The integrated practitioner turning tyrants into tools in health practice
It explores the relationship between practitioners and their tangible, external tools such as time, computers, money, information, colleagues, equipment, targets and office spaces, along with less tangible elements like knowledge, understanding, language, values and beliefs. These tools can be of gr...
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Oxford, UK
Radcliffe Publishing
2014
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| Series: | Intergrated practitioner series
book 3 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the series
- Why are these workbooks needed?
- Why did I write them?
- What will be in them?
- What perspectives and approaches will they use?
- Points and prizes: something for nothing-- Provisos
- Chapter 1: The perspective of 'other'
- Tools or tyrants?
- Chapter 2: Health knowledge
- A brief word of warning
- What do we know about health?
- Health as a relational entity
- Choosing what we see
- Testing our truths
- Knowledge and power
- Why is this important to health practice?
- Chapter 3: Health beliefs
- Health beliefs and explanatory models
- Using explanatory models skilfully
- Conflicts and dissonance
- Integrating cultures and beliefs into our practice
- Chapter 4: Information and guidelines 39 o The information explosion 40 o The effect of the information explosion in practice 41 o Guidelines 43 o Integrating information and guidelines into our practice 45 Chapter 5: Time and resources
- The problem of 'fairness'
- Practitioners, not priests 48 o The big (and small) issues
- Prioritising and choosing
- Mindful dedication
- Being fi rm about what we cannot do
- Acting effectively
- Chapter 6: Regulations and targets
- Targets 61
- Integrating regulations and targets into our practice
- Chapter 7: Organisations and teams
- Organisations as tools and tyrants
- Motivation
- The functions of health organisations
- Dysfunctional organisations
- Assessing our organisations
- How can we help our organisations work more effectively?
- Integrating organisations and teams
- Chapter 8: Space and the environment
- What does our space say?
- Changes in health practice space
- Therapeutic environments
- Making consulting space more therapeutic
- Making hospital environments more therapeutic
- Integrating our space into our practice
- Chapter 9: 'Effectiveness'
- How do we assess effectiveness?-- An empirical enquiry of effectiveness
- An interpretive enquiry of effectiveness
- Looking for 'evidence' of effectiveness
- Being wary of power claims dressed as knowledge claims
- Integrating and balancing approaches to health practice
- Conclusion: integrated harmonic balance with the other
- The 'other' as tyrants
- The crucial importance (and power) of 'me'
- Integrating the 'other' into our practice