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
attached to primary care. GP trainers tutors and course organisers
will find it a valuable educational tool. Professionals elsewhere
in primary care such as pharmacists dentists and optometrists and
academics in medical sociology and medical anthropology will also
find it very useful.
General
Imprint: |
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2002 |
First published: |
2005 |
Authors: |
Derek Steinberg
|
Dimensions: |
244 x 173 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
192 |
Edition: |
1st New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-85775-854-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
Health systems & services >
General
|
LSN: |
1-85775-854-4 |
Barcode: |
9781857758542 |
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