Practitioners’ use of shared concepts in anthroposophic pain rehabilitation

Abstract

The practitioners' use of a conceptual language is here interpreted as a sign of a shared "caring culture" that enabled them to understand patients and their suffering from an existential perspective. A reciprocal understanding within a caring culture may extend the abilities of practitioners to engage in a dialog with patients about life and health as intertwined with the phenomenon of pain. Implications for rehabilitation In the rehabilitation process, health practitioners' language may contribute to shaping a caring culture that emphasis an understanding of patients' needs of health. Shared concepts in rehabilitation might increase health practitioners' possibilities to support patients from broader and more personalized perspectives, involving not only biopsychosocial aspects but also existential dimensions. The shared conceptual understanding of anthroposophic practitioners in this study may serve as an example to practitioners in other pain rehabilitation settings, developing a contextual understanding of their central concepts, and caring values.

Interprofessional education in nursing: The impact of collaboration between physical and mental health care professionals

“…Within the processes of therapeutic relationships, the language of professionals can contribute to shaping a culture that emphasizes the understanding of the health-related needs of patients, which requires skills [ 24 ]. It is the implicit purpose of all activities in nursing training to generate the capacity to properly care, given that care is the raison d’être of nurses [ 13 , 25 ].…”