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Download full textDe Wet, Corene – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
Notwithstanding legislation and individual schools' codes of conduct prohibiting bullying, bullying is an escalating problem in South African schools. It seems as if existing anti-bullying policies, programmes and intervention strategies are failing to address the scourge. Bibliotherapy has been identified as a way to strengthen schools' existing…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Bullying, Fiction, Didacticism
Joubert, Carmen; Hay, Johnnie – South African Journal of Education, 2019
This study explored how culturally relevant stories could be used to bolster the lay counselling competencies of teachers furthering their studies in an honours degree in learner support -- while working in schools with limited resources and at-risk children. One possible way of supporting teachers to be effective in the lay counselling role is to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teacher Education, Counselor Training, Lay People
Direct linkTheron, Linda; Cockcroft, Kate; Wood, Lesley – School Psychology International, 2017
Resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, draws on personal and social ecological resources (i.e., caregiving and community supports). Previous research--conducted mostly in the Global North--has shown that bibliotherapy offers a way to support children in identifying and utilizing resilience-enabling resources. In so doing,…
Descriptors: African Culture, Folk Culture, Intervention, Resilience (Psychology)
Heath, Melissa Allen; Donald, David R.; Theron, Linda C.; Lyon, Rachel Crook – School Psychology International, 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 one or both parents dying of HIV/AIDS. In comparison to other countries, South Africa has the highest per capita of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Intervention, Therapeutic Environment
