Positive Approaches to Health by Gary Kielhofner (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Positive Approaches to Health by Gary Kielhofner, Claire Dumont Offers the reader a number of different perspectives on health-related interventions. This work look beyond the lacks or disfunctions associated with disease and impairment and emphasise instead peoples strength, and hope as well as to be lifted up by creative contexts, literature and other resources of the environment. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The aim of this book is to offer the reader a number of different perspectives on health-related interventions. It seeks to go beyond the dominant biomedical perspectives that emphasis disease, diagnosis, cure or management of symptoms/impairments. While this biomedical perspective has been highly successful in managing disease and some of its sequelae, there are many dimensions of human experience that are not effectively touched by this approach. Moreover, the biomedical perspective tends to rely on normative view that sees disease and impairment as an aberration. The perspectives offered in this book are highly diverse, but they have one thing in common. They each discuss a positive approach that aims to enhance health and well being. Moreover, they look beyond the lacks or disfunctions associated with disease and impairment and emphasise instead peoples strength, abilities, and potentials to harness inner motivation, stories, spirit, and hope as well as to be lifted up by creative contexts, literature and other resources of the environment. Table of Contents Preface; Cognitive Functions as Adaptation Factors and Resilience in Neglected Children; Volition: The Motivational Dimension of Health, Illness and Impairment; Possibility Spaces in Everyday Life: On creative Potentials in Interventions for Persons with Life-Threatening Incurable Illness; Theorisation of Spirituality in Health Care: An Illustration Through Occupational Therapy; Ecological Approaches to Health: Interactions Between Humans and Their Environment; Positive Psychology and Health; Empowerment Approaches to Identifying and Addressing Health Concerns Among Minorities with Disabilities; Intersectoral Action and Empowerment: Keys to Ensuring Community Competence and Improving Public Health; Literature and Medicine: Possible Amalgam?; Index. Details ISBN1600218008 Pages 218 Publisher Nova Science Publishers Inc Year 2007 ISBN-10 1600218008 ISBN-13 9781600218002 Format Hardcover Imprint Nova Science Publishers Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Claire Dumont DEWEY 613 Birth 1954 Author Claire Dumont Edition 1st Language English DOI 10.1604/9781600218002 AU Release Date 2007-06-06 NZ Release Date 2007-06-06 Audience Professional & Vocational UK Release Date 2007-12-17 Publication Date 2007-12-17 US Release Date 2007-12-17 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158421269;

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