Exploring maternal parenting styles and methods of discipline in relation to autistic children's challenging behaviour in the home environment
- Authors: Ramjee, Prashana
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Autistic children -- South Africa -- Discipline , Mentally ill children -- South Africa -- Discipline Parenthood -- South Africa -- Psychological aspects Parent and child -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20570 , vital:29323
- Description: Autism Spectrum Disorder is not a modern phenomenon. Researchers have been studying children with “autism-like” characteristics for over one hundred years and only now it has become recognised, as it is a growing phenomenon. Autism is a vast and complex disorder with a range in which a child’s “autism-like” characteristics fall. Although, the primary distress of autism falls mainly on the child’s shoulders, primary caregivers such as mothers, are faced with many challenges due to the core behavioural characteristics. These challenging behaviours often leave mothers blaming themselves and defending their parenting skills. There are extensive publications regarding parenting that have been published through the years on children who do not have any diagnosed conditions, but limited research and publications exist in the area of parenting children on the autistic spectrum in general and in the South African context. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the maternal parenting styles and methods of discipline in relation to autistic children’s challenging behaviour. The present study incorporated Diana Baumrind’s Parenting Style Model as a framework to better understand the maternal parenting styles and methods of discipline. This study was explorative and descriptive in nature and a biographical questionnaire and a semi-structured interview schedule was utilised to gather data until saturation had been reached. A non-probability purposive sampling technique was employed to obtain participants and thematic analysis was used to analyse data and to extract themes. This study seeks to contribute to psychology's existing body of knowledge by conducting research on parenting styles of learners on the autistic spectrum in South Africa. By conducting this study the researcher hopes to be able to assist parents and helping Exploring Maternal Parenting Styles and Methods of Discipline in Relation to Autistic Children’s Challenging Behaviour in the Home Environment professionals with an understanding of the parenting styles and the methods that are being used to discipline the autistic child’s behaviour in the home environment.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Ramjee, Prashana
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Autistic children -- South Africa -- Discipline , Mentally ill children -- South Africa -- Discipline Parenthood -- South Africa -- Psychological aspects Parent and child -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20570 , vital:29323
- Description: Autism Spectrum Disorder is not a modern phenomenon. Researchers have been studying children with “autism-like” characteristics for over one hundred years and only now it has become recognised, as it is a growing phenomenon. Autism is a vast and complex disorder with a range in which a child’s “autism-like” characteristics fall. Although, the primary distress of autism falls mainly on the child’s shoulders, primary caregivers such as mothers, are faced with many challenges due to the core behavioural characteristics. These challenging behaviours often leave mothers blaming themselves and defending their parenting skills. There are extensive publications regarding parenting that have been published through the years on children who do not have any diagnosed conditions, but limited research and publications exist in the area of parenting children on the autistic spectrum in general and in the South African context. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the maternal parenting styles and methods of discipline in relation to autistic children’s challenging behaviour. The present study incorporated Diana Baumrind’s Parenting Style Model as a framework to better understand the maternal parenting styles and methods of discipline. This study was explorative and descriptive in nature and a biographical questionnaire and a semi-structured interview schedule was utilised to gather data until saturation had been reached. A non-probability purposive sampling technique was employed to obtain participants and thematic analysis was used to analyse data and to extract themes. This study seeks to contribute to psychology's existing body of knowledge by conducting research on parenting styles of learners on the autistic spectrum in South Africa. By conducting this study the researcher hopes to be able to assist parents and helping Exploring Maternal Parenting Styles and Methods of Discipline in Relation to Autistic Children’s Challenging Behaviour in the Home Environment professionals with an understanding of the parenting styles and the methods that are being used to discipline the autistic child’s behaviour in the home environment.
