Carien Lubbe

University of Pretoria | UP · Department of Educational Psychology

In the past two decades, South Africa has made tremendous advancement in gay and lesbian rights. Despite this progress, many reports suggest that social attitudes have not kept up with legal progress, and gay and lesbian individuals in South Africa live in a society that is intolerant, oppressive, and even violent toward nonheterosexual citizens. T...

Through in-depth interviews with 21 parents and 12 children in lesbian/gayparented families, we explored the experiences of this unique family form in South African schools. Specifically, families reflected on their positive and negative experiences in the children’s education and used these reflections to offer advice to teachers and administrator...

Lesbian and gay individuals have few resources to which they can turn when seeking advice for disclosing their sexual orientation to their children. For practitioners, there is also a lack of empirical research that can guide their work with such clients. In this exploratory study, 20 adults who remember a parent coming out as lesbian or gay were i...

This paper explores the use of expressive sandwork as a form of psychological support for a youth with psychosocial vulnerability. A case study, which emanated from a community outreach project, is briefly described of a male black participant, from a low socioeconomic background, who is currently in correctional services care. The participant enga...

Several trends are compelling educational psychologists towards a philosophy of assessment that is asset-based and strength focused. This article shares the results from a study that explored perceptions about asset-based assessment in Educational Psychology in South Africa. Three focus groups were held and four main themes emerged from the transcr...

The purpose of this article is to explore the use, value, and applicability of animal-assisted therapy in psychology. The case study method was applied to a therapeutic case, using the interpretivist paradigm. Data were analyzed by means of document analysis. The findings are discussed according to five themes derived from the study, namely, “facil...

The interaction between teachers, classroom strategies and learners experiencing emotional and behavioural barriers to learning and development in a system of inclusive education results in multiple dynamics on different levels. Many teachers in mainstream education lack training to deal with learners experiencing emotional and behavioural barriers...

This qualitative case study explores the disclosure practices of a South African-born adolescent who is raised in a lesbian-parent family in the United States of America, in an attempt to understand how adolescents negotiate their unique family structure throughout their daily lives. The data in this study were analysed using thematic content analy...

We explore the use of video and photo elicitation in a research study undertaken to understand the way in which preschool teachers perceive and construct their provision of children's educational experiences. We explore the value of visually elicited interviews based on video footage and photographs captured during teaching and learning in four cla...

Department of educational Psychology, Faculty of education, university of Pretoria carien.lubbe@up.ac.za It is important to understand the thought patterns of students and supervisors that underlie the choice of paradigm and determine the progression of doctoral studies as an integral part of articulating scholarship at the doctoral level and subse...

An adolescent's subjective experiences of mindfulness were explored in a single case study of a 17-year-old female. Data were created by means of 'mindfulness sessions', unstructured interviews, creative expression, journals and field notes. The data were analysed and interpreted using a combination of typological and interpretive analysis strategi...

In the fairly short historical period since the adoption of a new constitution, there appears to be an increasing openness and visibility of same-gender relationships and families in South Africa. For example, gay and lesbian couples started to adopt children in openly gay relationships during the decade of the 1990s, previously married parents liv...

Advances and changes in globalised culture are responsible for a wide variety of ways in which families are formed and in which children grow up. Although members of the gay community have in the past been associated with a childless lifestyle, gay people are increasingly opting for motherhood and fatherhood by creating families of their own or by...

Dr Carien Lubbe is a lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria. Her main research interest focuses on same-gendered (lesbian/gay) families. Other research areas include the exploration of asset-based and positive psychological approaches in Educational Psychology. Carien has a sincere interest in qualitative...

It has become critically imperative that career counselling be made accessible to the majority of the South African population. At the same time it has to continue to address the needs and diversity of individual learners. This article attempts to illustrate the potential and flexibility of a post-modern model for career counselling. Career counsel...

Thesis (D. Phil.(Educational Psychology))-University of Pretoria, 2005. Includes bibliographical references.