A phenomenological investigation of the beginning therapist's experience of the first session of psychotherapy with the first patient
- Authors: Allen, Jennifer Ann
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193129 , vital:45301
- Description: The aim of this project is to come to an understanding of how the situation of the first session of psychotherapy with the first patient is lived by the beginning therapist and what meaning this situation holds for him. The writer's interest in this phenomenon grew out of her own experience of this situation as a clinical Masters coursework student, an experience which was of important to the writer and meaningful still as a therapist in training. In dialogue with experienced therapists the importance of this situation was again made apparant. It was the opinion of these therapists that although for some the details of this experience had become dulled by time, what remained meaningful to them was that this experience was seen as the beginning of a project which remains important to them - they identified this situation as an important moment in the history of their development as psychotherapists. In the hope that the literature pertaining to psychotherapy would throw some light on this situation, the writer turned to a number of sources in this area to discover that no literature available to her elucidated this situation in a holistic manner. This led the writer to go back to the beginning therapists themselves so that they may speak for themselves of their experience of this situation. A phenomenological method of enquiry is implemented in this study as it renders the subject matter accessible to investigation, and allows it to reveal itself as it essentially is. This project is then an attempt to come to a general description of the beginning therapist's experience of the first session of psychotherapy with the first patient and thus to articulate the structure of the beginning therapist's lived situation (world) in this context. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1987
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- Date Issued: 1987
Iyure ifikile ke ngoku!
- Authors: National Union of Mineworkers
- Date: 1987-09-09
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105109 , vital:32466
- Description: Eli lixesha lokuba bonke abasebenzi mgodi babe kumgca ongaphambili kweli dabi lomvuzo ophilisayo. Ugwayimbo lufuneka lube kuzo zonke imayini. Kucace okwekat‘emhlophe ehlungwini okokuba iChamber of Mines ayifuni kusihlawula imivuzo yanelisayo nephucukileyo. Isibonisile okokuba eyona nto iphambili kubo yingeniso yohlohlesabo eli xesha thina sihlupheka. Eyona ndlela iyiyo iseleyo yokunyanzelekisa iChamber of Mines lugwayimbo kuyo yonke imigodi yegolide neyamalahle. Ohlohlesabo sebetshilo okokuba nokuba ngaba singagwayimba abana kuyonyusa imivuzo yethu. Sesisazi kwakhona okokuba sebeqalile ohlohlesabo ukuzilungiselela ukuze balutyumze ugwayimbo lethu. , News strike special August 9, 1987
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- Date Issued: 1987-09-09
A comparison of the self-esteem of black and white high school pupils
- Authors: Morrow, Brian Robert
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193033 , vital:45292
- Description: This study investigated the level of self-esteem of black and white high-school students using the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. One hundred and eighty six subjects were used, 63 of them being white while 118 were black. A validation of the Rosenberg scale for the black sample was attempted using a correlation between the scale score and a rating of the subjects by teachers. The results of the study showed no significant difference between the self-esteem levels, while the validation study failed to confirm the validity of the test for black subjects in South Africa. However, the validation study v/as rejected as inconclusive and the results of the comparison accepted as confirmatory of previous research. An incidental positive finding revealed that white males have higher self-esteem than white females,. The theory and past research of self-esteem comparisons between racial groups is reviewed. The conclusion is reached in this study that the concept of self-esteem has outlasted its usefulness in the field of comparisons between racial groups and research of a qualitative nature .can provide further data for the understanding of differences between racial groups. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1988
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- Date Issued: 1988
Towards an essential description of the experience of psychotherapy
- Authors: Letlaka, Kedibone Tembisa
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193183 , vital:45307
- Description: The aim of this thesis is to explore and clarify what the experience of psychotherapy with ex-detainees entails. This investigation and analysis is conducted within the framework of a phenomenological method. The researcher elicits both the ex-detainees' and the therapist's experiences of psychotherapy. Initially the problematic nature of research in psychotherapy is layed out. This is followed by an overview of literature and theory on trauma and its conceptualizations from various psychotherapeutic perspectives. The treatment implications in each case are mentioned. Trauma occurs in the detention experience so detention is then briefly looked at in terms of torture basically and the detention syndrome, post traumatic stress disorder. Core personality processes in relation to this diagnosis are given and the stress recovery process is summarized. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1988
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- Date Issued: 1988
NUMSA workers build co-operatives
- Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa , Nunn, Cedric
- Date: 1988-06-12
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , newsletter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105489 , vital:32523
- Description: There are two main co-operative activities that are supported by NUMSA. The one is SAWCO in Natal and the other is the project that is starting here in the East Cape. Does NUMSA have a policy on co-operatives? NUMSA in its Central Committee has taken a decision to support co-ops. But NUMSA is still busy thinking of how we can formulate a policy on co-operatives. We are working towards such a policy. So what is NUMSA's aim in giving support to co-ops? In other words, how can organised workers benefit from the support that NUMSA is giving to these co-op activities?.
