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"A More Equitable Society": The Politics of Global Fairness in Paralympic Sport

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"By working together and caring for one another we can win this fight": A qualitative exploration of a traditional healer's perspectives of care of people with epilepsy in a South African urban township in Cape Town.

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

"I just answer 'yes' to everything they say": access to health care for deaf people in Worcester, South Africa and the politics of exclusion

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"I understand just a little…" Perspectives of HIV/AIDS service providers in South Africa of providing mental health care for people living with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published on 24 January 2012

"I was like intoxicated with this positivity": the politics of hope amongst participants in a trial of a novel spinal cord injury rehabilitation technology in South Africa

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

"I wonder if I did not mess up….": Shame and resistance among women with epilepsy in Cape Town, South Africa

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"It is always HIV/AIDS and TB": Home-based carers' perspectives on epilepsy in Cape Town, South Africa.

scientific article published on June 2016

"Our lifestyle is a mix-match": Traditional healers talk about suicide and suicide prevention in South Africa

scientific article published in January 2017

"The others look at you as if you are a grave": a qualitative study of subjective experiences of patients with epilepsy regarding their treatment and care in Cape Town, South Africa.

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"There is not a safe space where they can find themselves to be free": (Un)safe spaces and the promotion of queer visibilities among township males who have sex with males (MSM) in Cape Town, South Africa.

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

"There is nothing wrong with me": disability invisibility in a rural South African town.

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

"There is soccer but we have to watch": the embodied consequences of rhetorics of inclusion for South African children with cerebral palsy

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

"They don't understand that we also exist": South African participants in competitive disability sport and the politics of identity.

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"This one will delay us": barriers to accessing health care services among persons with disabilities in Malawi.

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"What Can We Learn From First-Person Narratives?" The Case of Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior

scientific article published on 02 March 2019

'A thing full of stories': Traditional healers' explanations of epilepsy and perspectives on collaboration with biomedical health care in Cape Town

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'I Waited for It until Forever': Community Barriers to Accessing Intellectual Disability Services for Children and Their Families in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

'It's better if someone can see me for who I am': Stories of (In)visibility for Students with a visual impairment within South African Universities

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

'That is how the real mad people behave': Beliefs about and treatment of mental disorders by traditional medicine-men in Accra, Ghana

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

'The threads in his mind have torn': conceptualization and treatment of mental disorders by neo-prophetic Christian healers in Accra, Ghana

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

'Whom will I give him to? The difficulty is mine' : Psychosocial difficulties experienced by care givers of patients with epilepsy in Cape Town, South Africa.

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'You have a swelling': The language of cancer diagnosis and implications for cancer management in Kenya.

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

'You must carry your wheelchair'--barriers to accessing healthcare in a South African rural area

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(Re)presenting the self: Questions raised by a photovoice project with people with physical disabilities in South Africa

scientific article published in 2019

A description of assistive technology sources, services and outcomes of use in a number of African settings.

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A household perspective on access to health care in the context of HIV and disability: a qualitative case study from Malawi.

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A lay carer's story about epilepsy in an urban South African context: they call it an illness of falling or an illness of fitting because a person shakes and eventually falls

scientific article published on 6 July 2013

Academic and Scientific Authorship Practices: A Survey Among South African Researchers

scientific article published on 09 August 2018

Access to health care for persons with disabilities in rural South Africa.

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Ad hoc interpreters in South African psychiatric services: service provider perspectives

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Addressing Intersections in HIV/AIDS and Mental Health: The Role of Organizations for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals in South Africa

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Adherence to treatment in poorer countries: a new research direction?

scientific article published in April 2007

An African way of networking around disability

An evaluation of a brief motivational interviewing training course for HIV/AIDS counsellors in Western Cape Province, South Africa

scientific article published on February 2009

An unruly coming of age: The benefits of discomfort for global mental health ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Anorexia nervosa as a culture-bound syndrome

scientific article published in January 1985

Association between exposure to traumatic events and anxiety disorders in a post-conflict setting: a cross-sectional community study in South Sudan

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Attitudes toward condom education amongst educators for Deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescents in South Africa

