Adrian D Van Breda
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 354974 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adrian D Van Breda |
| NOMBRES | Adrian D |
| APELLIDO | Van Breda |
| FIRMA | VAN BREDA A D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9984-9180 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Constructing and reconstructing memory and identity among care-experienced young people in Ethiopia
The experiences and outcomes of children who grew up in out-of-home care (such as residential care, foster care, or adoption) are increasingly attracting scholarly attention in both the Global North and the Global South. However, research on leaving care is often atheoretical and descriptive. In addition, in Ethiopia, where this study is rooted, there is concern over the loss of memory and identity among children in care and those leaving care, r…
Caregivers’ Perspectives and Experiences on the Transition of Youth with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Out of Residential Care
This paper presents the findings of a longitudinal study conducted in South Africa that investigated the perspectives and experiences of informal caregivers in assisting youth with intellectual disabilities and/or autism as they transitioned from residential care towards young adulthood. This was a component of a larger study that examined the transition of six care-leavers. This paper focuses only on the interviews conducted with caregivers. The…
Leveraging the Use of Publicly Available Social Media Posts for Sensitive Adolescent Research
Adolescent research concerning sensitive topics presents unique challenges due to the complexities of navigating ethical considerations and establishing trust within this population. In contrast, this paper proposes a methodology that leverages existing online content produced by adolescents and posted on social media platforms for data collection and qualitative analysis. Drawing upon our previous work with female adolescents who had intimate im…
I am their child. They are my parents too”
Care Leaving and Social Capital
Theorizing continues to be a challenge within the burgeoning field of care leaving. This article considers whether ‘social capital’ contributes to explaining the care‐leaving experience. Various views of what constitutes social capital are explored, and a three‐category typology is presented. Social capital theory is explored through the application of descriptive themes from a study undertaken across four African countries. The study adopted a r…
A scoping review of research on family resilience in South Africa
Families are a central building block of society. The social work profession has always been invested in strengthening family life, and one of the ways this can be done is by building family resilience. South African social workers should base their work with families on solid research on family resilience and conduct some of this research themselves. The study aimed to answer the question: What is known about the research on family resilience in…
Enablers and barriers to acquiring and maintaining employment among care leavers in South Africa
You are nothing and you have nothing
Care-Leavers’ Efforts to Build Resilience Through Relationships of Belonging
This article aims to deepen and theorise our understanding of the need for belonging among young people transitioning out of residential care. The study adopted a qualitative approach, with a sample of 31 residential care-leavers in South Africa, who were followed-up annually for seven years. It addresses the lack of theoretically informed studies and builds an indigenous theory to explain the care-leaving journey. This paper presents findings on…
Other-Initiated Interactions That Contribute to Resilient Outcomes Among Young Adults Raised by Caregivers Who Misuse Alcohol
This study offers an understanding of interactional resilience processes between young adults raised by caregivers who misused alcohol and people in their social-ecology who initiated supportive interactions that enabled them to achieve better-than-expected outcomes. Multiple in-depth face-to-face interviews and a draw-and-write methodology were used with 15 National University of Lesotho undergraduate students raised by caregivers who misused al…
Care-Leavers’ Experiences of How Managed Opportunities for Independence Contributed to Building Resilience
Care-leaving literature widely utilizes resilience theory. Resilience research is also increasingly interested in the factors that promote resilient functioning during the transition out of care. However, research on how to build young people’s resilience while in care is limited. This paper introduces the notion of “managed opportunities for independence” (MOI), which are guided activities for young people that involve them acting independently.…
A Collaborative Emic Methodology for Developing Practice Guidelines for Leaving Alternative Care in Resource-Constrained Settings
Preparing young people who have been removed from their parents for leaving alternative care is vital to their success as young adults. Most research on this preparation centres on care-leavers' views of their support requirements. However, there is little evidence on how to develop practice guidelines for leaving care that may work in real-world settings. This paper aims to achieve two things. First, it presents a first-hand narrative account of…
Youth in Transition
While there is a substantial body of leaving care research, the theorization of care leaving has been more limited. Only a few studies have incorporated a life course perspective, mainly in Global North contexts where life course perspectives may differ significantly from those in the Global South, including Africa. Drawing on findings from a feasibility research study, this paper contributes to the emerging international literature on theorizing…
Widening the care gap? An international comparison of care leaving in the time of Covid-19
Following COVID-19, young people who transitioned to adulthood from different types of alternative care (care leavers) experienced an exacerbation of the challenges they had before the pandemic. The purpose of this international survey was to explore the range of policy and service responses that have or have not been implemented around the world to support care leavers during COVID-19. Responses were collected from care-leaving researchers from …
Caregivers’ perspectives on preparing girls to leave care in Ethiopia