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- Date Issued: 1988-06-12
Transport and General Workers Union: Progress report on developments in TGWU during the period August 1987-July 1988
- Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Date: 1988-08-08
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: eng
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103255 , vital:32226
- Description: The past year has been a very dramatic one for TGWU. It has been a year of enormous growth in membership, and at the same time a year where we have had to deal with the traumas of numerous mergers (both into TGWU, and TGWU membership into other unions). We have had to endure the difficulties of being without a physical locality for our head office for three months (after the bomb attack on Cosatu House), and more recently the arson attack on our head office premises. In an attempt to cope with the growth of the union we have developed new structures, and have expanded our staff at all levels. The year has also of course been a very dramatic one for the trade union movement as a whole, and for Cosatu in particular. The two most serious features of this have been the restricting of Cosatu in terms of the State of Emergency (along with 17 other organisations), and the proposed Labour Relations Amendment Bill. TGWU has tried to address these issues with the seriousness and determined opposition that they deserve. As a result, the state has seen fit to clash with our members, as witnessed by the detention (and now trial) of our first vice president, Comrade Alfred Ndlovu, and at least 15 other TGWU memebers over the past year. Nine TGWU members are still suffering in the isolation and evilness of detention.
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- Date Issued: 1988-08-08
Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter November, 1988
- Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Date: 1988-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: eng
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102764 , vital:32172
- Description: In August, 3 Putco TGWU drivers and one unemployed man were sentenced to death in the Supreme Court in Durban. The judge said they were guilty of murdering another bus driver, Shezi, in November 1986. How did all this come about? The crisis started in October 1986. The traffic manager at Durban South Putco depot wanted to discipline a driver who was in an accident. But the manager did not follow the disciplinary procedure so workers lodged a grievance against the manager. The manager did not come to the grievance hearing.
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- Date Issued: 1988-11
Transport and General Workers Union: congress report financial progress report for period July 1988 to November 1989
- Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Date: 1989-07
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: eng
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103428 , vital:32245
- Description: In reviewing the developments in T&G finances over the past eighteen months, we can safely say that T&G finances have certainly stabilized over the period. However, in case we get too excited at this news, a note of caution. While our income from subscriptions has steadily improved, due mainly to the Congress ’88 increase in rate (from R3 to R4); our expenditure has in relation also increased to the point that if we continue with our current expenditure pace of October ’89 and November 89, we will soon return to our previous problem of constant threat of bank overdraft! We are a long way off self-sufficiency and still rely heavily on our overseas funders for assistance in the areas of legal fees and our education programme. This report will focus on both the positive developments in T&G finances over these past eighteen months, as well as the problem areas which we need to seriously tackle from here!