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

Barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity: The experiences of a group of South African adolescents with cerebral palsy

scientific article published on 6 March 2014

Barriers to the participation of people with psychosocial disability in mental health policy development in South Africa: a qualitative study of perspectives of policy makers, professionals, religious leaders and academics

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Bringing the social into pedagogy: unsafe learning in an uncertain world

Broadening psychology's contribution to addressing issues of HIV/AIDS, poverty and nutrition: structural issues as constraints and opportunities

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Building Disability Research Capacity in Low-Income Contexts: Possibilities and Challenges

article published in 2009

COVID-19, disability and the context of healthcare triage in South Africa: Notes in a time of pandemic ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Care and the luxury of trauma: A South African story

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Caregivers' and parents' explanatory models of intellectual disability in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Caveats and pitfalls associated with researching community engagement in the context of HIV vaccine trials.

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Challenges in the use of the mental health information system in a resource-limited setting: Lessons from Ghana

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Challenges to providing HIV prevention education to youth with disabilities in South Africa

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Chronic pain as a human rights issue: setting an agenda for preventative action.

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Clinical psychology in general hospital settings: Issues in interprofessional relationships

Community participation in AIDS vaccine trials: empowerment or science?

scientific article published on 16 May 2006

Community, self and identity: participatory action research and the creation of a virtual community across two South African universities

scholarly article by Poul Rohleder et al published April 2008 in Teaching in Higher Education

Competence of Interpreters in a South African Psychiatric Hospital in Translating Key Psychiatric Terms

scholarly article by Sanja Kilian et al published 1 March 2010 in Psychiatric Services

Competence of interpreters in a South African psychiatric hospital in translating key psychiatric terms.

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Complexities in the process of translating research documents in cross-cultural settings

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Conceptualising the psycho‐emotional aspects of disability and impairment: the distortion of personal and psychic boundaries

article published in 2008

Core Concepts of Human Rights and Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups in the Disability and Rehabilitation Policies of Malawi, Namibia, Sudan, and South Africa

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Counter-narratives in context: The role of the organisation and broader culture in psychic splitting among South African survivors of intimate partner violence

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Crystalluria in marathon runners

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Culture and Mental Health in the Rainbow Nation: Transcultural Psychiatry in a Changing South Africa

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Cyborg anxiety: Oscar Pistorius and the boundaries of what it means to be human

Dating persons with physical disabilities: the perceptions of South Africans without disabilities.

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Decolonising research methodologies: lessons from a qualitative research project, Cape Town, South Africa

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Developing Programmes to Promote Participation in Sport among Adolescents with Disabilities: Perceptions Expressed by a Group of South African Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy

scholarly article by Jason Bantjes et al published 4 May 2015 in International Journal of Disability Development and Education

Disability and HIV/AIDS: A Key Development Issue

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Disabled persons' knowledge of HIV prevention and access to health care prevention services in South Africa

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

Disablism, Identity and Self: Discrimination as a Traumatic Assault on Subjectivity

Does message framing predict willingness to participate in a hypothetical HIV vaccine trial: an application of Prospect Theory

scientific article published on 7 December 2012

Doing their best: strategies used by South African clinicians in working with psychiatric inpatients across a language barrier

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Ethical and social dilemmas in community-based controlled trials in situations of poverty: a view from a South African project

scientific article published in July 2002

Ethics, human rights and HIV vaccine trials in low-income settings

scientific article published on 6 December 2011

Experience of mental disorder in the context of basic service reforms: the impact on caregiving environments in South Africa

scientific article published in October 2007

Experiences of visually impaired students in higher education: Bodily perspectives on inclusive education

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Exploring the interaction of activity limitations with context, systems, community and personal factors in accessing public health care services: A presentation of South African case studies

scientific article published on 08 February 2017

Factors related to environmental barriers experienced by persons with and without disabilities in diverse African settings.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Family therapy for schizophrenia: cultural challenges and implementation barriers in the South African context

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Finding Common Ground in the Context of Difference: A South African Case Study

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

From Sharpeville to Marikana: The Changing Political Landscape for Mental Health Practice in a Violent South Africa

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From the Local to the Global: the Many Contexts of Disability and International Development

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Gender differences in HIV knowledge and unsafe sexual behaviours among disabled people in South Africa

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Generating evidence to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: Rationale, overview and methods of AFFIRM

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Genetic research, behavioural science, and child and adolescent mental health in South Africa: an important new agenda

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Ghanaian traditional and faith healers' explanatory models for epilepsy.

