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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammer, Leon I., Editor.

Series:

Complementary medicine (Thieme (Firm))

Complementary medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acupuncture--Practice.

Acupuncture.

Medical personnel and patient.

Communication in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart ; New York : Thieme, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Profit from a wealth of experience in interactions with your patients! The Patient-Practitioner Relationship in Acupuncture is written for acupuncturists and ...

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-121) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786612785481

9783132579316

3132579319

9783131490414

3131490411

OCLC:

852758288