"What we see and what we hear:" Combining children's drawings with child and educator interviews to assess child well-being in Child Support Grant (CSG) beneficiaries in South Africa.
Child well-being is particularly relevant to South African social workers given the country's high rates of violence, poverty, inequality, unemployment, HIV/AIDS, and poor schooling outcomes. Guided by a social constructivist theoretical lens, and located within an interpretive qualitative research...
| Published in: | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Vol. 31; no. 7; pp. 848 - 867 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2021
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