Power (Psychology)

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Organizational learning: could it be the key to higher quality and increased revenues?

Collective learning process creates a sense of staff empowerment. Flattening of leadership levels leads to improved communication. Three core competencies currently are lacking in most ...
(Healthcare Benchmarks Qual Improv, 200210)
organizational-learning-key-higher-quality-increased-revenues.asp

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Actor-centered social work re-visioning "person-in-environment" through a critical theory lens.

The ecosystems perspective has become the most prevalent approach for understanding the relationship between person and social environment. It views the individual and larger social systems as separate but contiguous elements that transact with each ...
Mary Ellen Kondrat (Soc Work, 200210)
actor-centered-social-work-re-visioning-person-environment-critical.asp

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Management or leadership?

This article considers the roots of the division between management and leadership, and suggests that the division encourages individuals and organizations to displace responsibility for problems in health services onto others. Given the significant ...
Keith Grint (J Health Serv Res Policy, 200210)
management-or-leadership.asp

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The functions of the social worker in empowering: the voices of consumers and professionals.

The term "empowerment" has been conceptualized extensively by theorists. Common literature, however, has largely ignored the consumers and practitioners point of view. This study examined how consumers and social workers conceptualize empowerment. To ...
Amnon Boehm, Lee H Staples (Soc Work, 200210)
functions-social-worker-empowering-voices-consumers-professionals.asp

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Opportunities and barriers to empowering people with severe mental illness through participation in treatment planning.

Participation in treatment planning can be one means of empowering clients. However, significant barriers exist to empowering people with severe mental illness through treatment planning. This qualitative study reviewed documents and conducted focus ...
Donald M Linhorst, Gary Hamilton, Eric Young, Anne Eckert (Soc Work, 200210)
opportunities-barriers-empowering-people-severe-mental-illness.asp

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Holism and a health-promoting approach to palliative care.

This article draws on Illichs definition of health and explores the perspective of facing death as a process of adaptation. Research into psychoneuroimmunology is discussed. This focuses on using ones own resources, which the author sees as a central ...
Jenny Buckley (Int J Palliat Nurs, 200210)
holism-health-promoting-approach-palliative-care.asp

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Whos at risk? Factors associated with intimate partner violence in the Philippines.

We describe the individual and household characteristics associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) in the Philippines, using data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS). We also examine 56 in-depth interview transcripts to ...
Michelle J Hindin, Linda S Adair (Soc Sci Med, 200210)
who-s-risk-factors-associated-intimate-partner-violence-philippines.asp

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The different faces of intimate violence: implications for assessment and treatment.

Current research about violence in intimate relationships suggests that at least two qualitatively distinct types of violence exist. This new knowledge challenges the dominant conceptualization of intimate violence as solely a manifestation of ...
Kelly Greene, Marion Bogo (J Marital Fam Ther, 200210)
different-faces-intimate-violence-implications-assessment-treatment.asp

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Partnership: an analysis of the concept within the nurse-client relationship.

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE: Current nursing literature that describes the nurse-client relationship as a partnership provides little clarity about the elements and processes of this partnership. This is hardly surprising as conceptual definitions of ...
Mae H Gallant, Marcia C Beaulieu, Franco A Carnevale (J Adv Nurs, 200210)
partnership-analysis-concept-nurse-client-relationship.asp

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Discourse in different voices: reconciling N = 1 and N = many.

When groups are convened to discuss the making of policy, people are chosen to represent particular interests because they have relevant experience. Different stakeholders, however, may use differing discourses, and particular discourses may be ...
Miles Little, Christopher F C Jordens, Kim Paul, Emma-Jane Sayers, Jane Ann Cruickshank, Jantine Stegeman, Kathleen Montgomery (Soc Sci Med, 200210)
discourse-different-voices-reconciling-n-n-many.asp