Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing

<p>This book builds on the person-centred medicine movement to promote a shift in the philosophy of care of distress. It discusses the vital importance of whole person health, healing and growth. Developing a new transdisciplinary concept of <em>sense of safety</em>, this book argues that the whole person needs to be understood within their context and relationships and explores the appraisal and coping systems that are part of health.</p><p>Using clinical vignettes to illustrate her argument, Lynch draws on an understanding of attachment, and trauma-informed approaches to life story and counsels against an over-reliance on symptom-based fragmentation of body and mind.</p><p>Integrating literature from social determinants of health, psychology, psychotherapy, education and the social sciences with new research from the fields of immunology, endocrinology and neurology, this broad-ranging book is relevant to all those with an interest in person-centred healthcare, including academics and practitioners from medicine, nursing, mental health and public health.</p> <p><strong><em>Section I-Building a Case for a Shift in Practitioner and Researcher Mindset </em>1.</strong>Transcending Parts to See a Whole–Humpty Dumpty Represents Us All. 2.Reductionist Barriers to Seeing the Whole–Why Can’t the King’s Men Put Humpty Together Again? 3.Transcending Disciplinary Silos: Where the New Science is Leading Us–Seeing All of Humpty at Once. 4.Why Sense of Safety? A Strengths-Based Approach to the Whole 5.Senses Protect Integrity, Connection, and Coherence–Humpty’s ‘Sense of’ His World Matters <em><strong>Section II-Building the COncept of Sense of Safety: Insights from Consultation </strong></em>6.The Integrative Gift of an Ordinary Phrase–Humpty’s Native Tongue 7.Sense of Safety Whole Person Domains–Mapping How much of Humpty we need to consider 8.Nouns of Disorder and Verbs of Wellbeing: Noticing Dynamics can Build Humpty’s Sense of Safety 9.Dynamics of Sense of Safety–What Processes Build, Protect, and Reveal Humpty’s Sense of Safety? 10.Sense of Safety: A Paradigm Shift That is Sorely Needed–Accompanying Humpty and His Community Towards Wholeness. </p>