Full Description
This book argues persuasively and passionately that patient care is best when the patient's healing journey is as good as it can possibly be. That means the patient as a Whole Person - the self in all its physiological, emotional, social and even spiritual dimensions - should receive truly comprehensive patient-centered care.
In Whole Person Care: Transforming Healthcare, the author, an expert in whole person care theory and practice, outlines the background of whole person care, explains and illustrates the key ideas, puts the growing movement of whole person care in the context of other recent developments in healthcare, and explores the implications of whole person care for individual practitioners, healthcare teams, and the organization of healthcare at the institutional and systems level. In addition, the author provides a compelling, coherent narrative, rich with clinical examples and vignettes, that clarifies for physicians, medical students and healthcare administrators the meaning of whole person care and its implications for the future of medical practice. An invaluable resource for all clinicians and personnel concerned with managing patients with acute and chronic illness, Whole Person Care: Transforming Healthcare is a major addition to the literature and a must-read for health practitioners and health administrators at every level.
Contents
Whole Person Care: Vision.- A New Vision for Healthcare.- A Brief Recapitulation of Medical History in 6 Movements.- Healing.- The Focus of Medical Care.- Relationship in Clinical Practice.- Mindfulness in Medicine: Space, Slow, Flow.- The Process of Whole Person Care.- The Art of Medicine.- Death and Death Anxiety.- Whole Person Care: Implications.- 10. Whole Person Care for Medical Students.- 11. Identity Formation as a Physician.- 12. Wellness, Burnout and Compassion Fatigue.- 13. Narratives in Medicine.- 14. Digital Media and Medicine.- 15. Prevention and the Whole Person.- 16. Whole Person Evidence.- 17. The Organisation of Healthcare.- 18. Healing Healthcare.
