Community-Based Healthcare : The Search for Mindful Dialogues.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Practice, Education, Work and Society Series ; v.12 .
- Practice, Education, Work and Society Series .
Intro -- Community-Based Healthcare: The Search for Mindful Dialogues -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Series introduction: Practice, Education, Work and Society -- Preface -- Section 1: Setting the scene: Community-based healthcare -- 1. Community-based healthcare -- Section 2: A qualitative study into community-based therapeutic relationships -- 2. Constructing mindful dialogues in healthcare: A phenomenological study -- 3. Narrative as a lens on practice -- 4. Hearing their voices -- 5. A model for mindful dialogues in community-based practice -- Section 3: Community-based healthcare: Lived experiences -- 6. Being a client: It is about me -- 7. Families -- 8. When a nurse comes to call -- 9. Care and caring: Getting to know you -- 10. A doctor's tale: "You're my doc, doc" -- 11. Therapy tales: On their turf -- 12. The care assessor's story: In the field, from the field -- 13. Life after brain injury: Making a life that works -- 14. Mental healthcare in our community -- 15. Palliative care: Living and dying at home -- 16. Case management: Nothing about us without us -- Section 4: Ways forward -- 17. Considerations for quality of life: Always looking from the outside in -- 18. Collaborating in community-based healthcare: Mindsets for relational practice -- 19. A future path for healthcare in the community: Creating a mindful crucible of healing -- 20. Soul-medicine: An autoethnography -- 21. Critical companionship: Nurturing mindful dialogues in the midst of practice -- 22. Pursuing practice mindfulness and wisdom -- 23. A final word -- Contributors -- PRACTICE, EDUCATION, WORK AND SOCIETY.
This is a book for practitioners working in community-based healthcare as well as educators of future practitioners and researchers exploring this practice field and for people with chronic disabilities and their families and carers. The book invites readers to re-think and re-shape the way that community-based healthcare is practised by practitioners and experienced/engaged with by clients/patients and their families and other carers.