Social Psychiatry in Zimbabwe or the Interplay of Culture and Psychosocial Disorders

M.A.J. Romme
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M.A.J. Romme: Social Psychiatry, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1987, vol. 33, issue 4, 263-269

Abstract: This article describes stresses that affect the social security of patients in a developing country like Zimbabwe and the influence of those stresses on the onset of psychosocial disorder. This is demonstrated in the form of case presentations. The impact on psycho-social disorders reflects a process in which the main factors are social status; stress/support; deprivation; reference.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408703300402

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