Narrative in Health Care: Healing Patients, Practitioners, Profession, and Community, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: Narrative in Health Care: Healing Patients, Practitioners, Profession, and Community
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781846191930
ISBN-10: 1846191939
Addition ISBN: 9781138444812, 9781315383095, 9781315328096, 9781498791175, 1315347083, 9781315347080
Author(s): John D Engel; Joseph Zarconi; Lura Pethtel; Sally Missimi, Publisher: CRC Press, Copyright: 2008
Narrative medicine has developed an identity already. Clinicians of many disciplines are being summoned to a practice that recognizes patients by receiving their accounts of self. Starting from different positions, the four authors have converged in a strong and shared commitment to narrative health care. They conceptualize narrative health care practices within frameworks derived from the social sciences and psychology, and, to a lesser degree, phenomenology and autobiographical theory. They relate the development of narrative medicine to relationship-centered care, patient-centered care, and complex responsive process of relating theory, positing that narrative medicine can help clinicians to develop the skills required to practice relationship-centered care. The book details – with exercises, resource texts, and abundant scholarly apparatus – how these skills can be developed and strengthened. This work will change health care. Because of its scholarly rigor, its multi-voiced sources, and its highly practical features (lists, activities, key ideas and key references, primary texts written by health care professionals and patients), this work will be a guide in the field for those who practice medicine or nursing or social work. The book establishes that there is a field to be practised, a need to practise it, and a means to develop the wherewithal to do so.