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- Date Issued: 2017
The career development of South African Grade 11 adolescents a career systems and discursive perspective
- Authors: Kuit, Wim
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: Career development -- South Africa , Teenagers -- Vocational guidance -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:9937 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/462 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011929 , Career development -- South Africa , Teenagers -- Vocational guidance -- South Africa
- Description: Career psychology in South Africa has traditionally been constituted by the vocabularies, assessment methods, counselling practices and research objectives of the modernist-positivist paradigm. This paradigm has produced a rich but disparate and fragmented range of career theories, research perspectives and career education practices that have been limited in their consideration and integration of the broad range of contextual factors that influence the career development of South African adolescents in unique ways. This limitation has had, and still has, the potential of promoting prescriptive and disqualifying constructions of career development for South African youth. A search for alternatives to traditional modernist-positivist understandings of career has led, however, to a further fragmentation of the career field into what can broadly be termed qualitative and quantitative approaches. This twofold fragmentation, as well as the dynamic complexity of the world of work in the twenty-first century, has inspired this study’s investigation of an integrating framework that employs a wide range of career theoretical perspectives in the service of constructing experience-near accounts of the complex and fluid interrelationship between individual career makers and their specific social, environmental and societal contexts. The present study has therefore employed the Systems Theory Framework (STF) in investigating and co-constructing representations of the career development of a group of South African adolescents in a way that acknowledges their unique systems of career influence and discursive contexts. The research adopted an exploratory-descriptive design in collaborating with the participants in this investigation. In the first phase of the study a sample of 70 grade 11 male and female adolescents from middle socioeconomic status environments were invited to complete the My Systems of Career Influences (MSCI) workbook in re-presenting systemic constructions of their career development. Tesch’s model of qualitative content analysis and frequency counts has been used to re-present that process to you in this text. In the second phase of the study the researcher collaborated with one participant in a systemic narrative career counselling process. During this process an account of the participant’s career narrative was co-constructed in conversations guided by a poststructural narrative approach to career counselling and the MSCI’s structuring of the participant’s complex systems of influence. The co-constructed account was critically examined according to Parker’s approach to discourse analysis. The second phase investigated how the counselling and research processes had positioned the participant in relation to her influential systems and their privileged discourses of career development. The study is particularly pertinent to a growing need for the development of respectful, critical and non-discriminatory career assessment, career research and career counselling collaborations between professionals and career makers navigating the unique and diverse South African context.
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- Date Issued: 2006
- Authors: Kuit, Wim
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: Career development -- South Africa , Teenagers -- Vocational guidance -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:9937 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/462 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011929 , Career development -- South Africa , Teenagers -- Vocational guidance -- South Africa
- Description: Career psychology in South Africa has traditionally been constituted by the vocabularies, assessment methods, counselling practices and research objectives of the modernist-positivist paradigm. This paradigm has produced a rich but disparate and fragmented range of career theories, research perspectives and career education practices that have been limited in their consideration and integration of the broad range of contextual factors that influence the career development of South African adolescents in unique ways. This limitation has had, and still has, the potential of promoting prescriptive and disqualifying constructions of career development for South African youth. A search for alternatives to traditional modernist-positivist understandings of career has led, however, to a further fragmentation of the career field into what can broadly be termed qualitative and quantitative approaches. This twofold fragmentation, as well as the dynamic complexity of the world of work in the twenty-first century, has inspired this study’s investigation of an integrating framework that employs a wide range of career theoretical perspectives in the service of constructing experience-near accounts of the complex and fluid interrelationship between individual career makers and their specific social, environmental and societal contexts. The present study has therefore employed the Systems Theory Framework (STF) in investigating and co-constructing representations of the career development of a group of South African adolescents in a way that acknowledges their unique systems of career influence and discursive contexts. The research adopted an exploratory-descriptive design in collaborating with the participants in this investigation. In the first phase of the study a sample of 70 grade 11 male and female adolescents from middle socioeconomic status environments were invited to complete the My Systems of Career Influences (MSCI) workbook in re-presenting systemic constructions of their career development. Tesch’s model of qualitative content analysis and frequency counts has been used to re-present that process to you in this text. In the second phase of the study the researcher collaborated with one participant in a systemic narrative career counselling process. During this process an account of the participant’s career narrative was co-constructed in conversations guided by a poststructural narrative approach to career counselling and the MSCI’s structuring of the participant’s complex systems of influence. The co-constructed account was critically examined according to Parker’s approach to discourse analysis. The second phase investigated how the counselling and research processes had positioned the participant in relation to her influential systems and their privileged discourses of career development. The study is particularly pertinent to a growing need for the development of respectful, critical and non-discriminatory career assessment, career research and career counselling collaborations between professionals and career makers navigating the unique and diverse South African context.
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- Date Issued: 2006
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