Doing their best: strategies used by South African clinicians in working with psychiatric inpatients across a language barrier

Background and objectives: South Africa has 11 official languages, but most psychiatrists can speak only English and Afrikaans and there are no formal interpreter posts in the mental healthcare system. As a result clinicians communicate with patients who have limited English language proficiency (LE...

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Main Authors: Sanja Kilian, Leslie Swartz, Bonginkosi Chiliza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015-10-01
Series:Global Health Action
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Online Access:http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/view/28155/pdf_139