Purpose Research on caregivers’ experiences of and perspectives on preparing young people to leave care in Africa is lacking. A clearer understanding of caregivers’ practice and experience is important for developing improved care-leaving services. The aim of this study is to describe the experiences and perceptions of caregivers providing care-leaving services at one residential care institution in Addis Abba, Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approa…
Affording managed opportunities for independence to build looked-after young people’s resilience
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the contribution of what the authors have termed, “managed opportunities for independence” (MOI) in building the resilience of young people in care. Design/methodology/approach The study used a qualitative, grounded theory methodology. Nine child and youth care workers were purposively sampled from various child and youth and care centres in South Africa. Findings Findings indicate that MOI contribu…
Contribution of psychosocial vulnerability and resilience to academic achievement of primary school children in South Africa
The aim of this article is to explore the contribution of psychosocial vulnerability and resilience to the academic achievement of primary school children attending a low‐fee, private, primary school in a township in Gauteng province, South Africa. In poorer communities, family and community challenges can be overwhelming, compromising the capacity of children to engage in education and achieve academically. The study draws on quantitative data f…
Nonhuman Systems as a Source of Interactional Resilience Among University Students Raised by Alcohol-Abusing Caregivers in Lesotho
Research on the resilience of young people who were raised by substance-abusing caregivers is limited. This study aims to explore the internal interactional processes between nonhuman systems and young adults raised by alcohol-abusing caregivers in Lesotho. Multiple in-depth interviews were conducted and a draw-and-write technique applied with 15 university students, six of whom described having interacted with diverse nonhuman systems in their e…
Stationäre Kinder- und Jugendhilfe im internationalen Vergleich – Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten für junge Erwachsene und die Bedeutung von Care Leaver-Selbstvertretungen
Care Leaver*innen stellen weltweit eine besonders vulnerable und benachteiligte Gruppe junger Menschen dar. Bislang sind jedoch kaum international vergleichende Studien vorhanden, die gesetzliche Regelungen für Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten und Hilfeformen für junge Menschen in den Blick nehmen. Der Beitrag greift diese Forschungslücke auf und untersucht gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen, sowie das Vorhandensein von Care Leaver-Selbstvertretungen, in 3…
Experiences of Young People Preparing to Transition Out of Cluster Foster Care in South Africa
Leaving Care in Africa
Female care leavers' journey to young adulthood from residential care in South Africa
The journey from care to young adulthood is often accompanied by many challenges, making care leavers one of society's most vulnerable populations. Although research on young people leaving residential care is gaining increased attention globally, there is limited research that focuses on female care leavers. This article describes the psychosocial resilience processes that facilitate successful transitioning of young women as they journey out of…
Extended care
Patterns of criminal activity among residential care-leavers in South Africa
A multinational comparison of care-leaving policy and legislation
Care-leavers – those transitioning from alternative care towards young adulthood – are widely recognized as a vulnerable population, yet child protection legislation seldom applies to them because they have reached adulthood. Despite this, little internationally comparative research on care-leaving policy and legislation has been conducted. This paper maps multinational policy and legislation and its impact on the services to care-leavers and the…
A multinational comparison of care-leaving policy and legislation
Care-leavers – those transitioning from alternative care towards young adulthood – are widely recognized as a vulnerable population, yet child protection legislation seldom applies to them because they have reached adulthood. Despite this, little internationally comparative research on care-leaving policy and legislation has been conducted. This paper maps multinational policy and legislation and its impact on the services to care-leavers and the…
Extended care
Journey towards independent living
The journey out of care and towards independent living is a challenge for many care-leavers. There has been little research into the social processes involved in this care-leaving journey. This paper presents the results of a grounded theory investigation into the care-leaving journeys of nine young men who had, several years previously, been in the care of Girls & Boys Town in South Africa. Working from a resilience perspective, with an ecologic…
Research review
Approximately 21,000 children were accommodated in residential care in South Africa in 2011/2012. Despite this large number, and the state's substantial financial investment in residential care, there has, until recently, been little research on care‐leaving: the transition out of care due to reaching adulthood. Furthermore, much of the research available has not been published in international journals. This article reports on a systematic revie…
The contribution of resilience to one-year independent living outcomes of care-leavers in South Africa
Female care leavers' journey to young adulthood from residential care in South Africa
The journey from care to young adulthood is often accompanied by many challenges, making care leavers one of society's most vulnerable populations. Although research on young people leaving residential care is gaining increased attention globally, there is limited research that focuses on female care leavers. This article describes the psychosocial resilience processes that facilitate successful transitioning of young women as they journey out of…
The Youth Ecological-Resilience Scale
Purpose: In South Africa, the field of scale development and utilization in social work is referred to as “ecometrics,” that is, the measurement of ecological constructs. There is, however, a lack of ecometric tools for social workers, particularly regarding strengths or resilience. Given the high vulnerability of South African youth, this article describes the design and validation of a youth resilience measure. Method: The Youth Ecological-Resi…
A comparison of youth resilience across seven S outh A frican sites
The resilience of children and youth is an increasingly important area of research. Young people growing up in distressed communities, characterized by poverty, crime and family troubles, are particularly vulnerable. Resilience can assist these young people in navigating through these challenges towards independent living, particularly as they transition out of adolescence and into young adulthood. Children in S outh A frica are almost universall…
Interaction between possible selves and the resilience of care-leavers in South Africa
Developmental social case work
Social development has been adopted as South Africa’s social welfare approach and is increasingly being adopted in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The translation of developmental social welfare to social work has, however, been difficult for many social workers. A particularly challenging aspect of this translation concerns the practice of social case work within a social development approach, a topic that has received virtually …
Patterns of criminal activity among residential care-leavers in South Africa
Journey towards independent living
Among the many youth transitioning to young adulthood, a group that has been found to be particularly vulnerable is young people transitioning out of care, particularly residential care. Research on this population of youth has burgeoned over the past few decades, but in South Africa it remains limited. This article focuses on the resilience processes that facilitate better transitions of young women out of care and towards independent living. It…
Affording managed opportunities for independence to build looked-after young people’s resilience
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the contribution of what the authors have termed, “managed opportunities for independence” (MOI) in building the resilience of young people in care. Design/methodology/approach The study used a qualitative, grounded theory methodology. Nine child and youth care workers were purposively sampled from various child and youth and care centres in South Africa. Findings Findings indicate that MOI contribu…
You are nothing and you have nothing
Possible Selves
Social workers often work with the most marginalised and deprived segments of society. This paper addresses such a segment in South Africa — a group of 10 orphaned or vulnerable young people, living in group foster care in a township. In such contexts, hope for the future becomes frayed as these children have few opportunities of escaping the trap of poverty. The author introduces and mobilises the theory of possible selves developed by Markus an…
Contribution of psychosocial vulnerability and resilience to academic achievement of primary school children in South Africa
The aim of this article is to explore the contribution of psychosocial vulnerability and resilience to the academic achievement of primary school children attending a low‐fee, private, primary school in a township in Gauteng province, South Africa. In poorer communities, family and community challenges can be overwhelming, compromising the capacity of children to engage in education and achieve academically. The study draws on quantitative data f…
Experiences of “I” and “we” among former looked‐after children in South A frica
This article examines the care experiences of former looked‐after children from a residential care setting in South Africa. There is only limited research among care leavers in South Africa, and even less on their experiences of being in care. Six young adults who had been in residential care participated in individual and focus group interviews. The research was informed by Rogers' person‐centred approach. Two central themes emerged from the dat…
Male care-leavers' transfer of social skills from care into independent living in South Africa
Stigma as 'othering' among Christian theology students in South Africa
HIV is a health and developmental crisis that has profoundly challenged the Christian church in sub-Saharan Africa. Responding to stigma and prejudice against HIV and people living with HIV and AIDS has been a major concern of theologians and Christian leaders. However, Christians themselves and the church as a community are equally prone to stigma and prejudice. The author contends that this stigma is grounded in the dynamic of 'othering', which…
The Heimler Scale of Social Functioning
Journal Article The Heimler Scale of Social Functioning: A Partial Validation in South Africa Get access Adrian D. Van Breda Adrian D. Van Breda He is now head of the Military Health Research Centre of the South African National Defence Force. Correspondence address: Adrian D. Van Breda, Military Health Research Centre Manager, Military Psychological Institute, Private Bag X02, Gezina 0031, South Africa. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other w…
Possible Selves
Social workers often work with the most marginalised and deprived segments of society. This paper addresses such a segment in South Africa — a group of 10 orphaned or vulnerable young people, living in group foster care in a township. In such contexts, hope for the future becomes frayed as these children have few opportunities of escaping the trap of poverty. The author introduces and mobilises the theory of possible selves developed by Markus an…
Using Evidence to Inform Practice for Community and Organizational Change – Edited by Maria Roberts‐DeGennaro and Sondra J. Fogel
Military Social Work Thinking in South Africa
Military social workers in South Africa have developed distinctive ways of thinking about military social work. These developments have been influenced by various contextual factors, such as the transition of South Africa to a non-racial democracy in 1994 and the establishment of a military social work research capacity. These factors contributed to new ways of thinking, such as the recognition that military social work has a mandate to facilitat…
Stigma as 'othering' among Christian theology students in South Africa
HIV is a health and developmental crisis that has profoundly challenged the Christian church in sub-Saharan Africa. Responding to stigma and prejudice against HIV and people living with HIV and AIDS has been a major concern of theologians and Christian leaders. However, Christians themselves and the church as a community are equally prone to stigma and prejudice. The author contends that this stigma is grounded in the dynamic of 'othering', which…
Journey towards independent living
The journey out of care and towards independent living is a challenge for many care-leavers. There has been little research into the social processes involved in this care-leaving journey. This paper presents the results of a grounded theory investigation into the care-leaving journeys of nine young men who had, several years previously, been in the care of Girls & Boys Town in South Africa. Working from a resilience perspective, with an ecologic…
