Idiographic approach to health

The concept of health is a challenge of great complexity in terms of theoretical, methodological and intervention within the idiographic frame.Health cannot be considered an abstract condition, but a means, a resource aimed at achieving objectives that relate to the ability of people to lead their l...

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Other Authors De Luca Picione, Raffaele (Editor), Nedergaard, Jensine (Editor), Freda, Maria Francesca (Editor), Salvatore, Sergio (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2019]
SeriesYIS (Series)
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607198
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-428-6
Physical Description1 online resource (336 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editor's preface: Health: The general in the unique / Jaan Valsiner
  • Chapter 1. Health: A current challenge for the idiographic sciences / Maria Francesca Freda, Raffaele De Luca Picione, Jensine Nedergaard, and Sergio Salvatore
  • Section 1. The dynamic construction of borders between health and illness
  • Section 1.1. Critical analysis of the health notion. An idiographic lens on the topic. Different paths between generalization and idiography
  • Chapter 2. Five inconsistencies in scientific discourse / Sven Hroar Klempe
  • Chapter 3. The enigmatic soul of health: From balance to inscape / Robert E. Innis
  • Chapter 4. Values and the singular aims of idiographic inquiry / Tim Thornton
  • Chapter 5. Psychopathology: Mental illness and relationship between idiography and health: The case of transsexuals' experience / Roberto Vitelli
  • Section 1.2: Healthcare relationship and possible functions of idiographic approaches
  • Chapter 6. Crisis of medical institution: An idiographic approach / Annalisa Venezia and Chiara Marangio
  • Chapter 7. From medicalizing discourse to situated practices. from reification to semiotization of processes of sensemaking: The function of psychological scaffolding in the experience of the disease within the healthcare relationship / Raffaele De Luca Picione, Francesca Dicé, and Maria Francesca Freda
  • Chapter 8. Communicative partnership between more than two: When a child becomes a patient / Jensine Ingerslev Nedergaard and Elise Snitker Jensen
  • Section 1.3: The care of social context. The extension of idiography to wider frames
  • Chapter 9. Growing up in the suburbs: Stories of adolescents at risk and of their "maestri di strada" / Santa Parrello
  • Chapter 10. The generational shift in the family business: Defining the condition to plan the intervention / Barbara Cordella and Assunta Capasso
  • Section 2: Narrations of health and illness
  • Section 2.1: The narration of the unspeakable. Health and illness in one's own experience
  • Chapter 11. Disquieting experiences, borders, and healthcare processes / Lvía Mathias Simão and Giuseppina Marsico
  • Chapter 12. I get along without you ...: On billie holiday, clichés and psychological truth / Yair Neuman
  • Chapter 13. Lessons of pathosophy--and implications for medical care / Elin Hk̄onsen Martinsen
  • Section 2.2: The modelling of narrative processes in the clinical context
  • Chapter 14. Narrative functions to support the meaning-making process during cancer traumatic experience in pediatric oncology / Maria Luisa Martino and Maria Francesca Freda
  • Chapter 15. The power of self-narratives in health / João Tiago Oliveira, Miguel M. Gonȧlves, João Batista, and Adrián Montesano
  • Chapter 16. Commentary: The enchantment of stories / Luca Tateo
  • Section 2.3: The idiographic challenge of narrations in the research processes
  • Chapter 17. The idiographic science perspective applied to the treatment of younger women with brca mutation / Emanuela Saita, Sara Molgora, and Chiara Acquati
  • Chapter 18. Risk and prevention: Women's experiences of barriers to cancer screening / Daniela Lemmo and Adele Nunziante Cesáro
  • Chapter 19. The role of narrative in promoting changes in illness transitions of the life-span: An idiographic approach / Andrea Smorti and Chiara Fioretti. Author Biosketches.