Spiritual Explanatory Models of Mental Illness in West Nile, Uganda

Integrating indigenous cultural knowledge into conceptualizing mental illness offers highly valuable insights to better contextualize mental health. The meaning given to symptoms determines what is abnormal and requiring treatment. In Uganda, the formal health care system is neither the only nor the...

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Authors: Verginer, Lucia (Author) ; Juen, Barbara H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2019
In: Journal of cross-cultural psychology
Year: 2019, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-253
Further subjects:B Mental Illness
B Uganda
B traditional and religious healing
B spiritual explanatory models
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