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Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/123735 Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town Mkabile, Siyabulela Swartz, Leslie Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Psychology. UCTD Intellectual disability -- Children Traditional healers Spiritual healers Children with mental disabilities -- Caregivers Children with mental disabilities -- Parents Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: n South Africa healthcare services are not limited to biomedical care. However, biomedical services for people with intellectual disability (PWID) are still sparse in South Africa. Lack of sufficient and efficient biomedical services for PWID has prompted service users to explore alternative non-biomedical approaches for both their mental and medical healthcare needs. These alternative non-biomedical approaches include, but are not limited to, traditional and spiritual healing methods. To achieve this, I used both Kleinman’s Explanatory Models of illness and Bronfenbrenner’s socioecological model as frameworks to guide the study for the individual interviews and focus group discussions with caregivers and parents of children with ID, traditional healers and spiritual healers who resided in an urban low socio-economic setting in Cape Town. Findings from this study suggest that although there is a universal understanding and conceptualisation of ID in the Western biomedical professional sector, there are differences in the understanding, conceptualisation and management of ID in both popular and folk sectors. In addition, caregivers, parents, traditional healers and spiritual healers almost all used similar terms to biomedical terms of ID. The majority of participants from both traditional and spiritual healing methods believed collaboration with the biomedical sector was possible and desirable, with only a minority who were not in favour. The lived experiences of carers of children with ID revealed the struggles, isolation and hardship experienced by families of children diagnosed with this condition. The physical, economic and social marginalisation of children and families with ID, given the context of poverty and lack of access to quality services in which they live, as well as the stigma and lack of understanding of what ID is, all compounded the difficult experience of raising a child with ID. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar Doctoral 2021-11-05T13:15:54Z 2021-12-22T14:18:30Z 2021-11-05T13:15:54Z 2021-12-22T14:18:30Z 2021-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123735 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 285 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Intellectual disability -- Children Traditional healers Spiritual healers Children with mental disabilities -- Caregivers Children with mental disabilities -- Parents Mkabile, Siyabulela Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town |
| title | Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town |
| title_full | Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town |
| title_fullStr | Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town |
| title_short | Explanatory models of child intellectual disability: Views of caregivers, spiritual healers and traditional healers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town |
| title_sort | explanatory models of child intellectual disability views of caregivers spiritual healers and traditional healers in khayelitsha cape town |
| topic | UCTD Intellectual disability -- Children Traditional healers Spiritual healers Children with mental disabilities -- Caregivers Children with mental disabilities -- Parents |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123735 |
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