Daphney Mawila
Biographic Data
| ID | 4600031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daphney Mawila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daphney |
| FAMILY NAME | Mawila |
| SIGNATURE | MAWILA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8345-0888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Navigating my way through trial and error’ … resilience of newly qualified teachers in special educational needs schools for learners with physical disabilities
Starting a career in teaching is accompanied by much excitement for many newly qualified teachers. Nonetheless, novice teachers working in special educational needs schools for learners with physical disabilities face several adversities. These include lack of competence, psychological distress and anxiety. However, there are protective factors that enable their resilience despite the adversities. This qualitative study investigated the resilienc…
Practise It Until You Master the Skill
Globally, many learners with severe intellectual disability face multiple adversities. These include poverty, abuse and lack of resources. Resilience factors need to be made accessible to enable learners to bounce back from these adversities. However, few studies were found on the resilience of learners with severe intellectual disability. The study sought to investigate factors that enable the resilience of learners with severe intellectual disa…
When I don’t drink my pills, I go crazy!’ Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication
Background: The global prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasing. Children with ADHD are exposed to various risk factors that adversely affect their quality of life. Treatment is paramount to counteract these risks. Current research focuses on how parents and teachers perceive children’s experience of living with and taking ADHD medication. This study included children as participants, enabling their agency. Obje…
I Had To Be Brave”
Sexual abuse is a global problem with profound consequences for the well-being of children. It often results in mental health disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety. It can lead to social withdrawal, substance use and abuse, aggression and suicide. Despite the adversities faced by children who have experienced sexual abuse, some are resilient and do not succumb to the subsequent consequences. Therefore, th…
Career Dysfunctional Thoughts, Work-Family Conflict, and Administrative Burnout in a Sample of Female Educational Administrators
Evidence has shown that female administrators often juggle domestic and administrative roles in both their families and workplaces. These roles can sometimes place demands on them that are beyond their control, leading to vulnerability to burnout and work-family conflict. In light of this, we sought to investigate the impact of cognitive behavior therapy on occupational dysfunctional thoughts, work-family conflict, and administrative burnout amon…
Resilience factors of orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Studies have shown evidence of resilience among orphans and vulnerable children living under different circumstances. This article explored the resilience factors that enabled orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned and implications for practice. A total of 18 children aged between 11 and 13 years from a children’s home in Soweto, South Africa, were purposefully selected for this st…
This environment will change you
Newly qualified teachers face several risk factors when entering the teaching profession as novice teachers. This study addressed the gap in knowledge by exploring the risk factors they face in special educational needs schools for learners with physical disabilities. Eight newly qualified teachers were selected purposefully as participants for this study. Qualitative techniques such as a focus group and semi‐structured interviews were used to co…
Children's Homes
Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) go through adverse experiences which may lead to them being placed in children's homes. Such experiences can threaten their resilience and rights. As such, children's homes should provide conducive environments to facilitate OVC's resilience and promote their rights. This study used a qualitative approach which was informed by a phenomenological design. Semi‐structured interviews were used to collect data by …
Risk factors and policy recommendations for parental divorce amongst adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa
During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals and their families faced various risk factors, which in some cases resulted in divorce. Adolescents in such families had to grapple with COVID-19 across the world, the risk factors faced by adolescents have largely been under-risk factors associated with COVID-19 and divorce. Despite the rise of divorce during studied, especially among adolescents in South Africa. This study aimed to explore the risk fact…
The Mediation role of Caregivers and Context on Individual Factors in Enabling Resilience Among Learners with Specific Learning Disability
Individual factors are critical in navigating adversity; however, the influence of social ecologies on resilience should not be undervalued. Factors such as a relationship with caregivers, and contextual factors (i.e. culture, spirituality, education), serve as resilience enablers. This article investigated the role of caregivers and context as mediators on the impact of individual factors on resilience among learners presenting with Specific Lea…
Growing resilience capacity for learners presenting with specific learning disability in learners with special education needs schools
The study contributes to the dearth of knowledge regarding the resilience of learners with SLD in LSEN schools
Risk factors of orphan and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Growing resilience capacity for learners presenting with specific learning disability in learners with special education needs schools
The journal is published for the purpose of advancing scholarship in disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in a uniquely African context. Widely read by scholars, professionals and students, it encourages scholarly exchange between all disciplines and academics from low, middle and high-income countries to work towards the improvement of human development and its practices across the continent
The resilience of learners with specific learning disability in unequally resourced learners with special education needs schools in diverse contexts