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Ghanaian traditional and faith healers' explanatory models of intellectual disability

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Globalization and Mental Health: Changing Views of Culture and Society

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HIV issues and people with disabilities: a review and agenda for research

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HIV/AIDS and Persons with Disabilities

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HIV/AIDS and disability in Southern Africa: a review of relevant literature.

scientific article published on January 2009

HIV/AIDS and disability organisations in South Africa

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HIV/AIDS, Nutrition and Structural Interventions in South Africa: A Move in the Right Direction

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Health service utilization by patients with common mental disorder identified by the Self-Reporting Questionnaire in a primary care setting in Zomba, Malawi: a descriptive study

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Hearing their voices: The lived experience of recovery from first-episode psychosis in schizophrenia in South Africa.

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Hidden dimensions of power and resistance in the translation process: a south African study

scientific article published on September 1991

Human rights and mental health in post-apartheid South Africa: lessons from health care professionals working with suicidal inmates in the prison system

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Illness negotiation: The case of eating disorders

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Images of culture and mental illness : South African psychiatric approaches

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Imbalances in the knowledge about infancy: The divide between rich and poor countries

Imbalances in the knowledge about infant mental health in rich and poor countries: too little progress in bridging the gap

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Impact of a mother-infant intervention in an indigent peri-urban South African context: pilot study

scientific article published on January 2002

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

scientific article published in January 2018

Improving quality of mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in socioeconomically deprived community in South Africa: randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Inclusion and human rights in health policies: comparative and benchmarking analysis of 51 policies from Malawi, Sudan, South Africa and Namibia

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Indigenous and faith healing for mental health in Ghana: An examination of the literature on reported beliefs, practices and use of alternative mental health care in Ghana

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Indigenous and faith healing in Ghana: A brief examination of the formalising process and collaborative efforts with the biomedical health system

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Infographic. Sleep disorders in athletes

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Infographic: Mental health in elite athletes. An IOC consensus statement

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Inhibitors and facilitators of willingness to participate (WTP) in an HIV vaccine trial: construction and initial validation of the Inhibitors and Facilitators of Willingness to Participate Scale (WPS) among women at risk for HIV infection

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Insiders and outsiders: Levels of collaboration in research partnerships across resource divides

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Intellectual disability rights and inclusive citizenship in South Africa: What can a scoping review tell us?

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International collaboration in infant mental health: Pitfalls, challenge, and a way forward

scientific article published in November 2006

Intimacy, intercourse and adjustments: Experiences of sexual life of a group of people with physical disabilities in South Africa.

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Introduction and Overview

Is participation in HIV vaccine trials a health promoting behaviour?

scientific article published in November 2007

Is thin a feminist issue?

Language, culture, and task shifting--an emerging challenge for global mental health

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Life events in Xhosas in Cape Town.

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Life in Special Schools in South Africa: Voices of Former Students

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Living in two narratives: psychic splitting in South African survivors of chronic trauma

scholarly article by Amelia van der Merwe & Leslie Swartz published 10 March 2015 in South African Journal of Psychology

Lost opportunities to improve health literacy: observations in a chronic illness clinic providing care for patients with epilepsy in Cape Town South Africa

scientific article published on 30 November 2012

Manifestations of affective disturbance in sub-Saharan Africa: key themes

scientific article published on 27 November 2006

Mediating words, mediating worlds: interpreting as hidden care work in a South African psychiatric institution

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Mental health care user participation in mental health policy development and implementation in South Africa

scientific article published in January 2010

Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019)

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders in South Africa

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Mental health promotion initiatives for children and youth in contexts of poverty: the case of South Africa

scientific article published on 22 April 2010

Mental health research priorities in low- and middle-income countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

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Mental health symptoms and disorders in Paralympic athletes: a narrative review

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Mobile phone technology for improved mental health care in South Africa: possibilities and challenges

