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Purpose : The study aimed to explore the practices of a sample of South African speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in providing psychosocial care to people with aphasia. People with aphasia are at risk of adverse psychosocial disruptions and access to appropriate support may be particularly challenging for individuals with compromised communication abilities. The study considered the multilingual and multicultural context of South Africa. By understanding current practices, direction for improved psychosocial care to clients as well as support to SLPs is highlighted. Method : A 20-item previously published online survey was completed by 56 South African SLPs. Purposive and snowball sampling were used to recruit participants. Descriptive and inferential statistics, and qualitative content analysis, were used. Result : Respondents recognised addressing psychosocial wellbeing to be very important. A variety of psychosocial approaches were used in practice. However, 67.9% of the sample felt ill-equipped to provide psychosocial care to people with aphasia. Further barriers included: time/caseload pressures (60.7%) and feeling out of their depth (48.2%). Enablers were: access to more training opportunities (89.3%), adequate time (62.5%), and ongoing support from skilled professionals (55.4%). The majority of respondents also perceived mental health professionals to have limited expertise in working with people with aphasia, making onward referral challenging. Conclusion : Respondents support people with aphasia’s psychosocial wellbeing by employing counselling strategies, including family, and person-centred goal-setting. However, many challenges to the provision of psychosocial care to people with aphasia were identified. To improve services, more training opportunities, improved role definition and interprofessional collaboration, are required.

Psychosocial care of people with aphasia: Practices of speech-language pathologists in South Africa