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Elements of Holistic Integrative Health
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
The Whole-Systems Approach: The core principle of integrative medicine is a whole-systems approach that involves a conscious pursuit of the highest level of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Your body has the inherent ability to establish, maintain, and restore health. The role of the integrative practitioner is to facilitate and augment this process, to identify and remove obstacles to health and recovery. A whole-systems approach considers your relationships, as well as the social influences and environmental factors that impact your everyday life and overall health. It offers a range of healing strategies that will engage you in new pathways to better health.
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Published in Tony Cassidy, Stress, Cognition and Health, 2023
A link between social connections and mortality rate was shown in another sample of 2,600 males and females (Vogt et al., 1992). However, in a reanalysis of the same data, Hibbard and Pope (1993) found that social support at work reduced mortality rates only for women. In addition, while social support predicted mortality rates, it was the level of stress rather than social support that predicted the development of coronary heart disease. This suggests a healing effect for social support rather than a preventive one. More recent work provides further evidence that social support may be more protective for women (Mezuk, Diez Roux & Seeman, 2010; Szkody & McKinney, 2020).
Developing Indigenous models of diabetes
Published in Joanna Ziarkowska, Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes, 2020
Published in 1995, Arthur Frank’s seminal work The Wounded Storyteller offers a framework that interprets patients’ responses to illness in relation to how they narrate their altered experiences of embodiment and the need to redefine themselves in a family and friends network (27–52). It is in the stories told by patients that both Kleinman and Frank see the possibility of offering a more comprehensive approach to healing which respects patients and their social and cultural background. Unfortunately, Western medicine tends to pay little attention to these narratives, concentrating instead on returning the body to its biochemical balance with little attention paid to psychological aspects of the loss of health (Kleinman 13–30). Both Kleinman and Frank expand the notion of medicine’s scope of intervention and more importantly, draw attention to culturally sensitive approaches to patients from distinct ethnic backgrounds. A recent explosion in interest in medical humanities further emphasizes culture as an important aspect of healing practices.16
Mental Health Nurses’ Self-Care at Work, Searching for Equilibrium: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2023
Maria O’Malley, Brenda Happell, James O’Mahony
Interest in nurses’ self-care emerged as a strategy to address stress levels of nurses and ultimately influence better care of clients (Bowden et al., 2015; Mangoulia et al., 2015). Self-care may be defined as a “multidimensional, multifaceted process of purposeful engagement in strategies that promote healthy functioning and enhance well-being” (Dorociak et al., 2017, p. 326) including social, spiritual, psychological, physical, and professional aspects. Self-care is essential for nurses well-being, enabling them to “work from a caring-healing paradigm” (Watson, 2012, p. 49). Nurses also need time to reflect on and consider their emotions and needs, minimising personal depletion and building the foundations of a healing presence through self-kindness and self-care (Helming et al., 2020).
The interplay between servant leadership, psychological safety, trust in a leader and burnout: assessing causal relationships through a three-wave longitudinal study
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2023
Fawad Ahmed, Zhengde Xiong, Naveed Ahmad Faraz, Ahmad Arslan
Conceptualized as the initial stage of burnout, emotional exhaustion is one of the early signs of burnout representing a state where employees feel emotionally drained due to the accumulated stress of work. When the demands of interpersonal interactions exceed what employees can afford, they experience emotional exhaustion [27]. Put differently, when nurses believe that they have sufficient resources to tackle the challenging work, there are less chances of emotional exhaustion. Employees require positive social interactions to replenish their emotional resources and heal emotional losses [28]. Working under the supervision of servant leaders provides an opportunity to nurses to have positive social interaction because servant leaders demonstrate ethical behavior, deal fairly and honestly, follow an open-door policy and listen to them without prejudice [29]. Servant leaders also commit themselves to facilitating emotional resolutions that mend their followers’ broken spirits and help them deal with the emotional pain of hardship or trauma in the workplace [30]. Such emotional healing may lead followers to recover quickly from emotional frustration, gain an understanding of why they experience hardship and learn how to prevent emotional pain in the future [31]. Consequently, exposure to servant leadership can help employees avoid emotional exhaustion.
Substance use and HIV: some considerations in a global context
Published in AIDS Care, 2023
In addition to individual-level interventions to reduce HIV transmission, structural interventions are also necessary. For example, homelessness and orphanhood may increase the likelihood of drug initiation and HIV risk among youth (Hillis et al., 2012). Thus structural interventions that include social welfare, child protection and support services for survivors of violence and abuse are necessary to reduce HIV incidence and enhance engagement in care among those living with HIV. It has therefore been suggested that engagement with the structural factors, systems, and processes that drive individual-level HIV-related behaviours, including engagement with care, is necessary (Mastro et al., 2012). Several structural barriers to engagement in care have been identified. These include poverty-related barriers such as poorly functioning transport infrastructure and food insecurity; institutional factors such as overburdened health care facilities, limited access to mental health and substance abuse services and difficulties in ensuring adequate counselling; and political and cultural barriers such as AIDS denialism migration, poor health literacy and the credibility bestowed on traditional healing systems to cure HIV (Kagee et al., 2011). Living in a resource-constrained environment characterised by inadequate housing, unemployment, and social stresses such as violence may consume much cognitive labour of ART users and eclipse the importance of regular clinic visits and high levels of adherence to their medicines.