The workbook on Whole Person Health Care will follow the course curriculum and enable the distance learner to access resources, conduct tasks and excercises, reflect on issues raised, discuss points and participate in tutorial sessions.
The Workbook will consist of a core book which follows the first year of the Academy in which all students grasp the basic, foundational issues of a whole person approach to health care. There will then be individual workbooks for each of the Special, Self-selected modules in the second year. Below we have the index to the 12 core modules covered in the first year of the Academy. The index to the special study modules in the second and third years of study are on a seperate page.
All of these proposals are draft at this stage, and these pages are intended to stimulate debate and pilot the production of the workbook over the next two years.
All comments and suggestions please send to - drmikesheldon@aol.com
CORE MODULES WORKBOOK PROPOSAL
MODULE
INCLUDES
CM 01 World Views
This module starts with a discussion of world views and beliefs and then includes:
Philosophy of medicine
History of the development of modern medical practice
Beliefs of patients and doctors
The Placebo effect
CM 02 Anthropology
This module covers the study of anthropology as it applies to models of mankind used in health care and medical practice. It includes:
Mind-Body problem
What is man?
Soul and Spirit
CM 03 Whole Model of man
This module builds a whole person model of mankind and includes:
Body/mind/spirit
Definitions of spirituality
Place of religious practice
CM 04 Health
This module explores the concept of health and includes: Defnitions of health
Understanding illness
Disease, illness and sickness
Cultural differences
CM 05 Alternative models
This module explores the different alternative models of health care delivery developed over the last three decades. It includes:
CAM - Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Deficiencies in the "Scientific Humanist" model of medicine
Critics - eg Ivan Illich
Narrative Medicine
Salutogenesis
Complexity Theory
CM 06 The healing relationship
This module discusses the healing relationship between the patient and the therapist, and includes:
Compassion
Competencies of a "healing therapist" - the art of healing
Healing is helping people to become healthier
Advocacy
Providing hope and meaning
CM 07 Team working
This module emphasise the importance of an Integrated Health Care team and includes:
How to integrate the team members
Who are the team members
The patient and their carers as part of the team.
CM 08 Making a diagnosis
This module explores the process of making a diagnosis and includes:
Patho-physiological model of diagnostics
Problem based diagnosis
Whole Person diagnoses
CM 09 The patient's experience
This modules focusses on the patient's experience of illness and includes:
Hearing the patient's story
Healthy and unhealthy stories
Self Help groups
Providing the patient with tools to improve health
Empowering the patient
CM 10 Problems in delivery
This module looks at "real life" in the NHS and explores the difficulties of providing whole person care - it includes:
Time management
Targets and priorities
Discordance between world views of patient and therapist
Ethics and professionalism
Patient's expectations
Education and beliefs
Chronic Disease
Death and dying
CM 11 ??
The missing module
What have I left out?
CM 12 Examples of good practice
This modules explores some examples of good practice in the delivery of a whole person approach to health care and includes:
Burrswood
Listening skills and Acorn
Spritual Care Advisors in General Practice
Birmingham Community Mental Health - Spirituality and Care
Hospice care
