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Implications of healing power and positioning for collaboration between formal mental health services and traditional/alternative medicine: the case of Ghana

Lily KpobiDepartment of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]

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Leslie SwartzDepartment of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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Article: 1445333 | Received 13 Nov 2017, Accepted 21 Feb 2018, Published online: 13 Mar 2018

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Lily Kpobi, Ursula M. Read, Roberta K Selormey & Erminia Colucci. (2023) ‘We are all working toward one goal. We want people to become well’: A visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between community mental health workers and healers in Ghana. Transcultural Psychiatry.
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Camillia Kong, Megan Campbell, Lily Kpobi, Leslie Swartz & Caesar Atuire. (2021) The hermeneutics of recovery: Facilitating dialogue between African and Western mental health frameworks. Transcultural Psychiatry 60:3, pages 428-442.
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Ivo Nchendia Azia, Shernaaz Carelse, Anam Nyembezi & Ferdinand C Mukumbang. (2022) Role of religious beliefs in adherence to antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Town metropole: a study protocol. BMJ Open 12:9, pages e062464.
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Sinethemba Shange & Eleanor Ross. (2022) “The Question Is Not How but Why Things Happen”: South African Traditional Healers’ Explanatory Model of Mental Illness, Its Diagnosis and Treatment. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 53:5, pages 503-521.
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Ivo Azia, Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Carelse Shernaaz & Anam Nyembezi. (2022) Role of religious beliefs on antiretroviral treatment adherence among Pentecostal Christians in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open 12:4, pages e052750.
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Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Charles Ssemugabo, Raymond Tweheyo, John Turyagaruka & George William Pariyo. (2020) Biomedical drugs and traditional treatment in care seeking pathways for adults with epilepsy in Masindi district, Western Uganda: a household survey. BMC Health Services Research 20:1.
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Alexandra Caulfield, Amelie Plymoth, Yvonne Ayerki Nartey & Helle Mölsted-Alvesson. (2020) The 6-star doctor? Physicians’ communication of poor prognosis to patients and their families in Cape Coast, Ghana. BMJ Global Health 5:6, pages e002334.
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Bethany Green & Erminia Colucci. (2020) Traditional healers’ and biomedical practitioners’ perceptions of collaborative mental healthcare in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Transcultural Psychiatry 57:1, pages 94-107.
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Jessica E. Lambert, Fred Nantogmah, Adam Yahaya Dokurugu, Hanan Alhassan, Sandow Stanislaus Azuure, Peter Badimak Yaro & Jeanette Kørner. (2020) The treatment of mental illness in faith-based and traditional healing centres in Ghana: perspectives of service users and healers. Global Mental Health 7.
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Eric Badu, Rebecca Mitchell & Anthony Paul O’Brien. (2019) Pathways to mental health treatment in Ghana: Challenging biomedical methods from herbal- and faith-healing perspectives. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 65:6, pages 527-538.
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Lily Kpobi & Leslie Swartz. (2019) Indigenous and faith healing in Ghana: A brief examination of the formalising process and collaborative efforts with the biomedical health system. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine 11:1.
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Eric Badu, Anthony Paul O’Brien & Rebecca Mitchell. (2018) An integrative review of potential enablers and barriers to accessing mental health services in Ghana. Health Research Policy and Systems 16:1.
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