Narrative-based Primary Care: A Practical Guide: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Launer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857755391 ISBN 13: 9781857755398

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

This book provides an important contribution to the new and growing field of ‘narrative-based medicine’. It specifically addresses the largest area of medical activity, primary care. It provides both a theoretical framework and practical skills for dealing with individual consultations, family work, clinical supervision and teamwork, and offers a comprehensive approach to the whole range of work in primary care. Using a wide range of clinical examples, it shows how professionals in primary care can help clarify patients’ existing stories, and elucidate new stories. It can be used as a training resource and includes exercises and summaries of key points to consider. It is based on, and describes, an established evaluated training method, and is of immediate and significant practical use to readers. It is essential reading for general practitioners, practice nurses and others in the primary care team, psychologists, family therapists, counsellors and other professionals attached to primary care. GP trainers, tutors and course organisers will find it a valuable educational tool. Professionals elsewhere in primary care such as pharmacists, dentists and optometrists, and academics in medical sociology and medical anthropology will also find it very useful.

About this title

About the Author:

John Launer is on the senior staff of the Tavistock Clinic in London, the leading training institute in the UK for psychological treatment and is the Associate Dean for postgraduate medical education at the University of London.

Review:

'I learnt a lot from this book, both about the philosophical basis of the narrative approach and about simple, practical techniques to use in the consulting room. This book will quickly find its place on the shelf of key textbooks on the core values and methods of primary health care' Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, in the Foreword

About this edition

• Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1857755391
• ISBN 13: 9781857755398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272