An excerpt from Rachel Clarke’s ‘Dear Life‘, as read on radio (BBC Radio 4) by the author, on her work as a doctor in end of life care, at a hospice. Here, Rachel recounts an encounter with one memorable resident at the home. It’s uplifting story of a thoroughly person-centred approach, going with a […]
Keyword Groups: Clients and Needs
other health concerns
The prevalence of gambling addictions is just being recognised; but perhaps not enough to merit a category of its own. But the ‘other’ category may allow us to assess the prevalence of a range other issues, which we can then feed into a research agenda.
sexuality
Beyond the LGBT community as a category, we don’t specify further at this stage at least.
young people
We don’t specify an upper age limit to youth. Use this if it seems relevant to your service or interests.
refugees or asylum seekers
To side-step legal arguments, we may eventually wish to include all vulnerable migrants in this group
other health issues
The prevalence of gambling addictions is just being recognised; but perhaps not enough to merit a category of its own. But the ‘other’ category may allow us to assess the prevalence of a range other issues, which we can then feed into a research agenda.
addiction
By this we mean, for the moment, all and any substance abuse other than alcohol. But see ‘other’, below
Acquired Brain Injury
The high prevalence of ‘traumatic’ or ‘acquired brain injury’ (ABI) is only just being recognised in services.
PTSD
Strictly speaking, post-traumatic stress disorder applies to the consequences of one major stress. It has been suggested that a pattern of accumulated stresses might be called “chronic PTSD”; but we prefer the term “complex trauma”, as it is the enmeshing complexity as much as the duration that is the key issue. (See also ‘complex needs’)
attachment issues
It is arguable that ‘attachment issues’ is not a diagnostic term. But there is now a growing consensus that early attachment issues underlie a range of mental health problems in later life, most obviously ‘personality disorders’ ( or ‘histories of complex trauma’ as we prefer to describe them.),