TY - BOOK ID - 78139257 TI - The Yorùbá traditional healers of Nigeria PY - 2003 SN - 9781135942212 1280177322 9786610177325 0203515714 0203500296 9780203500293 9780203515716 9780415945806 0415945801 6610177325 0415945801 0429233736 9781135942175 9781135942229 9780415654814 1135942218 PB - New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Yoruba (African people) KW - Healers KW - Counseling KW - Curanderos KW - Faith healers KW - Mental healers KW - Psychic healers KW - Spiritual healers KW - Traditional healers KW - Healing KW - Mental healing KW - Spiritual healing KW - Counselling KW - Helping behavior KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Clinical sociology KW - Interviewing KW - Personal coaching KW - Social case work KW - Medicine. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139257 AB - This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woman from the Yoruba ethnic group. The results of the volume support the premise that culture plays a significant role in the kind of healing methods and counseling techniques used by professionals and traditional healers, as well as in the type of prof ER -