Strengths-based Studies and Interventions
This programme explores strengths that Individuals, families, communities, and institutions can utilise to promote positive outcomes when understood and applied correctly. Strengths-based interventions do not try to ignore the challenges and difficulties; merely by enabling the capacity, skills, knowledge, connections and potential of people and communities rather than their limits, people are empowered to learn, develop and change. The importance of the environment and the multiple contexts that might influence people’s lives is also acknowledged and explored. A process of quality intervention development and evaluation is adopted, with the aim of contributing towards evidence-based practice.
Recent publications
2025Student perceptions on out-of-class experiences that impact student success in a South African context.
Versfeld, J., Mapaling, C., & Maape, S.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South2025Out-of-classroom learning: Revisiting value and impact.
Lee, K.C., & Mapaling. C.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South2025Effectiveness of well-being interventions among correctional officers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Owusu Ansah, K., Tsabedze, W. & Mapaling, C.
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology2025Validity of the Mental Health Continuum – Short Form among home-language Setswana speaking South Africans: Evidence for a four-factor model.
Opperman, I., Potgieter, J. C. & Smit, J.D.
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