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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Taylor & Francis Group
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Global Health Action |
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| Online Access: | http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/view/28155/pdf_139 |