Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care: Around Recovery

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience. It argues that a person-centred approach to health care, focusing less on the condition of pain and more on mobilizing the persons who present with and manage pain, can help individuals flourish.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 172 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the potential of refining person-centered health care to alleviate pain-related distress and transform pain into a potentially positive experience. Traditionally, Western intellectual culture has prioritized rational, natural-scientific perspectives, downplaying the intuitive and emotional aspects. Applied to pain, an instrumental approach aims to provide immediate and effective relief, considering the widespread suffering and economic implications. However, Buetow recognizes that pain experiences vary among individuals, extending beyond a mere commitment to eliminate it. He explores how the benefits of pain can be harnessed, including the creation and management of meaning through pain. Rather than seeking to transcend pain, individuals can thrive by moving around, through, into, and above it. Buetow argues that this model necessitates adopting a person-centered approach to health care, prioritizing the individual's perspective and capabilities in managing pain.

This book holds immense interest for professionals and academics/researchers in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, particularly those with a special focus on individuals living with persistent pain conditions. It serves as an invaluable resource for physiotherapists, chronic pain consultants in secondary care, and GPs. By exploring the nuances of pain and person-centered care, this book offers valuable insights and practical strategies for improving the well-being of those experiencing pain.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367699024