Author: Swartz, Leslie.
Title: Culture and Mental Health. A Southern African View.
Description: Oxford University Press. Cape Town 1998. Printed green wraps. 326pp 8vo. No inscriptions. a near-Fine unread copy. ISBN: 9780195709810 Local case studies and international research are used to explore the challenges facing mental health workers in a diverse and interconnected world. Explores cultural bias, language barriers, and economic disparities on mental health practices in Southern Africa. Topics of global concern such as anxiety, depression, somatization, and chronic mental illness are also analysed. Demonstrates that effective mental health workers think culturally in this rapidly changing world.

Keywords: psychology south southern africa african sociology mental health culture anthropology


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