The Mind-Body-Spirit Learning Model: Transformative Learning Connections to Holistic Perspectives: Seizing Control of Your Healthcare--The Relationship among Self-Agency, Transformative Learning, and Wellness

Autor/in	King, Kathleen P.
Titel	The Mind-Body-Spirit Learning Model: Transformative Learning Connections to Holistic Perspectives: Seizing Control of Your Healthcare--The Relationship among Self-Agency, Transformative Learning, and Wellness
Quelle	In: International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 3 (2012) 3, S.37-51, Artikel 4 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1947-8607
DOI	10.4018/javet.2012070104
Schlagwörter	Transformative Learning; Models; Holistic Approach; Wellness; Health Services; Health Education; Health Promotion; Self Advocacy; Ethnography; Cultural Differences; Misconceptions; Compliance (Legal); Disadvantaged; Theory of Mind + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pädagogische Transformation; Analogiemodell; Holistischer Ansatz; Well being; Well-being; Wohlbefinden; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Selbstbehauptung; Ethnografie; Kultureller Unterschied; Missverständnis
Abstract	At a time when the medical field is dominated by the pressures of private insurance demands and government regulations, many people discover they need to be self advocates in order to battle illness and regain their health. Moreover, these issues are not constant, as many countries (like the USA) face changing demographics and continuing radical changes in healthcare funding. These conditions require that patients seeking healthcare re-examine constantly their assumptions on several levels including, but not limited to medical professionals' motivations, training and accuracy, healthcare philosophies, and recommended treatments. Within this context, patients' self-advocacy becomes essential. Yet such positive independence regarding the medical professions contradicts traditional American cultural mores. A critical question for this situation springs from adult learning and development: what are the relationships among discovering self-agency in personal healthcare, wellness, and transformative learning? This article uses the frame of an autoethnography to explore the relationship among these domains. The writer's eight-year journey through debilitating illness includes growing understandings of and connections among transformative learning, mind-body-spirit connections, self-agency, self-advocacy, and cultural concepts of wellness. (As Provided).
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