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Muslim Traditional Healers in Accra, Ghana: Beliefs About and Treatment of Mental Disorders

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

No reductions and some improvements in South African lay HIV/AIDS counsellors' motivational interviewing competence one year after brief training

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On the edge: ward-rounds in a South African psychiatric emergency department

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

On the ethics of being photographed in research in rural South Africa: views of people with disabilities

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Organising for self-advocacy in mental health: experiences from seven African countries

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Oscar Pistorius and the melancholy of intersectionality

Parents' anxieties about the risk of HIV/AIDS for their Deaf and hard of hearing adolescents in South Africa: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 5 October 2011

Perceived Barriers for Accessing Health Services among Individuals with Disability in Four African Countries

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Perceived barriers to accessing health services among people with disabilities in rural northern Namibia

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Perceived current needs, psychological distress and functional impairment in a war-affected setting: a cross-sectional study in South Sudan

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Perceptions of educators of Deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescents of HIV-risk factors for these youths

scientific article published in December 2012

Point of care in your pocket: a research agenda for the field of m-health

scientific article published in May 2012

Political Oppression, Social Change and the Family: A View from South Africa

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Political repression and children in South Africa: the social construction of damaging effects.

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Post-partum depression and infant growth in a South African peri-urban settlement.

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Poverty and common mental disorders in low and middle income countries: A systematic review.

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Predicting hypothetical willingness to participate (WTP) in a future phase III HIV vaccine trial among high-risk adolescents

scientific article published on August 2007

Predictors of negative beliefs toward the sexual rights and perceived sexual healthcare needs of people with physical disabilities in South Africa

scientific article published on 11 May 2019

Prevalence and correlates of mental and neurodevelopmental symptoms and disorders among deaf children and adolescents: a systematic review protocol

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Primary health care in the era of HIV/AIDS. some implications for health systems reform

scientific article published in September 2002

Producing boundary-breaking texts on disability issues: the personal politics of collaboration

Promotion of mental health in poorly resourced countries

scientific article published in October 2007

Providing sex education to persons with learning disabilities in the era of HIV/AIDS: tensions between discourses of human rights and restriction

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Psychosocial challenges affecting the quality of life in adults with epilepsy and their carers in Africa: A review of published evidence between 1994 and 2014

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Psychotic-like experiences in a conflict-affected population: a cross-sectional study in South Sudan

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Putting the ‘heart’ back into community psychology: some South African examples

scholarly article by Kerry Gibson & Leslie Swartz published February 2008 in Psychodynamic Practice

Race trouble: experiences of Black medical specialist trainees in South Africa

scientific article published on 03 December 2016

Race, gender and the impossibilities of care ⬇️

scientific article published on November 21, 2011

Reflections on Including Disability in Social Protection Programmes

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Removing the Splinters from Our Own Eyes: A Commentary on Identities and Power in South African Community Psychology

scholarly article by Ronelle Carolissen & Leslie Swartz published 23 July 2009 in Feminism & Psychology

Reports of the experience of epilepsy in a rural South African village

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Representing disability and development in the global south

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Research Agenda to Facilitate Community Participation In HIV Vaccine Research: A Participatory Approach

scientific article published in January 2013

Research priorities for health of people with disabilities: an expert opinion exercise

scientific article published in The Lancet

Rural South Africans' rehabilitation experiences: Case studies from the Northern Cape Province

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

Scaling up mHealth: where is the evidence?

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Scarcity and inequity of mental health research resources in low-and-middle income countries: a global survey

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

Setting priorities for global mental health research

scientific article published on June 2009

Sexuality, disability and human rights: strengthening healthcare for disabled people

scientific article published on 31 July 2012

Social Inclusion Through Para sport

scientific article published on 09 February 2018

Social and behavioral aspects of child and adolescent participation in HIV vaccine trials

scientific article published in December 2005

Socio-cultural contexts of end- of- life conversations and decisions: bereaved family cancer caregivers' retrospective co-constructions.

