Beyond Words
Notes on the ‘Irrelevance’ of Language to Mental Health Services in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15086003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Swartz (0000-0003-1741-5897), Gerard Drennan (Child Guidance Clinic, University of Cape Town, South Africa) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-201 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transcultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/136346150003700202 |
| OpenAlex | W2010776204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 31 |
South Africa’s political history has led to a marginalizing of all languages except for English and Afrikaans. Many clinicians cannot speak the languages spoken by patients. We attempt to understand the slow progress towards achieving greater access to mental health services on the basis of language. The administrative constraints of an overburdened and bureaucratized health system lead to language and communication playing a relatively small part in clinical practice. Resistance to learning other languages may relate to the emotional risks involved in this learning. A psychological understanding of the barriers to linguistic change may help us develop further changes
Linguistics · Mental health · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Public relations · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Psychology · Stuttering Research and Treatment
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Psychotherapy in South African indigenous languages
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The paradoxical use of interpreting in psychiatry
The potential consequences of informal interpreting practices for assessment of patients in a South African psychiatric hospital
Caring for a Relative with Schizophrenia
Race trouble
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Integrating Services, Marginalizing Patients
Mediating words, mediating worlds
Intern Clinical Psychologists' Experiences of their Training and Internship Placements
Psychotherapy with a language interpreter
Becoming a Community Clinical Psychologist
Parents' anxieties about the risk of HIV/Aids for their Deaf and hard of hearing adolescents in South Africa
World Mental Health
The System of Professions
Emptying Beds
The Birth of the Clinic
Divided Sisterhood
Culture, Health and Illness
Ethnocultural and linguistic bias in mental health evaluation of Hispanics
Preventing recurrent homelessness among mentally ill men
The Reproduction of Racism in South African Mental Health Care
Deinstitutionalization, homelessness, and the myth of psychiatric abandonment
Role conflict among 'culture brokers
Psychoanalysis Observed
We can't all understand the whites' language
Images of culture and mental illness
Madness and Civilization
Psychiatry, Post-Apartheid Integration and the Neglected Role of Language in South African Institutional Contexts
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Culture and Mental Health in the Rainbow Nation
Getting rid of patients
The use of "trouble case" examples in teaching the impact of sociocultural and political factors in clinical communication
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |