Community-Based Healthcare: The Search for Mindful Dialogues (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. Based on a PhD study of therapeutic relationships in community healthcare settings in NSW, Australia, and on real-life experiences of practitioners, clients and clients' families and care givers, this book paints a rich picture of the lived experiences of these participants in community-based healthcare. It examines the issues and challenges they face and the ways they deal with these. Key themes identified across the book are: the value and nature of relationships in this unique healthcare setting, the importance of time and using it well, the way good teamwork facilitates good community-based, patient-centred healthcare, balancing autonomy and equality with healthcare quality, practice wisdom embodied in healthcare, and ways of improving healthcare in clients' own homes -- Provided by the publisher Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Community-Based Healthcare....Pages 3-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Constructing Mindful Dialogues in Healthcare....Pages 11-24 Narrative as a Lens on Practice....Pages 25-32 Hearing their Voices....Pages 33-52 A Model for Mindful Dialogues In Community-Based Practice....Pages 53-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Being a Client....Pages 69-74 Families....Pages 75-80 When a Nurse Comes to Call....Pages 81-86 Care and Caring....Pages 87-92 A Doctor’s Tale....Pages 93-98 Therapy Tales....Pages 99-104 The Care Assessor’s Story....Pages 105-110 Life After Brain Injury....Pages 111-116 Mental Healthcare in our Community....Pages 117-122 Palliative Care....Pages 123-132 Case Management....Pages 133-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Considerations for Quality of Life....Pages 141-148 Collaborating in Community-Based Healthcare....Pages 149-156 A Future Path for Healthcare in the Community....Pages 157-166 Soul-Medicine....Pages 167-176 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Critical Companionship....Pages 177-186 Pursuing Practice Mindfulness and Wisdom....Pages 187-196 A Final Word....Pages 197-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-208