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Submission Number: 143
Submission ID: 225
Submission UUID: b62fca6d-ccf5-4ad7-a118-e6fedf57dd37
Submission URI: /2023/abstracts
Created: Sat, 07/22/2023 - 22:47
Completed: Sat, 07/22/2023 - 23:43
Changed: Wed, 08/30/2023 - 02:57
Remote IP address: 197.189.172.202
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
| Title | Dr. |
|---|---|
| Lastname | Thabane |
| Firstname | Sophia |
| [email protected] | |
| Mobile | 26657333757 |
| Institution | National University of Lesotho |
| Biosketch | I am a Social Work Educator with competence in Family and Clinical Work. I have published in Social Work Field Education, Child Protection and integration of African indigenous knowledge systems into Social Work Practice. I previously practiced as a Social Worker in urban and remote areas of Lesotho. |
| Is there a Second Presenter? | No |
| Title of Presentatation | How to grow rice on a desert: The irony of imported social work pedagogy and praxis in Africa |
| Theme Selection | THEME 2: Building sustainable, resilient, and self-reliant communities through indigenous modalities, inter-sectoral collaborations, and partnerships |
| Subtheme TWO Selection | SUB 2.6 Multi-sectoral strategies for mental health and substance abuse prevention and intervention |
| Select your Presentation Type | Oral Presentation |
| Abstract | Literature showing that Africans use traditional African indigenous knowledge before approaching Western knowledge and medicine is abundant. Secondly, individualisation, a founding Social Work Principle, calls for social work interventions guided by clients’ beliefs and perspectives. Imported social work pedagogy and epistemology, however, are possible barriers for full integration of the complimentary knowledge systems in praxis while a complimentary African-Western model would seem most appropriate in Africa. This conceptual idea therefore proposes an integrated African-Western social work praxis for Mental Health Promotion and Treatment in Africa. The presentation will therefore demonstrate how African indigenous knowledge may be integrated into social work epistemology and praxis through: (i) partnering with African indigenalists in training, (ii) collaborating with African indigenalists in treatment of complex psychosociological conditions such as Anxiety Disorders, (iii) forging a multisectoral referral community-tertiary services network between social workers and African indigenalists. |
| Title | Dr |
| Firstname | Varoshini |
| Lastname | Nadesan |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |
| Title | Prof |
| Firstname | Annaline |
| Lastname | Keet |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |
