collaborative family health care

a form of interdisciplinary practice based on the belief that health events occur simultaneously on biological, psychological, and social levels. Collaborative clinicians share decision making and responsibility with patients and their families and integrate clinical expertise from relevant disciplines to provide patients with comprehensive and coordinated care.

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December 19th 2024

being-beyond-the-world

n. in existential psychology, the potential for human beings to transcend the limitations of being-in-the-world, usually through selfless love. See also Dasein. [introduced by Swiss existential psychologist Ludwig Binswanger (1881–1966)]