Caring and Well-Being - A Lifeworld Approach

Zusatztext 84315843 Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Galvin is Professor of Nursing Practice in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, UK. Les Todres is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Health Philosophy at the School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, UK. Klappentext This book is concerned with how we can humanise health and social care, keeping the person at the centre of practice. Investigating what it means to be human in a health and social care context, it presents new perspectives about how professionals can enhance their capacity for humanly sensitive care. Zusammenfassung This book is concerned with how we can humanise health and social care, keeping the person at the centre of practice. Investigating what it means to be human in a health and social care context, it presents new perspectives about how professionals can enhance their capacity for humanly sensitive care. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Need for Humanised Care Part 1: Humanising Healthcare: A Lifeworld Approach 1. A Value Framework for the Humanisation of Care 2. A Lifeworld Approach: Revisiting a Humanising Philosophy that Provides an Experiential Context for Considering Health and Illness 3. Lifeworld-led Healthcare is More than Patient-led Care 4. Caring for a Partner with Alzheimer’s: an Illustration of Research-based Knowledge for Lifeworld-led Care Part 2: Well-being and Suffering: the Focus of Care 5. An Existential Theory of Well-being: ‘Dwelling-Mobility’ 6. Kinds of Well-being: Eighteen Directions for Caring 7. Kinds of Suffering: Caring for Vulnerability 8. An Illustration of Well-being as Dwelling-Mobility: Older Peoples’ Experiences of Living in Rural Areas Part 3: Developing the Capacity to Care 9. The Creativity of ‘Unspecialisation’: Contemplative Knowledge and Practical Wisdom 10. Complex Knowledge to Underpin Caring: Embodied Relational Understanding 11. Embodied Interpretation: One Way of Re-presenting Research Findings that may Serve to Sensitise the Empathic Imagination 12. Embodying Nursing Openheartedness: An Illustration of a Core Capacity for Caring 13. Conclusion: Caring for Well-being ...

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• Authors: Kathleen Galvin, Kathleen (University of Hull Galvin, Galvin Kathleen, Les Todres, Todres Les
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2014
• EAN: 9781138809246
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80924-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Philosophy, MEDICAL / Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills, MEDICAL / Caregiving, Psychotherapy, Health & personal development, Health psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Medical Sociology, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Nursing fundamentals and skills, Mental Health Law, Nursing fundamentals & skills