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- Date Issued: 1989-07
Transport and General Workers Union: Aid Service Newsletter November, 1989
- Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Date: 1989-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: eng
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102929 , vital:32190
- Description: A weekend Advice Office Labour Training Course was held at the Cape Town Trade Union Library at the end of September. It was a shortened version of the annual training course for advice office workers held in March and April, and was organised for the benefit of new recruits to the Aid Service. The course was attended by a number of T&GWU Aid Service people from the Athlone and Stellenbosch offices, community advice office workers, and trade union office staff. In all about 25 people attended on both days. The course was designed to give basic information on trade unions and industrial relations, as well as interviewing skills and practical guides to unemployment insurance, worker's compensation and pensions.
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- Date Issued: 1989-11
Transport and General Workers Union: Congress 1-3 December 1989, Pietermaritzburg: Progress report
- Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Date: 1989-12
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: eng
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102999 , vital:32199
- Description: The last eighteen months have seen tremendous growth in Transport and General Workers Union. Numerically the union has grown from 26 000 signed up members to over 40 000 in the period under review. But it is not only in numbers that TGWU has grown. The period has been one in which new structures of the union have been built, and where new organisational direction has been sought in all sectors. The period has been one during which for the first time in four years, the union has not had to divert its attention to putting into effect complex mergers and transfers of membership. It has also of course been a period charged by major national political developments - from the passing of the Labour Relations Amendment Act in September 1988, to the release of seven ANC leaders from Robben Island in October of this year.
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- Date Issued: 1989-12
Build NUMSA: NUMSA Shopstewards 1996-1999: a guide for NUMSA shop stewards
- Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
- Date: 199u
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68688 , vital:29305
- Description: The manual serves as a guide for shopstewards of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), in enabling shopstewards to support the union members. Included is the duties of a shopsteward, information pertaining to NUMSA, as well as an outline of the activities of NUMSA.
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- Date Issued: 199u
Chemical Workers Industrial Union: Shop steward foundation course
- Authors: Chemical Workers Industrial Union
- Date: 199u
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68700 , vital:29306
- Description: This document is the shop steward foundation course manual.
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- Date Issued: 199u
FAWU's position on food security & the job summit
- Authors: Food and Allied Workers' Union
- Date: 199-?
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105736 , vital:32563
- Description: The current economic dispensation has created a dilemma: economic liberalisation has meant that consumers have access to food at lower prices. However, employment has suffered as local producers have been unable to compete, and been pushed out of the market. We are left with trying to balance the concerns of consumers and producers - something that has not yet been addressed in any systematic way. In trying to achieve this balance, closer attention must be paid to the achievement of household food security. The achievement of household food security places several macro-economic and micro- economic processes under scrutiny. As currently implemented, GEAR has failed to achieve its own economic targets, thereby reinforcing poverty. The "Poverty and Inequality" report has identified food security as an important factor to eradicate poverty. What is now required is an implementation forum that deals with the recommendations of that report.
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- Date Issued: 199-?
