Browsing by Subject "emotional support"

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    Assessing an exit strategy for prostituted women
    (2011-11) UCT Knowledge Co-op
    This is a psychological study that looked at the exiting strategies of prostituted women using an interpretative phenomenological approach. It aimed to provide feedback for Embrace Dignity, a Cape Town-based NGO, on how effective their model was in providing an exit from sex work for prostituted women.
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    Exploring prostituted women's experiences of a South African exit intervention: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
    (2011-10) Heiberg, Tessa
    Prostitution is the oldest form of oppression. Many prostituted women in South Africa wish to exit sex work, but are unable to because they have no other means of earning money. There is a dearth of research available on assisting prostituted women to exit sex work in South Africa. This study explored the effectiveness of a Cape Town-based NGO's - Embrace Dignity - exit intervention for prostituted women. Using semi-structured interviews it investigated the experiences of eight prostituted women in Cape Town. The research goal was to be able to inform improvements to the intervention for exit. An interpretative phenomenological approach was used to analyse interviews of women's experiences of the intervention. Findings revealed that attempting to exit prostitution in South Africa is an incredibly difficult and deeply complex process. An exploration of women's experiences of Embrace Dignity suggested that whilst it provides emotional and social support to prostituted women, it does not address their physical needs, most importantly that of employment. This study reveals that although emotional support plays a crucial role in assisting prostituted women to exit, it is secondary to the urgent physical support needed to satisfy the basic survival needs of prostituted women living in extreme poverty in South Africa.
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    Exploring prostituted women's experiences of a South African exit intervention: an interpretative phenomenological analysis - summary report
    (2011-10) Heiberg, Tessa
    Research on exit strategies for street workers as well as documenting and identifying support strategies for the self-help groups.
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    TEDI 3 Week 4 - Conversations on Listening to Children with Visual Impairment
    (2019-06-01) Watermeyer, Brian; Leteane, Benedict; Botha, Michelle; Lourens, Heidi
    In this video, members of the panel discuss the emotional adjustments they had to go through once they entered the special schooling environment, from learning new skills (such as Braille) to receiving little to no emotional support. They also discussed how they as people with visual disabilities felt that they needed to manage the emotions of their friends and family members, and how their educational and home environments didn't encourage honest emotional conversations of the difficulty of living with visual disability. They also discuss the similarities between the way in which people with disabilities are treated and the segregationist policies that structure South African society in the past and continue to influence South African culture in the 21st century.