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The treatment of mental illness in faith-based and traditional healing centres in Ghana: perspectives of service users and healers

BACKGROUND: The maltreatment of people with mental illness in Ghana's traditional and faith-based healing centres, including shackling, flogging, and forced fasting, has been documented by numerous sources. Such treatment is potentially traumatising and may exacerbate mental health problems. De...

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Autores principales: Lambert, Jessica E., Nantogmah, Fred, Dokurugu, Adam Yahaya, Alhassan, Hanan, Azuure, Sandow Stanislaus, Yaro, Peter Badimak, Kørner, Jeanette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7576926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33123375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2020.21