Bulimia Nervosa: a case study in cognitive psychotherapy
- Authors: Kanfer, Josephine
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/192988 , vital:45287
- Description: This project uses the case-study method to illustrate the application of integrating varied accepted modes of psychotherapeutic interventions. It concentrates on the first 22 out-patient sessions of therapy with a diagnosed bulimic, spanning a 6 month period. A brief summary of the subsequent 10 follow-up sessions is also given. The case presented is of a 22 year old female student diagnosed as bulimic (of 7 year duration), dysthymic and with a dependent personality disorder. She has symptoms of anxiety. She has a history of anorexia nervosa. Fairburn's (1985) cognitive-behavioural programme for bulimia was used initially. Its structured framework with the emphasis on the eating behaviour was an essential aspect in contributing to the success of the initial phase of the therapy. This patient had had previously experienced 8 sessions of non-directive depth psychotherapy which had confused and compounded her problems. The structure had provided her with a sense of control. In implementing the second stage of Fairburn's programme, where the focus is cognitive, the patient could no longer work in this this structured manner. The attempts to implement the standard cognitive techniques provided the catalyst for activating deeper underlying emotions and cognitions. Furthermore, this gave impetus to work actively with the interpersonal aspect of the therapeutic relationship. Young's (1989) model for identifying Early Maladaptive Schemas could be applied. The focus then moved from the behaviours and dealt with these schemas as activated in the therapeutic relationship. The patient was able to make links to her family and her past. The therapy proved successful, as not only were the behavioural symptoms alleviated, but also the patient's interpersonal problems which underlay her personality disorder were accessed. The patient had become more self-assertive, her mood had improved considerably, she was less concerned with body image and more accepting of herself. She had become more reality based and her interpersonal relational abi1ity had improved. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1990
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- Date Issued: 1990
The silent patient: a consideration of Gendlin's recommendations in the treatment of a silent adolescent
- Authors: Le Roux, J D
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193054 , vital:45294
- Description: This study comprises a dialogue between Gendlin's recommendations on the treatment of the silent patient and case-material taken from 39 sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy with a 16 year old adolescent. The most characteristic feature of the therapy with this young person, was her pattern of silence and unresponsiveness. The aim of this study is to ascertain the usefulness of Gendlin's recommendations in the therapy of this category of patient. The dialogue between the suggested recommendations and the case- material served to illustrate the point that Gendlin's recommendations are of great value in the treatment of the silent adolescent. The value of these recommendations lie in their ability to comment meaningfully on the process of therapy with the silent patient by providing not only skills and techniques, but also a conceptual framework within which to contextualize the therapy. The recommendations were also found to be sensitive to some of the key issues of relevance to adolescence as a developmental phase. The case-study method was deemed an appropriate structure within which to conduct this examination. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1990
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- Date Issued: 1990
Constitution of the National Union of Public Service & Allied Workers
- Authors: National Union of Public Service & Allied Workers
- Date: 1990-06
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105879 , vital:32579
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- Date Issued: 1990-06
Cosatu Living Wage Conference towards a socio-economic programme
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1990-06
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105167 , vital:32471
- Description: There is now wide agreement that Cosatu should formulate a socio-economic programme to co-ordinate its present campaigns and collective bargaining and to influence the structure of the future economy. Our success in a Living Wage Campaign depends on the restructuring of the economy so that it can meet the needs and aspirations of the majority of our people.
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- Date Issued: 1990-06
COSATU: Socio-economic Programme
- Date: 1990-06
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68993 , vital:29347
- Description: There is now wide agreement that Cosatu should formulate a socio-economic programme to co-ordinate its present campaigns and collective bargaining and to influence the structure of the future economy. Our success in a Living Wage Campaign depends on the restructuring of the economy so that it can meet the needs and aspirations of the majority of our people. A Living Wage depends on us developing a productive economy, a fair and equitable distribution of wealth and income, and a democratic State within which the working class can effectively exercise its political power.
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- Date Issued: 1990-06
COSATU: Socio-economic Programme
- Date: 1990-06
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68769 , vital:29316
- Description: There is now wide agreement that Cosatu should formulate a socio-economic programme to co-ordinate its present campaigns and collective bargaining and to influence the structure of the future economy. Our success in a Living Wage Campaign depends on the restructuring of the economy so that it can meet the needs and aspirations of the majority of our people. A Living Wage depends on us developing a productive economy, a fair and equitable distribution of wealth and income, and a democratic State within which the working class can effectively exercise its political power.
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- Date Issued: 1990-06
Heroines of the struggle, Vol 1: women must claim their rights
- Authors: COSATU , Matlala, William
- Date: 1990-06
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105203 , vital:32477
- Description: The booklet serves as a commemoration to the heroines and veterans of the struggle. The brave women of the struggle, women who hold knife from its sharpest edge. Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression. The booklet is the product of COSATU Archives in partnership with Rosa Luxemburg. , The information is compiled by NANDIPAMITI (COSATU Archivist) pictures by William Matlala and COSATU Photo Archive
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- Date Issued: 1990-06