The Patient—Practitioner Relationship in Acupuncture / / by: Hammer, Leon I.

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822483103321
• Autore: Hammer Leon I
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stuttgart ; ; New York, : Thieme, c2009
• ISBN: 3-13-257931-9; 9786612785481; 3-13-149041-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Collana: Complementary medicine
• Disciplina: 615.8/92
• Soggetti: Acupuncture - Practice; Medical personnel and patient; Communication in medicine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-121) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Patient-Practitioner Relationship in Acupuncture; Title Page; Title page; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; Section I; 1 Basic Conditions or Tenets- An Overview; Respect; Boundaries; Readiness for Change; Expectations; Values; 2 Conditions for Healing, Growth, and Change; Confronting the Best and the Worst; Confronting the Irrational; Confronting Psychic Pain: Negative and Positive; Taking a Risk; Action and Tough Love; Revision of Early Trauma through Positive New Experience; 3 The Practitioner's Role; Significance; A Model; Physician Know ThyselfWinning-Losing: The Power Struggle; The Therapeutic Failure and Resolution; 4 Issues Relevant to Any Therapeutic Relationship; The Contract; Contact; Interaction and Communication; Instructions (Essential Qualities); Alternatives; Separation and Termination; 5 Conclusion; Section II-Questions and Answers; Betrayal and Attachment: What Can Practitioners Do When a Patient Resists Treatment that is Working?; How Should Practitioners Talk to Patients about Psychological Problems and Processes in the Context of CM Thinking and Treatment?; How Can Practitioners Guide and/or Support Patients through ; Psychological Events and Challenges?How Can Practitioners Recognize and Deal with a Situation that is Beyond Their Knowledge or Capacity to Handle and Requires Assistance and Referral to Other Health Care Providers Including Hospitalization?; How Can Practitioners Deal Constructively With a Patient's Distrust, Skepticism, Disappointment, Criticism, and Anger Directed at Them?; How Should Practitioners Handle the Cessation of Treatment and/or Relationship?; How Should Practitioners Cope with "Difficult" Patients?; How Should Practitioners Handle Issues of Money and Missing Appointments?How Can Practitioners Handle Inappropriate Sexual Approaches by Patients?; How Should Practitioners Handle Friendship with Patients In and Out of the Clinical Setting?; How Should Practitioners Handle Patients Who Put Them on a Pedestal?; How Should Practitioners Deal with People Who Are Insufficient in Specific Life Functions, Which in Themselves Will Create Further Emotional Problems?; How Can Practitioners Provide Nourishment to People Who Lacked it Early in Life?; How Should Practitioners Respond to Issues of Transference and Counter-transferenceHow Can Practitioners Extract the Essential or Correct from the Less Important or Incorrect?; How Can Practitioners Extract the Positive from What Seems Negative-Native Brilliance, or a Skill Acquired?; Should Practitioners Use Western Counseling Techniques and Approaches, or CM, or Both?; How Can Practitioners Safely Combine Lifestyle Management and CM Diagnosis?; When Should Practitioners Inform Important Others, Spouse, Parents, Relatives, and Other Therapists?; How Should Practitioners Advise Patients Who Are Doing Too Many Things, Seeing Too Many Practitioners?
• Sommario/riassunto: Profit from a wealth of experience in interactions with your patients! The Patient-Practitioner Relationship in Acupuncture is written for acupuncturists and ...