Caring for patients in alcohol-dependent: Prejudices and attitudes against alcoholic patients

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/22/2009

Category :

Science & technology

Sub category :

Medical studies

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Summary :

Summary
Introduction
Status of the problem
The nature of the disorder
Attitudes of patients
Attitudes of caregivers
Relational strategies and proposals
Bibliography

Abstract

alcoholic patients often uncomfortable caregivers in general and doctors in particular. Trigger behavior among health professionals emotional reactions that directly affect the nature of the therapeutic relationship. These reactions, called against-attitudes, are rooted in the relationships that caregivers have with alcohol in their relationship with their experiences of phenomena of dependence and in how they view their care-giving role. Knowledge of these attitudes against-should enable the caregiver to overcome in order to provide a therapeutic relationship emerged prejudice.
Introduction
The motivational model of a hand and knowledge of biological, psychosocial or psychological condition and social experiences of patients in their disease on the other hand, are powerful tools to help understand and therefore more effective in alcoholic patients their desire to rebuild or simply to live their difficulties.Often ignored, even despised by caregivers in general and doctors in particular, alcoholic patients are more than any other patient, not only because of a stigma, but also a malaise that captures therapists and obstacles in their desire to heal, ambition for the less legitimate but sometimes suffers motivations unclear, even unrealistic. (1) The result of this situation is to divide the body of the crudely caregivers into two, namely those for whom the alcoholic patients represent a group save and those who, on the contrary, it is unnecessary to devote their time because their situation is in any way without hope. Between these two attitudes a little grotesque, caregivers often have difficulty in a relationship exist footprint of both realism and humanity