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- Title
Giving Help to Resisting Patients.
- Authors
Michaels, Ruth
- Abstract
The article discusses tendency of patients to resist medical intervention and explains various methods and strategies for medical social workers to deal with such situations. In these varied situations, the worker is faced with a common problem in helping the patient participate constructively in his medical care. In each, the patient sees the steps of the medical program as a disintegrating assault upon him and upon his image of himself as an acceptable human being. In each, therefore, for his own survival, he has to mobilize reserves of strength to combat the assault. The caseworker's problem is to redirect the fight for survival so that it can effectively promote the patient's effort at self-presentation. Somehow, the steps of medical treatment must be separated for the patient from his idea that they are assaultive, if he is to act on them for his own benefit. It is only when he invests the necessary treatment with some semblance of protection of his basic interests that he can participate constructively in his medical care and rehabilitation.
- Subjects
SOCIAL case work; PATIENT-professional relations; SOCIAL services; SOCIAL workers; PATIENT participation; REHABILITATION
- Publication
Social Work, 1956, Vol 1, Issue 4, p76
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article