Hello everyone

I picked up a dictionary last w/e and had a fun time searching for words to employ in connection with a website. If I can please provide some background ….

Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model (h2cm).

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/

- can help map health, social care and other issues, problems AND solutions, taking a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:

* Interpersonal;
* Sociological;
* Empirical;
* Political (Autonomy).

You can call this structure - a model, conceptual framework, holistic tool, conceptual integrator. ‘Career’ in the title refers to the idea of people having a ‘life’ career, during which there are life chances… etc.

I was wondering if there is a word that can capture the universal scope of this model – both the subject domains above and two axes.

Humanistic -------------- Mechanistic
individual -------------- group

I noticed a word 'precordic' (over the heart) and wondered about combining this with cognitive in some way, as the model covers body and mind – physical and spiritual.

Another possible lead is the model's ability to support reflection, prior to a ‘project’ whether care planning, e-learning, but ‘pre-processing’ for example is too mechanistic.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated, maybe 'holistic' will have to do?

Thank you for your consideration.

Best wishes,

Peter
h2cm webmaster/Contributor
UK
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Peter Jones
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care

welcome to the board, peter j!

what's a "situated view"?

Hi,
All I can say is that "holistic" is maybe no longer positively received across the board (like any term ending in "..istic", by the way).

Welcome aBoard Peter.

I have no clue what you are asking (or saying) above. Can you explain it to me?

Hi,

'Situated view' - yes a bit nebulous. I've used it in the sense of a person (patient or client) in a specific situation. The 'situated' part is emphasised due to the person-centred approach. 'Situated' arises in human-computer interaction studies, learning and training, and health care, and is an enormous area of study...

Regards,
Peter J

'Holistic' here refers to the term coined by Smuts:

http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=296834&query=jan smuts&ct="ebi"

Recognising the complexity and multicontextual nature of caring, academics provided 'models', a mental framework to act as a memory jogger. A guide for learners and a prompt for experienced staff. Hodges' model is one example of such tools. Hodges' model seeks to ensure 'holistic' practice by directing the nurse, doctor, (policy maker!) to consider the 'patient' as a whole person - not just a physically derived diagnosis.

Hodges' model provides four knowledge domains (listed above) which if called upon can (IMHO) encompass all human knowledge. The spiritual - often stated in the form of 'why' questions lies beyond the boundaries of these domains, but undoubtedly intersects them via concepts such as - love, faith, belief, ethics....

This suggests something much more than an 'holistic' tool - but what other word can be used?

As our problems get ever more complex, so too do the solutions. I am wondering if models (frameworks) such as Hodges' can help - especially if allied to *effective* info. comms & technologies?

Such an application may demand new terminology?

TIA
Peter J

I used to see wholistic used frequently back in the 70's, and I prefer it because it connotes the sense of wholeness which is the whole point (no pun intended). Body, mind & spirit...natural health and well-being. As the w disappeared holistic got shoved more into a cultist, or even religious, corner, especially by those who tried, and are trying, to lump everything not supported by *their religion under a "New Age" heading and demonize it.

I'm with you, juan. Wholistic is exactly what is meant and that it seems the only reason one looks for a different word here is *someone else has stolen it for alterior definitions/motives.

As science has derobed the personally beneficial effects of laughter, hope and providing care for others, it leads me to anticipate finding that isolation, resentment and despair slowly whittle away at ones whole...

[music]...you've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative...[/music]

...ba-da-Bing!

Yo, Peter.

If someone here comes up with a word/expression that works for you, what's the royalties?

Tetrachiral?

Four domains with the implication of taking into account both sides (left/right, mirror images etc) of the situation.

cheer

the sunshine warrior

Hi again,

Thanks for everyone's thoughts - *very* helpful. No royalities I'm afraid I'm still saving up for my 1st laptop. :-)

Yes thanks for reminding me (w)holistic has been used within health, I wonder though if it still rings of 'holistic' - as per messages above?

Great idea shanks ... 'Tetrachiral' has a nice ring to it!
Sympathetic to the model, which readily incorporates the objective -- subjective, quantitative -- qualitative, mind -- body, arts -- sciences.

Maybe 'pentachiral' - the four quadrants surrounded and intereacting with an outer spiritual domain?
But if you were doing an assessment using this approach what verb would apply? So many actions...

You consider (alone or with) the patient & carer the information they are providing, that from written or computer records, relating this to each care domain. For experienced staff there is a reliance on tacit knowledge and gestalt - pattern recognition.

Awaiting another sunny day to look at more than 'p' if you get my meaning....
Best wishes
Peter