Narrative-Based Primary Care: A Practical Guide

by Launer; John

• ISBN13: 9781857755398
• ISBN10: 1857755391
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-06-30
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This book provides an important contribution to the new and growing field of `narrative-based medicine'. It specifically addresses the largest area of medical activity, primary care. It provides both a theoretical framework and practical skills for dealing with individual consultations, family work, clinical supervision and teamwork, and offers a comprehensive approach to the whole range of work in primary care. Using a wide range of clinical examples, it shows how professionals in primary care can help clarify patients' existing stories, and elucidate new stories. It can be used as a training resource and includes exercises and summaries of key points to consider. It is based on, and describes, an established evaluated training method, and is of immediate and significant practical use to readers. It is essential reading for general practitioners, practice nurses and others in the primary care team, psychologists, family therapists, counsellors and other professionals

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: narrative and primary care	p. 1
Practice
The narrative practitioner at work	p. 15
Concepts	p. 21
Techniques	p. 35
Helping narratives to flow	p. 49
Families	p. 65
Mental health	p. 83
What hinders narratives	p. 95
Clinical supervision	p. 103
Work consultancy	p. 115
Teaching
Background	p. 133
The training	p. 145
Some teaching exercises	p. 157
The effects of narrative-based training	p. 173
Theory
From a patient-centred approach to a story-centred one	p. 183
Balint and narrative: a comparison	p. 203
Towards a narrative-based model for primary care	p. 215
App.: the initial research	p. 227
Index	p. 243
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