Social competence in rural and urban children with mental retardation: Preliminary findings

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 176-181

  Pillay, A L ^a  

^a Midlands Hospital   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141815523     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/008124630303300306     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Ahmed, R., Seedat, M., Van Niekerk, A. & Bulbulia, S. (2001). Preliminary findings on community resilience from three peri-urban neighbourhoods in the Western Cape. Institute for Social & Health Sciences Monograph Series, 2(1), 27-49.
2. th edition). Washington, DC: Author
3. Angrosino, M. V. (1998). Mental disability in the United States. In R. Jenkins (Ed), Questions of competence (pp. 25-53). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Argall, J. & Ewing, D. (2001). The hunger hurts. Children FIRST, 5, 3-6.
5. Avis, J. & Harris, P. L. (2001). Belief-desire reasoning, among Baka children. In M. Gauvain & M. Cole (Eds), Readings on the development of children (pp. 136-142). New York: Worth.
6. Booth, T. & Booth, W. (1998). Risk, resilience and competence. In R. Jenkins (Ed.), Questions of competence (pp. 76-101). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.
8. Bronfenbrenner, U. & Crouter, A.C. (1983). The evolution of environmental models in development research. In P. H. Mussen (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology. Vol. 1 (pp. 357-414). New York: Wiley.
9. Children's Rights Centre (2001, March 30). Demographic profile. The Daily News, p. 11.
10. Crick, N.R. & Ladd, G.W. (2001). Children's perceptions of their peer experiences. In M. Gauvain & M. Cole (Eds), Readings on the development of children (pp. 181-195). New York: Worth.
11. Davidson, J. & Dickman, B. (1990). Issues in the assessment of people regarded as mentally handicapped. In S. Lea & D. Foster (Eds). Perspectives on mental handicap in South Africa. ( pp. 135 -157). Durban: Butterworths.
12. Doll, E. A. (1965). Vinland Social Maturity Scale. Minneapolis: American Guidance Service.
13. Donald, D. (1994). Children with special educational needs. In A. Dawes & D. Donald (Eds), Childhood and adversity (pp. 146-153). Cape Town: David Philip.
14. Egeland, B., Carlson, E. & Sroufe, L. (1993). Resilience as a process. Development and Psychopathology, 5, 517-528.
15. Jenkins, R. (1998). Culture, classification and (in)competence. In R. Jenkins (Ed.), Questions of competence (pp. 1-24). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. May, J. (2001). Meeting the challenge? The emerging agenda for poverty reduction in post-apartheid South Africa. In F. Wilson, N. Kanji & E. Braathen (Eds), Poverty reduction (pp. 302-326). London: Zed Books.
17. Murthy, R. S. (1998). Rural psychiatry in developing countries. Psychiatric Services, 49, 967-969.
18. Norusis, M.J. (1990). SPSS/PC + 4.0 Base Manual. Chicago: SPSS Inc.
19. Petti, T. A., Benswanger, E. G. & Fialkov, M. J. (1987). The rural child and child psychiatry. In J. D. Call, R. L. Cohen, S. I. Harrison, I. N. Berlin & L. A. Stone (Eds.), Basic handbook of child psychiatry (pp. 660-671). New York: Basic Books.
20. Pillay, A. L. & Sargent, C. (2000). Psycho-legal issues affecting rape survivors with mental retardation. South African Journal of Psychology, 30(2), 9-13.
21. Raven, J. C. (1962). Coloured progressive matrices. London: Lewis & Co.
22. Rogoff, B., Baker-Sennett, J., Lacasa, P. & Goldsmith, D. (1995). Development through participation in sociocultural activity. In J. J. Goodnow, P. J. Miller & F. Kessel (Eds), Cultural practices as contexts for development (pp. 45-65). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
23. Rutter, M. (1985). Resilience in the face of adversity. British Journal of Psychiatry, 147, 598-611.
24. Rutter, M. (1987). Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 57, 316-331.
25. Statistics South Africa (2000). Stats in brief. Pretoria: Author.
26. Statistics South Africa (2001). South Africa in transition. Pretoria: Author.
27. Stigler, J. W. & Stevenson, H. W. (2001). How Asian teachers polish each lesson to perfection. In M. Gauvain & M. Cole (Eds), Readings on the development of children (pp. 196-209). New York: Worth.
28. Tudge, J., Gray, J. T. & Hogan, D. M. (1997). Ecological perspectives in human development, In J. Tudge, M. J. Shanahan & J. Valsiner (Eds), Comparisons in human development (pp. 72-103), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
29. Tudge, J. & Futnam, S. E. (1997). The everyday experiences of North American preschoolers in two cultural communities. In J. Tudge, M. J. Shanahan & J. Valsiner (Eds), Comparisons in human development (pp. 252-281), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. UNICEF (1998), The state of the world's children. 1998. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
31. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press