A comparison of youth resilience across seven S outh A frican sites
The resilience of children and youth is an increasingly important area of research. Young people growing up in distressed communities, characterized by poverty, crime and family troubles, are particularly vulnerable. Resilience can assist these young people in navigating through these challenges towards independent living, particularly as they transition out of adolescence and into young adulthood. Children in S outh A frica are almost universall…
Developmental social case work
Social development has been adopted as South Africa’s social welfare approach and is increasingly being adopted in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The translation of developmental social welfare to social work has, however, been difficult for many social workers. A particularly challenging aspect of this translation concerns the practice of social case work within a social development approach, a topic that has received virtually …
The Youth Ecological-Resilience Scale
Purpose: In South Africa, the field of scale development and utilization in social work is referred to as “ecometrics,” that is, the measurement of ecological constructs. There is, however, a lack of ecometric tools for social workers, particularly regarding strengths or resilience. Given the high vulnerability of South African youth, this article describes the design and validation of a youth resilience measure. Method: The Youth Ecological-Resi…
Women Claiming Space in the Military
As the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) continues to expand its role in promoting peace and stability in Africa, the Minister of Defence has called for the full and equal participation of women in all aspects of the SANDF, including military operations. Many South African women embrace this call, though not without difficulty. This paper aims to describe key aspects of women’s experiences of their participation in military operations.…
Male care-leavers' transfer of social skills from care into independent living in South Africa
The contribution of resilience to one-year independent living outcomes of care-leavers in South Africa
A Critical Review of Resilience Theory and Its Relevance for Social Work
As resilience theory gains traction as a theoretical framework for research in social work, it is important to engage with it critically. This article provides a critical review of resilience theory, drawing on an array of key authors, dating back fifty years. The review addresses three aspects of resilience theory: its definition, the construction of adversity and outcomes, and the nature and scope of resilience processes. The relevance of resil…
A critical review of South African child and youth resilience studies, 2009–2017
Reclaiming Resilience for Social Work
Journey towards independent living
Among the many youth transitioning to young adulthood, a group that has been found to be particularly vulnerable is young people transitioning out of care, particularly residential care. Research on this population of youth has burgeoned over the past few decades, but in South Africa it remains limited. This article focuses on the resilience processes that facilitate better transitions of young women out of care and towards independent living. It…
Experiences of “I” and “we” among former looked‐after children in South A frica
This article examines the care experiences of former looked‐after children from a residential care setting in South Africa. There is only limited research among care leavers in South Africa, and even less on their experiences of being in care. Six young adults who had been in residential care participated in individual and focus group interviews. The research was informed by Rogers' person‐centred approach. Two central themes emerged from the dat…
Research review
Approximately 21,000 children were accommodated in residential care in South Africa in 2011/2012. Despite this large number, and the state's substantial financial investment in residential care, there has, until recently, been little research on care‐leaving: the transition out of care due to reaching adulthood. Furthermore, much of the research available has not been published in international journals. This article reports on a systematic revie…
Interaction between possible selves and the resilience of care-leavers in South Africa
Raising African Voices in the Global Dialogue on Care-Leaving and Emerging Adulthood
Globalization of knowledge and scholarship raises the challenges of dialogue between Global North and South. Northern knowledge and voice remain privileged, while writing from the South often goes unread. This is true also in emerging adulthood and care-leaving scholarship. The special issue of Emerging Adulthood titled “Care-Leaving in Africa” is the first collection of essays on care-leaving by African scholars. It presents both care-leaving an…
Leaving Care in Africa
Female care leavers' journey to young adulthood from residential care in South Africa
The journey from care to young adulthood is often accompanied by many challenges, making care leavers one of society's most vulnerable populations. Although research on young people leaving residential care is gaining increased attention globally, there is limited research that focuses on female care leavers. This article describes the psychosocial resilience processes that facilitate successful transitioning of young women as they journey out of…
Extended care
Patterns of criminal activity among residential care-leavers in South Africa
A multinational comparison of care-leaving policy and legislation
Care-leavers – those transitioning from alternative care towards young adulthood – are widely recognized as a vulnerable population, yet child protection legislation seldom applies to them because they have reached adulthood. Despite this, little internationally comparative research on care-leaving policy and legislation has been conducted. This paper maps multinational policy and legislation and its impact on the services to care-leavers and the…
Psychology (31 obras) · Sociology (28 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (21 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Social Psychology (18 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Psychological resilience (15 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (13 obras) · Resilience and Mental Health (13 obras) · Family Support in Illness (12 obras)