Mental Health Care In Africa

ebook A Practical, Evidence-based Approach

By Abel Pienaar

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An evidence-based practice and research book focusing equally on Western and African indigenous mental health care practices. Starts to exert the African epistemology and ways of practice, without undermining the contribution of Western health care. Aimed at mental health care practitioners and undergraduate students at universities and nursing colleges. Contents include the following:

  • Review of Western psychoeducation and findings in the African indigenous context
  • Planning and conducting therapeutic groups
  • Therapeutic interaction in HIV and AIDS care: an African approach
  • Management of aggressive and violent mental health care users
  • Sensory stimulation in mental health care users with dementia
  • Medicinal management
  • Substance rehabilitation and primary mental health care
  • Mental Health Care In Africa