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Community-Based Healthcare

The Search for Mindful Dialogues

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Diane Tasker

    1. Education, Practice and Employability Network, Australia

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  2. Joy Higgs

    1. Charles Sturt University, Australia

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  3. Stephen Loftus

    1. Oakland University, USA

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  • This book explores the way mindful dialogues can enhance community-based healthcare.
  • The narrative style of its central chapters makes for an engaging read, allowing the reader to feel and better understand the relational nature of healthcare in a community context where many different jobs now exist.
  • The book arose out of doctoral research on community-based healthcare and is grounded in the real-life experiences of practitioners, clients and their careers.

Part of the book series: Practice, Education, Work and Society (PEWS)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Setting the Scene: Community-Based Healthcare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Community-Based Healthcare

      • Stephen Loftus, Diane Tasker
      Pages 3-8

  3. A Qualitative Study into Community-Based Therapeutic Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Constructing Mindful Dialogues in Healthcare

      • Diane Tasker, Joy Higgs
      Pages 11-24

    3. Narrative as a Lens on Practice

      • Diane Tasker
      Pages 25-32

    4. Hearing their Voices

      • Diane Tasker
      Pages 33-52

    5. A Model for Mindful Dialogues In Community-Based Practice

      • Diane Tasker, Joy Higgs
      Pages 53-66

  4. Community-Based Healthcare: Lived Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Being a Client

      • Mark Horton, Diane Tasker
      Pages 69-74

    3. Families

      • Tania De Bortoli, Diane Tasker, Catherine Murray
      Pages 75-80

    4. When a Nurse Comes to Call

      • Helen Fenech, Jackie Finlayson, Diane Tasker
      Pages 81-86

    5. Care and Caring

      • Gabrielle Klymenko
      Pages 87-92

    6. A Doctor’s Tale

      • Katriona Herborn
      Pages 93-98

    7. Therapy Tales

      • Tania De Bortoli, Bronwyn Couch, Diane Tasker
      Pages 99-104

    8. The Care Assessor’s Story

      • Sharyn Williams, Diane Tasker
      Pages 105-110

    9. Life After Brain Injury

      • Kathleen Mccarthy, Diane Tasker
      Pages 111-116

    10. Mental Healthcare in our Community

      • Maria Fitzgerald
      Pages 117-122

    11. Palliative Care

      • Debbie Horsfall, Joy Higgs
      Pages 123-132

    12. Case Management

      • Jane Meiklejohn
      Pages 133-138
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Education, Practice and Employability Network, Australia

    Diane Tasker

  • Charles Sturt University, Australia

    Joy Higgs

  • Oakland University, USA

    Stephen Loftus

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Community-Based Healthcare

  • Book Subtitle: The Search for Mindful Dialogues

  • Editors: Diane Tasker, Joy Higgs, Stephen Loftus

  • Series Title: Practice, Education, Work and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-995-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-995-9Published: 18 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CCX, 10

  • Topics: Education, general

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