A reflective essay on experiences and practices of postgraduate supervision in the University of Limpopo : a life history approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Kgomotlokoa Linda Thaba-Nkadimene ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Supervision Model ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Improved Learning

This study investigated the problem of postgraduate supervision that results with students' delayed graduation, low postgraduate students' output and lack of capacity. The purpose of this essay is to reflect on my postgraduate supervision experiences and practices of working in one disadvantaged rural university in South Africa. The study is embedded within interpretivism paradigm, and was informed by Personal Construct Theory and Life History Approach. My autobiography of the period January 2004 and June 2020 was used as primary data. The findings point to the prevalence of delayed graduation and output; adoption of single-handed supervision as an impediment towards attainment of required post-graduate students' skills required to progress in their studies and serve as future independent researchers; mono-supervision created supervision backlog that adds up to pipeline students. I used various models, such as student group supervision, mentoring supervision, and collaborative supervision. Collaborative supervision enhanced student development. This study concludes that supervision of postgraduate students is a crucial aspect for improved learning spaces and the choice of a solid supervision model improves research output. This study recommends that collaborative cohort supervision model be adopted by deprived universities to improve supervision capacity and students through-put.

Mourning and Reminiscence: Parallel Psychotherapeutic Processes for Elderly People

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Viney ◽  
Yvonne N. Benjamin ◽  
Carol Preston
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Processes ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Mourning and reminiscence are therapeutic processes common in therapeutic work with the elderly. However, a theoretical explanation of why they are effective has been lacking. Personal construct theory accounts for both in terms of the search of elderly persons for validation of their construct systems. In this article, this explanation of the parallel psychotherapeutic processes is explored, together with relevant information from the literature on mourning and reminiscence. Therapeutic case studies illustrate the characteristics of the two processes and the relationship between them.

Loss of Life and Loss of Bodily Integrity: Two Different Sources of Threat for People who are Ill

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Viney
Keyword(s):  
Healthy People ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Different Sources

Personal construct theory was used to generate some questions about the meanings that different types of threat–loss of life and loss of bodily integrity–hold for people who are severely ill. Content analyses of the responses of ill people and healthy people indicated that ill people expressed more concern with both types of threat than healthy people. Ill people who were suffering from acute rather than chronic illness, who were scheduled for surgery and who were hospitalized rather than being cared for at home expressed more concern about loss of life but not about loss of bodily integrity than other ill people. Each type of threatened loss was found to be associated with a different set of psychological states for people who were ill. Threat of loss of life was associated with indirectly expressed anger and uncertainty but also with the expression of many positive feelings. Threat of loss of bodily integrity was also associated with indirectly expressed anger, but with direct expression of it too, together with hopelessness and helplessness. Patients facing the first threat saw themselves as actively engaged in relationships with others, while those facing the second viewed themselves more often as passive participants. The value of this information about the meanings of threats of loss of life and loss of bodily integrity for the counseling of ill people dealing with these threats was illustrated by two case studies.

The Genesis of Schizophrenic Thought Disorder: A Serial Invalidation Hypothesis

1963 ◽  
Vol 109 (462) ◽  
pp. 680-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Bannister
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Construct Theory

The study to be reported was carried out within the framework of Personal Construct Theory as put forward by Kelly (1955). This theoretical background is summarized and discussed in Bruner (1956) and Bannister (1962).

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