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On 14 May 2013 By Adrian +haar pic
Deel 3: Kinders se optrede en hoe dit beïnvloed word
Egskeiding is in alle opsigte traumaties vir ouers en kinders. Hoe die egskeiding hanteer word deur die ouers, regslui, maatskaplike werkers, sielkundiges, kinderadvokate en die howe bepaal hoe kinders die egskeiding gaan verwerk. Indien daar nie volledige samewerking tussen die bogenoemde [...]
Continue Reading →	Fight colds and flu this winter
On 11 April 2013 By Adrian Liezl Heidtmann
To avoid getting colds or flu during the winter season can be a challenge. It’s well known that colds and flu are extremely contagious. New research suggests that cold viruses can float in the air for hours, allowing it to travel for meters on end, whilst infecting people. Thus avoiding your sick [...]
Continue Reading →	REEKS VIR GESKEIDE OUERS
On 11 April 2013 By Adrian Lig op ouer-vervreemding
Deel 2: drie kategorieë en die behandeling daarvan
Ouer Vervreemding (OV) word in drie kategorieë verdeel en is deur Dr Richard A Gardner, MD in 1970 raakgesien met die besluitneming in egskeidingshowe oor watter ouer voogdyskap moes ontvang. Gardner het ook bevind dat OV nie geslagsgeoriënteerd is nie.
Continue Reading →	BRANDPUNT
On 27 March 2013 By Adrian Is Pretorianers se aggressievlakke buitengewoon hoog?
Saamgestel deur Machelene Joubert
Melanie Prinsloo, ’n kliniese sielkundige met ’n privaatpraktyk in Pretoria Noord, antwoord: Dit is debatteerbaar of Pretorianers se aggressievlakke hoër is as mense van Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Kaapstad en elders. Dit is ook seker ’n saak van opinie of stadsjapies se aggressievlakke hoër is as [...]
Continue Reading →	Yolinda Thomas
On 27 March 2013 By Adrian Hoe kan kinders emosioneel mishandel word deur ‘n ouer? Die woord Emosie word beskryf in die Pharos Verklarende Woordeboek as “wat op dié gevoel ‘n beroep doen asook die innerlike lewe en denke”. Dus elke mens ervaar emosies soos: liefde, vreugde, vrees, hartseer en woede.
Wanneer twee ouers besluit om te skei, word die kinders [...]
Continue Reading →	PSA contributes to a life-changing mission
On 28 February 2013 By Adrian The Public Servants Association of South Africa (PSA), on 20 February, presented to the University of Pretoria’s Cochlear Implant Unit (UP-CIU) a laptop computer with dedicated software and supporting rehabilitation programs that will be mainly used in the training of audiology students in the management of cochlear implant users
PSA represents more than 225 000 public [...]
Continue Reading →	Leerderbloed red lewens
On 16 November 2012 By Adrian Met die 67 pinte bloed wat Hoërskool Montana se leerders en personeel op 30 Oktober geskenk het, het die skool altesaam 201 lewens geraak.
“Hierdie bloed word deur die bloedbank verwerk tot 201 dele – elke pint word verdeel in bloedplaatjies, plasma en rooibloedselle,”sê die skool se bemarker, Sunnette Greef.
Willem van der Merwe, woordvoerder [...]
Continue Reading →	Seminar ‘demystifies orphan disease’
On 16 November 2012 By Adrian Machelene Joubert
People with pulmonary hypertension (PH), in general, have to visit an average of three doctors before they are diagnosed correctly with this chronic and terminal disease, for which there is no cure at this stage.
This is what Denneys Niemandt, chairperson of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association of South Africa (PHASA) and himself a [...]
Continue Reading →	Cancer survivors celebrate in style
On 16 November 2012 By Adrian Pretoria breast cancer survivors, together with friends and family, celebrated life and hope at Reach for Recovery’s annual fund-raising event at the Atterbury Theatre in October.
Sultry cabaret artist Helena Hettema touched the heart strings of her audience with her emotion-packed songs and with a feast of pink bubbly, strawberries and chocolates; it was a [...]