriched in high field strength elements and light rare earth elements relative to low-Ti types and exhibit trace element affinities with Tristan da Cunha lavas.
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Date Issued: 2004

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The construction of masculinities: male university students' talk about women and heterosexual relationships

- Minnaar, Benita

Authors: Minnaar, Benita
Date: 2003
Subjects: Masculinity , Men -- Identity , Men -- South Africa , Men -- Conduct of life , Discourse analysis , Heterosexuality -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:3020 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002529 , Masculinity , Men -- Identity , Men -- South Africa , Men -- Conduct of life , Discourse analysis , Heterosexuality -- South Africa
Description: This article examines the talk of male Psychology students about women and heterosexual relationships in all-male discussion groups. Four vignettes depicting difficult situations in heterosexual relationships were used to initiate discussion. Eight men attending a historically black university participated in the group discussions, which were facilitated by a male postgraduate Psychology student. The study explored masculine identity construction by identifying interpretive repertoires deployed by respondents to construct and account for themselves and their social worlds, within the context of discussions about relationships with women. Three interpretive repertoires of masculinity: the male-as- breadwinner/provider, male-as-protector and the "New Man" repertoire were identified. The complex and contradictory nature of masculine identity construction is highlighted. Drawing on the work of Hollway (1984), two discourses of heterosexuality were also identified: the have/hold discourse and the permissive discourse. The invocation of the "New Man" repertoire and pro-feminist discourses of heterosexuality in the men's talk may signify a move towards more enlightened and less oppressive constructions of masculinity, heterosexuality and gender.
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Date Issued: 2003

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Consultative Conference on Education and Training, Cape Town 19-21 June 1996: workbook and discussion documents

- Food and Allied Workers' Union

Authors: Food and Allied Workers' Union
Date: 1996-06-19
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105917 , vital:32583
Description: Ladies and Gentleman, the Honorable Minister and fellow working comrades, I take this opportunity of welcoming all of you to this Consultative Conference on Education, Training and Development. Many of you have travelled from far, having left many responsibilities behind to attend to this issue of ETD for workers and industry. I wish to immediately thank you for this sacrifice made, the dividends of which I believe will be reaped for a very long time yet. But what does ETD mean for workers and industry? Let me venture an opinion. I think at my age I am occasionally allowed the liberty to issue opinion. We think for workers and we speak as workers, ETD means an opportunity to break free from the shackles "of low skilled -low paid -low satisfaction jobs - jobs which provide neither security, preferment nor progression- jobs that neither builds the economy nor their families and communities. As a worker I know of these frustrations - as a trade unionist I have committed myself to overcoming these deprivations. For industry, ETD, I think has come to mean as much for employers as for workers - in numerous discussions FAWU has had with employers we have come to understand the close linkages employers are drawing between Education, training and development (ETD) and increased productivity. We all know that increased productivity means improved performance and improved performance strengthens a company's ability to survive and grow. And a company that stabilises or grows can only add value to the economy and all its peoples' lives. Thus the presence of employers here tonight seems to affirm this common belief in ETD.
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Date Issued: 1996-06-19

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Youth in rural Transkei: the demise of "traditional" youth associations and the development of new forms of association and activity, 1975-1993

- McAllister, Patrick A, Dumisani, Deliwe

Authors: McAllister, Patrick A , Dumisani, Deliwe
Date: 1994
Subjects: Rural poor -- South Africa -- Transkei Rural youth -- South Africa -- Transkei Youth -- South Africa -- Transkei -- Societies, etc Youth -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Transkei Transkei (South Africa) -- Social conditions
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2068 , vital:20252 , ISBN 0868102687
Description: In the rural Xhosa-speaking parts of South Africa there is a strong tradition of youth associations or youth organisations. With a few notable exceptions, these have been neglected in the sociological and historical literature. Our understanding of rural areas, their relationship with other parts of the country, and of rural change, have suffered in consequence. The youth are at the forefront of the urban/rural interface, and at the forefront of rural change. In his analysis of the indlavini youth organisation that existed in Pondoland in the 1950s, Beinart (1991) illustrates how a study of this element of society is important for an understanding of issues such as the nature of migrant labour and worker consciousness, as well as for social change in rural areas, the politics of generation and gender, and rural protest. Our aim in this study has been to document the decline of the 'traditional' youth associations in the Shixini administrative area of Willowvale district, Transkei. By 'traditional' we mean the youth organisations as they existed in the 1960s and early 1970s, though there is evidence to suggest that there had been considerable continuity in this respect from much earlier - at least from the 1930s and 1940s (Mayer and Mayer 1972). We suggest reasons for this decline, as well as some of the consequences, and examine some of the new, alternative youth activities which have replaced the older ones. This allows us to make some comment about the changing role of youth in rural areas like Shixini, and to suggest some of the policy implications of this. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1994

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Work in Progress Issue no.46 - Striking OK Workers in Class War

- WIP

Authors: WIP
Date: Feb 1987
Subjects: WIP
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112034 , vital:33540
Description: The current state of emergency is into its ninth month. If anything, regulations promulgated during December and January make it more restrictive than before, and recent statements from government ministers suggest that there is no intention of ending emergency conditions at present. With a whites-only election scheduled for 6 May, opposition political parties have protested that the terms of the emergency favour the National Party in the election campaign, and seriously hinder other party efforts. And there is no indication that some of the most repressive aspects of emergency life - long-term detention, comprehensive media censorship, and a blanket ban on all sources of information concerning security force activities unless sanctioned by government - are softening. Government is clearly using emergency powers to undermine and attack serious challenges to its power - the ANC, the trade union movement, popular political organisations, and the embryonic structures of 'people's power' that developed in townships after 1985. But it is important to recognise that the state of emergency is not only being used to attack: it also functions to support and promote some interests and organisations at the expense of others. Organisations like Inkatha and its trade union wing, UWUSA, are benefitting from repression suffered by progressive organisations in Natal. The detention of all leading COSATU trade unionists in Northern Natal, for example, created a space for UWUSA in that area. In East London, government is attempting to create a basis of legitimacy for Duncan Village's newly constituted town council. But this could only happen after the UDF-affiliated Duncan Village Residents Association was severely weakened by police raids and detentions. Strikers involved in the OK Bazaars dispute have been so badly harassed by police that OK management approached government on this question. And government's attempts to silence discussion on the ANC within South Africa, and at the same time wage a propaganda war against that organisation, are greatly helped by emergency provisions. The blanket ban on advertisements calling for the unbanning of the ANC is just one example of this trend. Importantly, then, progressives must not only look at which organisations and interests are being undermined by the state of emergency. They must also ask who benefits. For government and its allies are not just involved in a battle against progressive opposition forces. They are also intervening in an attempt to create, support and direct structures and organisations which are more sympathetic to government's view of the future than any progressive groups will be.
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Date Issued: Feb 1987

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What is a co-operative?

- Crankshaw, Paul

Authors: Crankshaw, Paul
Date: [Date of publication not identified]
Subjects: Cooperative societies -- South Africa , Producer cooperatives -- South Africa , Consumer cooperatives -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75688 , vital:30448
Description: The word ‘co-operative’ means to work together for a common goal. A co-operative is a group of people who together own and control an organisation or a business for the benefit of its members. A co-operative is democratic, and so the members of the co-operative are responsible to each other. They work for themselves; and together they decide how to run the co-operative and how to share the profits. , This booklet was put together by members of Cope, with the help of Paul Crankshaw (editing and layout), Leslie Lawson (photographs and interviews) and Sue Beattie (drawings)
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