Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Social Work and Social Development Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030501389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 226 str.

Ndangwa Noyoo

Spis treści

Section One – Conceptual Underpinnings

This section serves as a basis for the conceptual foundation of the book. The conceptual and theoretical moorings of the book are advanced in this section to, among other issues, guide the discussions of the book. They also serve as anchors of the book’s points of departure. 

Chapter One –

• Introduction and overview
• Conceptual and theoretical premises of the book

Section Two – Interpersonal Relationships

This section highlights the people-to-people interactions from different race, cultural, class, and other backgrounds that continue to shape and mold the standing of the society’s overall human relationships. It seeks to show how the breakdown or erosion of healthy human relationships between the different cited persons or groups has resulted in social ills. The section also seeks to bring forth solutions to the former. 

Chapter Two - Race and promotion of healthy human relationships

Chapter Three - Gender and promotion of healthy human relationships

Chapter Four - Promoting healthy human relationships with sub-Saharan African immigrants

Chapter Five - Refugees and asylum seekers from sub-Saharan African countries and the promotion of healthy human relationships 

Section Three – Culture and Ethnic Background

This section closely examines the manner in which culture and ethnic background shape and contribute to the promotion or corrosion of healthy human relationships in contemporary South Africa. It also brings to the forefront solutions to deal with deficits in this area. The next four sections are also apply a similar manner of examination.

Chapter Six - Ethnic background

Chapter Seven - Values, mores, and traditions

Chapter Eight - Customs, attitudes, and patterns of socialisation

 

Section Four – Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities

Chapter Nine - Children, youth, and older persons

Chapter Ten - People with disabilities

Chapter Eleven - Families and human relationships

Chapter Twelve - Fostering healthy human relationships at the community level

 

Section Five – Practice and Training of Social Service Professionals

Chapter Thirteen - Social work education and promoting healthy human relationships

Chapter Fourteen - Social work practice and promoting healthy human relationships

 

Section Six – Policy and Legislation

Chapter Fifteen - The Constitution and healthy human relationships

Chapter Sixteen - Legislation and healthy human relationships

Chapter Seventeen - Public policy and healthy human relationships

Chapter Eighteen - Social policy, social protection, and healthy human relationships

 

Section Seven - Conclusion

Chapter Nineteen - Concluding chapter

O autorze

Ndangwa Noyoo, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. Previously, he worked for the University of Johannesburg as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and before that, for the South African Government, as a Senior Social Policy Specialist/Chief Director in the National Department of Social Development (DSD). Prior to this, Dr. Noyoo was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has published widely in the areas of social policy, social development and related fields, in the context of Africa and Southern Africa, in particular. Ndangwa Noyoo has also presented papers at various symposia in Africa and abroad. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Development Studies from Cambridge University and a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) from the University of Zambia (UNZA). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, from 2005 to 2006. 

Blurb

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, human relationships are under considerable threat. Despite the 1994 commitment to an inclusive and human-rights-based democracy, human relationships remain strained. Bearing in mind South Africa's tortuous and divisive past, this book brings to light many issues, prospects and challenges with regard to the promotion of healthy human relationships after apartheid ended. 

Social work and social development perspectives are central to the issues that are raised in this volume. The profession of social work has always championed the centrality of human relationships, being less interested in the internal functioning of people and more interested in their interpersonal functioning within broader structures and forces, including social justice, building people's strengths and capabilities, anti-discrimination, diversity and empowerment.

This edited book is based on select papers presented at a social work conference in 2019 that was co-hosted by the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town and the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions. In the chapters, the contributors offer some solutions to the ubiquitous societal ills that emanate from either corrosive or broken human relationships:

• Resurgent racism in post-apartheid South Africa and the need to promote healthy human relationships
• Promoting healthy human relationships with sub-Saharan African immigrants and South Africans
• Promoting family and human relationships in a traumatised society
• Social policy, social welfare, social security and legislation in promoting healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa
• Social protection as a tool to promote healthy human relationships in South Africa

Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa is an essential resource for an international audience of scholars, policy-makers, and social work and social development practitioners, legislators and students.