IntroductionThe South African Higher Education landscape, after the democratic elections of 1994, saw various strategies being employed to effect significant change in that sector, with the rationale that the restructured landscape would be:socially just and equitable in its distribution of resources and opportunities, … meet the requirements of longterm sustainability and … enhance the productivity of the system through effectively and efficiently meeting the teaching, skills development and research needs of the country (Macozoma 2002:1). This would lay the foundation for a higher education system that is consistent with the vision, values and principles of democracy and which would contribute to social and economic development. One mechanism of effecting such change was the merging of various higher education (HE) institutions. The first HE merger took effect in April 2002 between the M L Sultan Technikon and Technikon Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, to form the Durban Institute of Technology (DUT). These institutions each had established libraries, and the two library directors were jointly responsible for ensuring a single, unified and cohesive library system, operating across six sites of teaching delivery in Durban and Pietermartizburg. This paper serves to highlight some of the particular stresses brought about by merger, how these affect employees and the role that managers can play in helping employees through the change. Reflections on the experience of the Durban Institute of Technology library will also be made.
in this chapter, we describe the main features of the direct work with children in mentalization-based treatment for children (MBt-C), including some of the techniques that can be used in sessions with a child. As we hope we have made clear throughout this book, techniques in themselves are only a means to an end, not an end in themselves. their effectiveness depends on the quality of the therapeutic relationship that has been formed; the capacity to use the techniques in a lively and appropriate way, sensitivity to the "emotional temperature" in the room, and the child's level of functioning. in Chapter 4, we described the therapist's mentalizing stance and the role it plays as in all MBt work. this is the foundation on which the rest of the work can be built.in this chapter, we begin by discussing the central role of play in timelimited MBt-C, before going on to describe a variety of techniques the therapist may use to assist the overall aims of the therapeutic work. All of the
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