Through short skills-focused trainings, simplifying complex treatments, peer supervision, and using models of illness which are consistent with the experiences of refugees, we can empower lay people in refugee communities to provide frontline psychosocial interventions.
Almost willfully nonquantitative, as Luhrmann notes, the field never bothered to prove its worth with outcome studies, never conceded that talk therapy might be wholly ineffective against the most severe disease and never owned up to the scandal of implicating family dynamics in models of illness that now seem firmly rooted in brain dysfunction.
Prognostic scores and models of illness severity are useful both clinically and for research.
Anthropologists study local cultural models of illness and can anticipate when public health intervention protocols may clash with local norms.
Our conceptual models of illness shape our consulting behaviour [ 1].
There are a number of different models of illness behaviour.
These "explanatory models of illness" are of special importance in mental health [ 11].
A low AKBR is associated with poor outcomes in both animal and human models of illness.
Explanatory models of illness influence health seeking behavior and health service utilization (33).
Kleinman's concept of explanatory models of illness [ 23] was used to guide the interviews.
Against this backdrop, using Kleinman's concept of explanatory models of illness [ 23] this study sought to explore the explanatory models of illness used by women diagnosed with PND, from low socio-economic backgrounds in South Africa.
