Healing Circles: An Ethnographic Study of the Interactions among Health and Healing Practitioners from Multiple Disciplines

Jordan, Meg

doi:10.7453/gahmj.2014.035

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“…Following circle procedures, the practitioners engaged in active listening and communicated empathetically and nonjudgmentally. Significant findings of this 8-year ethnographic study resulted in a client-centered focus, participatory process, minimization of clinician's control, egalitarian relationships, and enhanced multidisciplinary knowledge (Jordan, 2014).…”

Section: Spiritual Development Floweringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonial psychotherapy: Joining the circle, healing the wound.

Comas-Díaz,

Jacobsen

2024

Decolonial Psychology: Toward Anticolonial Theories, Research, Training, and Practice.

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Section: Spiritual Development Floweringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonial psychotherapy: Joining the circle, healing the wound.

Comas-Díaz,

Jacobsen

2024

Decolonial Psychology: Toward Anticolonial Theories, Research, Training, and Practice.

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“…They also provide ways for CHAs to learn to support each other, and practice self-and stress-management tools. Healing Circles have been shown to enhance camaraderie and support for practitioners who work with patients with significant needs (27). They have also resulted in statistically significant improvements in quality of life and emotional relief for participants (28).…”

Section: Healing Circlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adding a Seat at the Table: A Case Study of the Provider's Perspective on Integrating Community Health Workers at Provider Practices in California

C¹,

Durazo²,

Purry³

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Blue Shield of California's Community Health Advocate Program was created to support whole person-health needs by helping individuals of all socio-economic statuses navigate and access community resources, social services, and medical systems. Blue Shield's Health Reimagined team is partnering with medical providers, community resources centers, and community partners to provide intensive person-centered and technology-enabled care to patients, ensuring social needs are met while promoting health equity. A key aspect of the Health Reimagined initiative embeds Community Health Advocates (CHAs) within physician practices serving patients using a payor-agnostic approach, by which Blue Shield aims to increase access to social services and community resources, improve health outcomes, reduce medical costs, and improve overall patient experience. The purpose of this case study is to understand the provider's perspective of embedding a CHA into the care team and the resulting impact on the practice and patients. Blue Shield also sought to identify best practices and barriers of a CHA program within primary and specialty care practices. As part of an ongoing two-year mixed-methods impact evaluation (2019–2021), 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 18 providers and office staff at five primary care and specialty practices where CHAs have been embedded. We also conducted two focus groups with the same five CHAs at different points in time. Several themes emerged from the provider, office staff, and CHA interviews. Provider practices found great value in adding a CHA to their care team as the CHA brings flexibility and continuity to patient care. They also found that having access to a CHA with shared life experiences of the communities they served is a key component to the program's success. Providers and staff reported a new understanding of the social determinants of health that impacts a patient's wellbeing with the embedding of a CHA in the care team. Overall, practitioners expressed high satisfaction with the CHA program. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CHAs have been critically important in care, as social needs have increased, and resources have shifted. The CHA program is constantly adapting to address challenges faced by all stakeholders and applying new knowledge to ensure best practices are implemented within the CHA program.

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“…There is preliminary descriptive support for the use of circles in multiple other settings for equally varied purposes through numerous case studies. circles have been used to improve integrated healthcare and thereby overall health outcomes by bringing together patients, their multiple providers and support systems to work through stressful decisions and circumstances; encourage transparency and understand options for care; process the frustration and fatigue those with chronic illness face; share insights and information with the patient; and heal social relationships that go beyond the physical conditions with which they are struggling (Jordan, 2014;Mehl-Madrona & Mainguy, 2014). Circles have also successfully been used in bringing together community organizations, law enforcement and youth involved in gangs in the prevention of violence (Boyes-Watson, 2008); increasing academic achievement and safety and reducing delinquency in schools (Hopkins, 2002;Porter, 2007); intervening in domestic violence with both victims and offenders (Zakheim & Faye, 2011).…”

Section: Support For the Utility Of Circle Processes In Organizations...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective Leadership and Circles: Not Invented Here

Mattaini

Holtschneider

2017

Journal of Organizational Behavior Management

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The need for systems/cultural level change addressing intractable and escalating social and environmental challenges is well established. One of the attractions of behavior analysis for many has been the potential to have an impact on such challenges (certainly since Skinner, 1948;1953). Issues like police-community relations, violence-from neighborhood to global levels, economic inequality, and climate change have been only minimally addressed within behavior analysis, despite the oft repeated mantra that they are all at root behavioral. Disciplines determine the scope of their interests; behavior analysis and behavioral systems analysis have

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Healing Circles: An Ethnographic Study of the Interactions among Health and Healing Practitioners from Multiple Disciplines

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Decolonial psychotherapy: Joining the circle, healing the wound.

Decolonial psychotherapy: Joining the circle, healing the wound.

Adding a Seat at the Table: A Case Study of the Provider's Perspective on Integrating Community Health Workers at Provider Practices in California

Collective Leadership and Circles: Not Invented Here

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