Christa B. Fouché is a New Zealand

social work Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social wo ...

academic. She is currently professor of social work at the

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

. Her work has covered people living with medical conditions such as

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and

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems wit ...

. Fouché's

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from the

Rand Afrikaans University The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) (Afrikaans: ''Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit'') was a prominent South African institution of higher education and research that served the greater Johannesburg area and surroundings from 1967 to 2004. It ha ...

looked at training social workers to serve with black South Africans with

Selected works

* Strydom, H., C. B. Fouche, and C. S. L. Delport. "Research at grass roots: for the social sciences and human service professions." Pretoria: VanSchaik Publishers (2002). * Fouché, C. B., and W. Schurink. "Qualitative research designs." Research at grass roots: For the social sciences and human service professions 3 (2005): 267–273.

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