AN INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS IN MULTI-PROBLEM POOR FAMILES LIVING IN CAPE TOWN | Zendy

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AN INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS IN MULTI-PROBLEM POOR FAMILES LIVING IN CAPE TOWN

Author(s) -

Jackie Hope,

Mariette Van der Merwe

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

social work/maatskaplike werk

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.303

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2312-7198

pISSN - 0037-8054

DOI - 10.15270/49-3-49

Subject(s) - cape , poverty , welfare , perspective (graphical) , cycle of poverty , social welfare , dependency (uml) , sociology , demographic economics , welfare economics , economics , computer science , geography , economic growth , political science , artificial intelligence , law , market economy , archaeology

At the time of the research the first author was employed as a social worker at a welfare organisation in the Cape Peninsula with a case load of over 300 clients. About 30 of these cases were multi-problem families who had been receiving social work services over at least three generations. The concern was that these multi-problem poor families seemed to be immobilised and found it difficult to break out of the cycle of poverty and welfare dependency

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