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

South African International Migration and its Impact on Older Family Members

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

South African mental health care service user views on priorities for supporting recovery: implications for policy and service development

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Spiritual Healers’ Explanatory Models of Intellectual Disability in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 15 September 2021

Structural barriers to ART adherence in Southern Africa: Challenges and potential ways forward

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Students’ evaluations of the use of e-learning in a collaborative project between two South African universities

scholarly article by Poul Rohleder et al published 20 August 2007 in Higher Education

THE PERSONAL POLITICS OF DISASTER: NARRATIVES OF SURVIVORS OF A SOUTH AFRICAN SHANTY TOWN FIRE

scholarly article by Jackie Stewart et al published 18 April 2012 in Journal of Community Psychology

Talk about talk: Metacommentary and context in the analysis of psychotic discourse

scientific article published on 01 December 1987

The Effect of an Animal-Assisted Reading Program on the Reading Rate, Accuracy and Comprehension of Grade 3 Students: A Randomized Control Study

scientific article published on 30 May 2014

The Shaping of Sexuality in Children with Disabilities: A Q Methodological Study

The accuracy of interpreting key psychiatric terms by ad hoc interpreters at a South African psychiatric hospital.

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The compulsory treatment of alcoholic drunken drivers referred by the courts: a 7 to 9 years outcome study

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The cultural turn in critical suicidology: What can we claim and what do we know?

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

The effect of an animal-assisted reading programme on word recognition and spelling skills of grade 3 children

The impact of antenatal mental distress on functioning and capabilities: views of health care providers and service users in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

The invisibility of informal interpreting in mental health care in South Africa: notes towards a contextual understanding

scientific article published in December 2014

The paradoxical use of interpreting in psychiatry

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The perceived needs-access gap for health services among persons with disabilities in a rural area within South Africa

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

The politics of black patients' identity: ward-rounds on the 'black side' of a South African psychiatric hospital

scientific article published in June 1991

The potential consequences of informal interpreting practices for assessment of patients in a South African psychiatric hospital.

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

The sexual and reproductive rights and benefit derived from sexual and reproductive health services of people with physical disabilities in South Africa: beliefs of non-disabled people

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The sexual lives of people with disabilities within low- and middle-income countries: a scoping study of studies published in English

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The trouble with difference: Challenging and reproducing inequality in a biomedical HIV research community engagement process

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Theorising beyond the individual: Adherence to antiretroviral therapy in resource-constrained societies

article by Ashraf Kagee et al published 20 September 2013 in Journal of Health Psychology

Ties that bind, and double-bind: visual impairment, help, and the shaping of relationships.

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Towards a treatment model for family therapy for schizophrenia in an urban African setting: Results from a qualitative study.

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Traditional herbalists' methods of treating mental disorders in Ghana

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Troubling stereotypes: South African elite disability athletes and the paradox of (self-)representation

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Understanding health care workers' anxieties in a diversifying world

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Understanding the local context for the application of global mental health: a rural South African experience

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What facilitates the entry of persons with disabilities into South African companies?

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When roles within interpreter-mediated psychiatric consultations speak louder than words

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

When they call me cripple: a group of South African adolescents with cerebral palsy attending a special needs school talk about being disabled

scholarly article by Jason Bantjes et al published 5 February 2015 in Disability and Society

Where there is no evidence: implementing family interventions from recommendations in the NICE guideline 11 on challenging behaviour in a South African health service for adults with intellectual disability

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White clinical psychology trainees' views on racial equity within programme selection in South Africa

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Women's stories of living with breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

‘Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’: discomfort as a pedagogy for change

article by Brenda Leibowitz et al published March 2010 in Race, Ethnicity and Education

‘What I've noticed what they need is the stats’: Lay HIV counsellors’ reports of working in a task-orientated health care system

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‘Your Mind is the Battlefield’: South African Trainee Health Workers Engage with the Past

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“Communities isn't just about trees and shops”: students from two South African universities engage in dialogue about ‘community’ and ‘community work’

scholarly article by Poul Rohleder et al published 2008 in Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

“Community Psychology is for Poor, Black People”: Pedagogy and Teaching of Community Psychology in South Africa

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“My Stutter Has Put Me on the outside”: Young South African Muslim Men Who Stutter Talk about Masculinities and Religion

scientific article published on 13 February 2021

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