TY - BOOK ID - 36689641 TI - Community-based healthcare : the search for mindful dialogues AU - Tasker, Diane AU - Higgs, Joy AU - Loftus, Stephen PY - 2017 SN - 9463009930 9463009957 9463009949 9789463009959 9789463009942 9789463009935 PB - Rotterdam, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Taipei, [Taiwan] : Sense Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Healthcare Disparities. KW - Education. KW - Education, general. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Education KW - Community health services. KW - Physician and patient. KW - Narrative medicine. KW - Clinical medicine KW - Physician and patient KW - Doctor and patient KW - Doctor-patient relationships KW - Patient and doctor KW - Patient and physician KW - Patient-doctor relationships KW - Patient-physician relationships KW - Patients and doctors KW - Patients and physicians KW - Physician-patient relationships KW - Physicians and patients KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Fear of doctors KW - Narrative medicine KW - Neighborhood health centers KW - Public health KW - Regional medical programs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36689641 AB - 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. ER -