Power to the patient

Describes how nurses are coaching patients by telephone as a way to improve self-care for those people with long-term conditions Kate Hilpern Paternalistic is probably the best word to describe the traditional relationship between healthcare professionals and their...

Doors of perception

Explains what is meant by Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, which is coaching individuals to devise their own solutions to problems. Includes case studies Gladeana McMahon In the 1960s, US psychiatrist Aaron Temkin Beck noticed that his patients tended to engage in...