Workshop: Negotiating between health beliefs
Date published: 2009-08-13 16:48:38
Do our patients' beliefs matter in their treatment?
If health workers do not consider the beliefs and viewpoints of their patients, quality of care can be adversely affected. Conversely, health workers who seek to understand a patient's vision of a particular health issue can often negotiate an acceptable and achievable course of action or treatment.
This two-part workshop explores different understandings of health and illness, and how they impact on patients' health-seeking behaviour.
Participants who complete the first workshop will have time to put their learnings into practice and review them in the second workshop.
Key learning outcomes
- identify key components of the world's major health belief systems
- understand how health beliefs are affected by cultural change
- negotiate between differing health beliefs through an explanatory model of health
- identify different types of illness narrative approaches for working with clients.
Dates:
Part 1: Wednesday 19 August, 9am to 1.30pm.
Part 2: Wednesday 18 November, 9am to 1.30pm.
For more information, please contact:
Viv Fox
Tel: (61 3) 9342 9700
Web: http://www.ceh.org.au/training/workshops.aspx#negotiating
Email: enquiries@ceh.org.au
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