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>