The treatment of mental illness in faith-based and traditional healing centres in Ghana: perspectives of service users and healers
Abstract 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 prob...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2054425120000217/type/journal_article |