The study contributes to the limited body of knowledge on the resilience of learners with SLD in unequally resourced contexts and LSEN schools
Growing resilience capacity for learners presenting with specific learning disability in learners with special education needs schools
The journal is published for the purpose of advancing scholarship in disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in a uniquely African context. Widely read by scholars, professionals and students, it encourages scholarly exchange between all disciplines and academics from low, middle and high-income countries to work towards the improvement of human development and its practices across the continent
The resilience of learners with specific learning disability in unequally resourced learners with special education needs schools in diverse contexts
The study contributes to the limited body of knowledge on the resilience of learners with SLD in unequally resourced contexts and LSEN schools
The Mediation role of Caregivers and Context on Individual Factors in Enabling Resilience Among Learners with Specific Learning Disability
Individual factors are critical in navigating adversity; however, the influence of social ecologies on resilience should not be undervalued. Factors such as a relationship with caregivers, and contextual factors (i.e. culture, spirituality, education), serve as resilience enablers. This article investigated the role of caregivers and context as mediators on the impact of individual factors on resilience among learners presenting with Specific Lea…
Growing resilience capacity for learners presenting with specific learning disability in learners with special education needs schools
The study contributes to the dearth of knowledge regarding the resilience of learners with SLD in LSEN schools
Risk factors of orphan and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Risk factors and policy recommendations for parental divorce amongst adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa
During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals and their families faced various risk factors, which in some cases resulted in divorce. Adolescents in such families had to grapple with COVID-19 across the world, the risk factors faced by adolescents have largely been under-risk factors associated with COVID-19 and divorce. Despite the rise of divorce during studied, especially among adolescents in South Africa. This study aimed to explore the risk fact…
‘Navigating my way through trial and error’ … resilience of newly qualified teachers in special educational needs schools for learners with physical disabilities
Starting a career in teaching is accompanied by much excitement for many newly qualified teachers. Nonetheless, novice teachers working in special educational needs schools for learners with physical disabilities face several adversities. These include lack of competence, psychological distress and anxiety. However, there are protective factors that enable their resilience despite the adversities. This qualitative study investigated the resilienc…
Practise It Until You Master the Skill
Globally, many learners with severe intellectual disability face multiple adversities. These include poverty, abuse and lack of resources. Resilience factors need to be made accessible to enable learners to bounce back from these adversities. However, few studies were found on the resilience of learners with severe intellectual disability. The study sought to investigate factors that enable the resilience of learners with severe intellectual disa…
When I don’t drink my pills, I go crazy!’ Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication
Background: The global prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasing. Children with ADHD are exposed to various risk factors that adversely affect their quality of life. Treatment is paramount to counteract these risks. Current research focuses on how parents and teachers perceive children’s experience of living with and taking ADHD medication. This study included children as participants, enabling their agency. Obje…
I Had To Be Brave”
Sexual abuse is a global problem with profound consequences for the well-being of children. It often results in mental health disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety. It can lead to social withdrawal, substance use and abuse, aggression and suicide. Despite the adversities faced by children who have experienced sexual abuse, some are resilient and do not succumb to the subsequent consequences. Therefore, th…
Career Dysfunctional Thoughts, Work-Family Conflict, and Administrative Burnout in a Sample of Female Educational Administrators
Evidence has shown that female administrators often juggle domestic and administrative roles in both their families and workplaces. These roles can sometimes place demands on them that are beyond their control, leading to vulnerability to burnout and work-family conflict. In light of this, we sought to investigate the impact of cognitive behavior therapy on occupational dysfunctional thoughts, work-family conflict, and administrative burnout amon…
Resilience factors of orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Studies have shown evidence of resilience among orphans and vulnerable children living under different circumstances. This article explored the resilience factors that enabled orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned and implications for practice. A total of 18 children aged between 11 and 13 years from a children’s home in Soweto, South Africa, were purposefully selected for this st…
This environment will change you
Newly qualified teachers face several risk factors when entering the teaching profession as novice teachers. This study addressed the gap in knowledge by exploring the risk factors they face in special educational needs schools for learners with physical disabilities. Eight newly qualified teachers were selected purposefully as participants for this study. Qualitative techniques such as a focus group and semi‐structured interviews were used to co…
Children's Homes
Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) go through adverse experiences which may lead to them being placed in children's homes. Such experiences can threaten their resilience and rights. As such, children's homes should provide conducive environments to facilitate OVC's resilience and promote their rights. This study used a qualitative approach which was informed by a phenomenological design. Semi‐structured interviews were used to collect data by …
Psychology (12 works) · Psychological resilience (9 works) · Resilience and Mental Health (9 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)