TY - JOUR PY - 2009// TI - Mental health of the African girl child: challenges for nurses JO - Issues in mental health nursing A1 - Uys, Leana SP - 431 EP - 435 VL - 30 IS - 7 N2 - In this paper, the ecological systems theory of child development is used as the framework for exploring research on the development of African children, especially girl children. The special problems faced by children and the challenges this raises for nurses also are described in this paper.

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LA - en SN - 0161-2840 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01612840802435195 ID - ref1 ER -