Counseling model: creating a healing environment in hospitals

Journal/Book: Patient Educ Couns. 1999; 36: Customer Relations Manager Bay 15, Shannon Industrial Estate CO, Clare, Ireland. Elsevier Sci Ireland Ltd. 81-89.

Abstract: There are ways in which more holistic approaches to medicine can be achieved through the establishment of alternative hospitals and health-care centers, as has happened in the United States, and changes in midwifery and care for the dying through a more compassionate approach and the use of prescriptive music. Transformations of medical care in The Netherlands are also taking place, with existing hospitals gradually developing more patient-centered approaches and organizations like the Helen Dowling Institute providing tailor-made forms of psyche-social counseling for those with cancer and life-threatening illness.

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Keyword(s): hospital; healing; midwifery; holistic; music; birth; death

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