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Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/45893 Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity Ferreira, Ronel Ebersohn, L. (Liesel) Mnguni-Letsoalo, Maria Annah UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. In South Africa the magnitude of poverty and the number of vulnerable individuals within the population calls for comprehensive strategies to support individuals at all levels. One possible way of supporting vulnerable people may be through participatory research with community volunteers who are willing to support others in need. This study forms part of a longitudinal project that has been ongoing since 2003 (STAR, Supportive Teachers, Assets and Resilience), focusing on the role that schools and teachers may fulfil in psycho-socially supporting vulnerable communities, thereby enhancing resilience. Following the progress and outcome of STAR, the STAR intervention was adapted in 2011 for use with community volunteers. As an outcome, the SHEBA (Supporting Home Environments in Beating Adversity) intervention was implemented with community volunteers during 2012 and 2013. As such, my study is conceptualised against the background of the STAR and SHEBA projects. As part of the broad SHEBA project (Ferreira & Ebersöhn) I specifically focused on how community volunteers may implement the skill of memory work in supporting clients facing poverty-related adversity. I employed an intervention design applying Participatory Reflection and Action (PRA) principles. For data collection and documentation, I utilised PRA-based workshops, individual interviews, observation, field notes, a research diary and audio-visual techniques. I selected interpretivism as meta-theory and relied on the asset-based approach as theoretical framework. Thirty-eight community volunteers participated in my study. Following thematic inductive analysis, three themes emerged, relating to the cases with which community volunteers utilised memory work; the benefits community volunteers experienced and reported on, also on behalf of their clients; and the challenges community volunteers experienced when utilising memory work with clients facing poverty-related adversity. Based on the findings of the study, I can conclude that memory work can successfully be used by community volunteers with clients in poverty contexts. Despite certain challenges and myths that need to be addressed, community volunteers may feel equipped to facilitate change when applying memory work as activity with vulnerable individuals, thereby empowering them to deal with challenges by relying on existing assets and resources. Subsequently, both community volunteers and vulnerable clients can benefit by of utilising memory work as a supportive technique or potential therapeutic tool. tm2015 Educational Psychology PhD Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:05:52Z 2015-07-02T11:05:52Z 2015/04/29 2014 Thesis Mnguni-Letsoalo, MA 2014, Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45893> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45893 en © 2015 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 University of Pretoria |
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| title | Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity |
| title_full | Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity |
| title_fullStr | Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity |
| title_short | Volunteers’ use of memory work to promote psycho-social support of clients facing poverty-related adversity |
| title_sort | volunteers use of memory work to promote psycho social support of clients facing poverty related adversity |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45893 |