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      Indigenous, biomedicine and faith healing ambiguity in Tanzania: Bridging the trio gaps through pastoral counselling

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          Treatment of diseases was known in Africa long before the coming of modern scientific medicine. The Africans had their own traditional folk healers who treated both organic and functional diseases. Knowledge of plants, soils and water with special properties have enabled them to deal with infections, bacteria, and diseases. Different kinds of plants, large and small, terrestrial, and lacustrine, constitute about 75% of traditional medicine. Animal products make up about 20%, and minerals constitute the remaining 5% (Alves and Rosa 2005:77). However, with the coming of missionaries some developments took place. Western medicine was introduced in dispensaries and hospitals with a natural explanation for all sickness and healing. Missionaries treated indigenous healing as superstition, and unworthy of belief by promoting biomedicine and faith healing through prayers. Hence, there is a need of bridging the trio gaps through pastoral counselling in order to make sustained efforts to foster collaboration among them.

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          Traditional and religious healers in the pathway to care for people with mental disorders in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

          In resource-limited contexts in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a considerable proportion of individuals seeking care for mental disorders consult traditional and religious healers in their pathway to mental health care. Reports from Africa suggest that early involvement of healers may result in delays in the care pathway; a potential barrier to early identification and intervention.
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            Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services.

            The majority of the black African population in South Africa utilize both traditional and public sector Western systems of healing for mental health care. There is a need to develop models of collaboration that promote a workable relationship between the two healing systems. The aim of this study was to explore perceptions of service users and providers of current interactions between the two systems of care and ways in which collaboration could be improved in the provision of community mental health services. Qualitative individual and focus group interviews were conducted with key health care providers and service users in one typical rural South African health sub-district. The majority of service users held traditional explanatory models of illness and used dual systems of care, with shifting between treatment modalities reportedly causing problems with treatment adherence. Traditional healers expressed a lack of appreciation from Western health care practitioners but were open to training in Western biomedical approaches and establishing a collaborative relationship in the interests of improving patient care. Western biomedically trained practitioners were less interested in such an arrangement. Interventions to acquaint traditional practitioners with Western approaches to the treatment of mental illness, orientation of Western practitioners towards a culture-centred approach to mental health care, as well as the establishment of fora to facilitate the negotiation of respectful collaborative relationships between the two systems of healing are required at district level to promote an equitable collaboration in the interests of improved patient care.
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              Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality: Implications for physical and mental health research.

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                Journal
                stj
                Stellenbosch Theological Journal
                STJ
                Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust in association with Christelike Lektuurfonds (CLF) (Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa )
                2413-9459
                2413-9467
                2022
                : 8
                : 2
                : 1-21
                Affiliations
                [01] Magamba orgnameSebastian Kolowa Memorial University Tanzania
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                S2413-94672022000200008 S2413-9467(22)00800200008
                10.17570/stj.2022.v8n2.a7
                d2322284-f250-4b36-9d80-b97b6c3a26ac

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                ambiguity,reconciliation,faith healing,Indigenous healing,biomedicine

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