Traditional African Mourning Practices Are Abridged in Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Implications for Mental Health

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dc.contributor.authorKilonzo, Gad P.
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-09T05:38:46Z
dc.date.available2020-07-09T05:38:46Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the psychological significance of traditional African mourning practices in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In Tanzania, untimely multiple losses through AIDS increasingly force communities to forgo traditionally prescribed mourning practices and rituals. An increase in psychiatric and psychological problems associated with incomplete mourning and unresolved grief has been observed in clinical settings. This may be due to the psychosocial inadequacy of these abridged mourning processes. It is unlikely that western forms of grief counseling can replace traditional mourning rituals, at least in terms of psychological efficacy. An approach is suggested that permits a wider elaboration of cultural psychic processes through the creation of new rituals.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKilonzo, G.P. and Hogan, N.M., 1999. Traditional African mourning practices are abridged in response to the AIDS epidemic: Implications for mental health. Transcultural Psychiatry, 36(3), pp.259-283.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1177/136346159903600303
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/469
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTranscultural Psychiatryen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectAIDS epidemicen_US
dc.subjectTraditional African Mourningen_US
dc.titleTraditional African Mourning Practices Are Abridged in Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Implications for Mental Healthen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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