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The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24745 The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS Moletsane, Mokgadi Kekae Mohangi, Kesh sallyj53@telkomsa.net John, Sally Ann Masekitlana African belief systems Ancestors bewitchment Therapeutic interventions Developmental adaptive function Projective identification story-telling Traditional african healers Indigenization UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. This study is an investigation into the use of an African indigenous narrative game, Masekitlana, which I used as a therapeutic medium for four children, aged eight to 12 years. The participants are of Zulu origin and culture and were affected and orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS. The game involved the participants in activities, such as hitting stones together or arranging them at will, that they felt familiar with and that enabled freer verbal expression from them. I employed a single-system research design that consisted of mixed methods approaches in the form of a qualitative thematic analysis and a quantitative graphic presentation of the results. The research design was a time series design that involved using, at four different times along the process of therapy, the measure of the Roberts-2 test (ethnic version). Therapy consisted of three sessions of standard of care therapy (therapy that was routinely being used in the psychology clinic) and three intervention therapy sessions of Masekitlana. I found the mixed-methods approach to be a practice-friendly form of research as it helped to describe the concerns of the participants in depth and enabled a concrete, quantitative conclusion about the efficacy of Masekitlana as an intervention. Syncretism of both approaches meant that qualitative data helped to clarify and confirm the findings of quantitative data and vice versa. Qualitative analysis showed how Masekitlana helped participants to express their traditional African beliefs, such as belief in the guidance of their ancestors, in the influence of bewitchment in their lives, and in the animation of the natural world. Thematic analysis also revealed the anger that participants felt resulting from the sense of disempowerment they experienced in Children’s Homes and from their separation from their biological families, and their need to sublimate this anger into future careers in the police force or alternatively to resort to crime. Thematic analysis also revealed the strategies employed by participants for coping with peer conflict in the Children’s Homes, and the challenges they face with schooling difficulties. Quantitative analysis revealed how participants progressed to complex forms of adaptive functioning and explanation of situations in their lives as a result of Masekitlana therapy. Recommendations arising out of this study are that psychologists strive to use forms of therapy that are familiar to the cultural backgrounds of indigenous children, and that training psychologists learn about the cultural beliefs of their patients and be exposed to the rituals used in traditional environments in order to understand indigenous clients. Psychologists should also be aware of the fact that, with the effects of television on children, and with present globalization and ease of international travel, children of African origin and culture are a mixture of traditional African and modern Western values. Therefore an integration of Western and indigenous forms of psychology might be considered. Educational Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-06T18:16:01Z 2013-05-17 2013-09-06T18:16:01Z 2013-04-16 2012 2013-05-16 Thesis John, SA 2012, The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24745 > D13/4/398/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24745 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05162013-094413/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Masekitlana African belief systems Ancestors bewitchment Therapeutic interventions Developmental adaptive function Projective identification story-telling Traditional african healers Indigenization UCTD The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS |
| title | The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS |
| title_full | The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS |
| title_fullStr | The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS |
| title_full_unstemmed | The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS |
| title_short | The use of Masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by HIV/AIDS |
| title_sort | use of masekitlana as a therapeutic technique for children affected by hiv aids |
| topic | Masekitlana African belief systems Ancestors bewitchment Therapeutic interventions Developmental adaptive function Projective identification story-telling Traditional african healers Indigenization UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24745 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05162013-094413/ |