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Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives in the UK, health
treatment centers were a top-down National Health Service (NHS)
innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions
to different local problems. This book is a highly readable account
of how and why these centers evolved with completely unforeseen
results, revealing clear practical lessons based on UK case-study
research involving over 200 interviews. By following the case
studies through each key stage of reform, the book tells the story
of NHS reform in action. Well-structured and clearly written, it
uncovers a range of difficulties and conflicts in pushing forward
wide-sweeping reforms at a local level, and it outlines the
practical lessons to be learned.
Hypnotherapy provides a powerful tool for utilizing the power of
the mind to reduce distress and suffering. This concise guide
provides readers with a rich source of ideas on starting
hypnotherapy practice, and thinking seriously about hypnosis as a
powerful adjunct to psychotherapy and medical interventions. With a
clear definition of what hypnosis really is, readers can develop an
understanding of the rationale for utilising hypnotherapy with
particular disorders.As the medical community is progressively
adopting a biopsychosocial model of healing, there is a serious
move toward validating the scientific credibility of hypnosis, and
hypnotherapy has become a well-established treatment. Unlike any
other introductory text, "Hypnotherapy Explained" adopts a uniquely
scientific approach among introductory texts; reviewing theories
and offering practical ways to integrate hypnotherapy in medical,
psychiatric and psychotherapeutic practice. It is enlightening
reading for general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists and
other healthcare professionals.
This work includes a foreword by lynne Maher. Head of Innovation
Practice, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, University
Of Warwick, Coventry. "Experience Based Design" (EBD) is a new way
of bringing about improvements in healthcare services by being
user-focussed. Facilities, healthcare professionals, carers, family
and friends are all involved in the patient experience and systems
and policies need to adapt to take this into consideration. By
exploring the underlying concepts, methods and practices of EBD,
this exciting guide offers a unique approach to healthcare customer
satisfaction. It offers recommendations for the future and many
interesting points for discussion. It will be of great interest to
health and social care management, particularly directors of
service improvement in hospitals and directors of nursing, health
and social care policy makers and shapers, and quality improvement
and organisational development specialists in healthcare. Patient
groups and national organisations, too will find the book
inspirational. 'Experience based design-you cannot do without it.
Read this book and it will change the way you think about providing
health services for ever.' - Lynne Maher.
Many healthcare improvement approaches originated in manufacturing,
where end users are framed as consumers. But in healthcare, greater
recognition of the complexity of relationships between patients,
staff, and services (beyond a provider-consumer exchange) is
generating new insights and approaches to healthcare improvement
informed directly by patient and staff experience. Co-production
sees patients as active contributors to their own health and
explores how interactions with staff and services can best be
supported. Co-design is a related but distinct creative process,
where patients and staff work in partnership to improve services or
develop interventions. Both approaches are promoted for their
technocratic benefits (better experiences, more effective and safer
services) and democratic rationales (enabling inclusivity and
equity), but the evidence base remains limited. This Element
explores the origins of co-production and co-design, the
development of approaches in healthcare, and associated challenges;
in reviewing the evidence, it highlights the implications for
practice and research. This title is also available as Open Access
on Cambridge Core.
This challenging and highly practical book draws on the findings
from an international study designed to help practitioners and
researchers understand the factors and processes that enable
healthcare organisations in the United States and Europe to achieve
- and sustain - high quality services for their users. The in-depth
case-studies from seven leading hospitals give an international,
evidence-based outlook that focuses on both the organisational and
cultural processes of quality improvement. Implication for research
and practice are considered, and a checklist of possible challenges
has been drawn up to help identify any 'gaps' in initiatives.
Healthcare policy makers and shapers including hospital chief
executives and NHS directors will find this book enlightening, as
will healthcare quality improvement and service development
researchers and professionals. Clinicians with an interest in
quality improvement will also find much of interest.
Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives in the UK, health
treatment centers were a top-down National Health Service (NHS)
innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions
to different local problems. This book is a highly readable account
of how and why these centers evolved with completely unforeseen
results, revealing clear practical lessons based on UK case-study
research involving over 200 interviews. By following the case
studies through each key stage of reform, the book tells the story
of NHS reform in action. Well-structured and clearly written, it
uncovers a range of difficulties and conflicts in pushing forward
wide-sweeping reforms at a local level, and it outlines the
practical lessons to be learned.
An up to date comprehensive overview of contemporary practice
within psychiatric rehabilitation services. It is a practical and
operational guide which takes the reader logically and
systematically from foundation to clinical practice to service
development. The second edition has been completely revised and
contains several new chapters.
At the heart of any therapeutic encounter there is always a story. Patients seeking help bring with them stories, spoken or untold, fragmentary and whole, that collectively make up their own personal narrative, their lived autobiography. Whatever else their tasks, a central part of the doctor's or therapist's job is to facilitate the telling of these stories, to make meaning out of them and find the patterns within them. The aim of this book is to rehabilitate stories and story telling within medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy and to consider a narrative approach both as a theoretical paradigm and a practical, therapeutic tool.
There is treachery afoot in Randast. An evil plot to harm the
Pantocrator, Alan the Just, is being hatched and Aaryn is summoned
from the High Islands to thwart those involved. Using his various
magical talents and powers, he must ferret out the conspirators and
bring them to justice. Before he reaches the City, however, he
finds himself rescuing a mysterious young woman, Jordana, and a
dubious thief named Zompre from a band of vengeful gypsies.
Together the trio entered the imperial city on the eve of the
Banquet of the Gathering and Aaryn enlists the help of Zompre to
gather the information he requires. But he soon learns the evil the
pursues is more dangerous than he imagined.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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