'I still believe ⋯' Reconstructing spirituality, culture and mental health across cultural divides

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 265-278

  Mayer, Claude Hélène ^a,b   Viviers, Rian ^a  

^a Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology AJH Van der Walt Building ^*  (South Africa)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FIELD WORK; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JEW; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SCIENTIST; SOUTH AFRICA; STORYTELLING; VALIDATION STUDY; ZIMBABWE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CULTURE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 84903272170     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2013.866076     Document Type: Article

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