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This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate
relationships with dying people. Accompanied by its trainer's
guide, it presents a comprehensive, sequential learning program for
caregivers in non-medical capacities covering everything from
self-understanding to spiritual issues, listening skills and
expressive activities, developing the skills, awareness and
resilience needed for this privileged and sensitive role. The
program includes a variety of learning experiences, including large
and small group activities, discussion, close reading, creative
writing, self exploration, and skill development and practice. This
is an invaluable resource for small groups of individuals who wish
to volunteer in hospice or palliative care settings. A copy of the
guide for trainers is included in each pack of workbooks, and is
also freely available online. 'The best resource I have seen to
guide teachers and learners in this complex training process. I
predict that those of you who try it with your staffs and trainees
will find that it bears fruit both for your patients and their
families, but also for the sustenance and personal development of
the staff members themselves.' Timothy Quill, M.D., in his Foreword
Current maternity policy advocates choice and control for women in
maternity care, and promotes women as active childbirth consumers
and decision-makers. However, evidence that women receive true
choice within contemporary maternity services is lacking, and
continued and pervasive barriers to choice continue to have
profound consequences for many. Choice, Control and Contemporary
Childbirth explores the narrative childbirth experiences of a group
of women, outlining current policy and providing an overview of the
relevant discourses to which women are exposed when making choices
for maternity care. This book is unique in presenting narratives
that reveal varying identities for women across their maternity
exerience, illustrating how maternity choices are simulataneously
promised and constrained. It provides practitioners, service
providers and policymakers in maternity care, and all those with an
interest in birth provision, with profound insights into both
women's experiences of childbirth and how choices can be better
facilitated in future. 'Maternal choice and control are a challenge
in contemporary society, with the changing demography of the
population, the rising birth rate and financial constraints.
Collecting this diverse information in one publication is timely
and an invaluable resource for the practising and academically
active midwives, obstetricians and health service managers.' - From
the Foreword by Tina Lavender
'Today, there exists a robust body of work connecting narrative
theory and practice with medical theory, practice, teaching, and
research. Taken together, what is particularly interesting about
these works is that they portray narrative healthcare as both a
philosophy of care and a set of skills - ' John D Engel, Lura L
Pethtel and Joseph Zarconi, in the Preface This inspiring
collection of narrative portraits details the career paths of
physicians and nurses who figure prominently in the realms of
narrative and relationship-centered healthcare. Each narrative
describes the healthcare practitioner's early decision process for
choosing their career and follows with a trajectory of events and
work situations that brought each person to their present position.
They offer a unique view from both a personal and a professional
perspective. The collection of narrative portraits provides
students, residents, and practicing health professionals a window
into the possibilities for constructing professional lives that are
oriented to service in ways that are fulfilling, energizing, and
creative. The editors have made an important contribution to
advancing the practice of narrative and relationship-centered
medicine. They invite you to listen for the truths of your own
story as you hear the voices of colleagues speak from the pages in
your hand. Reflecting on the ultimate concerns that move you will
enable you to more fully inhabit your own life story and become
more authentic and vital as you heal others. Mark L Savickas, in
the Foreword
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