The Ububele Baby Mat Service is a community-based, parent–infant mental health intervention offered at five primary health care clinics in Alexandra Township, in Johannesburg. The aim of the intervention is to promote healthy caregiver-infant attachments. There has been a steady increase in the number of mother-baby dyads making use of the service. This paper aims to explore how the Baby Mat Service and Baby Mat practitioners position and locate themselves in a culturally diverse community setting where multiple meaning systems are drawn on for making sense of health concerns. Two key components of the Baby Mat Service are discussed: i) the presence of an inter-racial therapeutic couple on the mat; and ii) the stance adopted by the Baby Mat practitioners in relation to culturally diverse understandings of a presenting problem. The therapeutic couple engages with culturally-informed frames of reference in an attitude of wondering and tentative thinking (“mhlawumbe” in isiZulu). When a respectfully curious stance was taken by practitioners, it was found to help those accessing the mat to find symbolic meaning in the presenting problem and integrate this with cultural understandings.

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Ububele婴儿垫服务–在不同文化背景下的主要预防性心理健康干预措施

Ububele婴儿垫服务是约翰内斯堡亚历山德拉镇的五个初级保健诊所提供的基于社区的父母-婴儿心理健康干预措施。干预的目的是促进健康的照顾者-婴儿依恋。利用该服务的母二倍体的数量稳步增长。本文旨在探讨“婴儿垫服务”和“婴儿垫”从业人员如何在一个多元文化的社区环境中定位和定位自己，在该社区中，为了理解健康问题，需要使用多种含义系统。讨论了婴儿垫服务的两个关键组成部分：i）垫子上存在种族间治疗对；ii）婴儿护垫从业者在有关呈现问题的文化多样性理解上所采取的立场。治疗夫妇以好奇和尝试性的态度（isiZulu中的“ mhlawumbe”）与具有文化根据的参考框架进行互动。当从业者采取一种尊重好奇的态度时，发现它可以帮助接触垫子的人在提出的问题中找到象征意义，并将其与文化理解相结合。