Essential values-based practice : clinical stories linking science with people

Foreword , from a patient perspective -- Foreword, from a clinician perspective -- A bold claim to start this book -- Prologue: linking science with people -- Values, individuals and an overview of values-based practice: introduction to 'it's my back, doctor!' (episode 1): values in clinical decision making -- 'It's my back, Doctor!' (episode 2): applying the tools already in the clinical toolbox for working with values to individuals -- An outline of values-based practice: its point, premise and ten-part process -- The clinical skills for values-based practice: introduction to recovery in schizophrenia: a values wake-up call -- Teenage acne: widening our values horizons -- A smoking enigma: getting (and not getting) the knowledge -- Diabetic control and controllers: nothing without communication -- Relationships in values-based practice: introduction to 'best' in breast cancer: clinician values and person-centred care -- Risks in safeguarding children: team values as well as skills -- Science and values-based practice: introduction to the reluctant hypertensive: think evidence, think values too! -- Unexplainable abdominal pain: think values, think evidence too! -- Elective fertility: think high-tech, think evidence and values! -- Bringing it all together: introduction to a good (enough) death: dissensus in end of life care -- 'It's my back, Doctor!' (episode 3) -- Postscript: the small change of care -- A bold claim to end this book.