Handbook of Self-Management and the Lived Experience of Healthcare

This edited book focuses on the role of self-management in healthcare and how it may enhance the medical treatment, management and rehabilitation of service users. It offers expert perspectives on topics covering tools and techniques and how they are being incorporated into healthcare, but also critically appraising forthcoming implementation.

Handbook of Self-Management and the Lived Experience of Healthcare begins by introducing the importance of self-management with contemporary and innovative approaches. The book focuses on the impact of self-management and how it affects interpersonal and client based perspectives. The chapters examine how these strategies can help and/or hinder patient/service user outcomes. Each chapter explores the multifaceted use and application of each self-management strategy within its respective specialty and its impacts on diagnosis, treatment, and future management of individuals. It encompasses an array of examples of self-management strategies that will remain pertinent to caregivers, families, practitioners, service users and policymakers. This is not a text on self-management alone but on the societal implications, accompanied by ethical, altruistic and moral examples for such advances within the healthcare field. The book offers original discussions surrounding the interconnectivity of technology and medicine, rehabilitation and patient care.

This book will be useful for healthcare practitioners, researchers, and academics as it provides insight into both contemporary and innovative approaches within the medical field, and it can be used as a text to enrich scholarly learning, teaching and assessment to healthcare programmes nationally and internationally.

Christopher Hayre is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. He has published several original textbooks, which are widely implemented into academic curriculums, with translations into both Mandarin and Arabic. His research impact is evidenced on an international scale, not only influencing policy and practice, but engagement as respected PhD supervisor to students in the UK, UAE, Australia, and South Africa. His areas of expertise are medical imaging, health research, technology, and ethnography.

Dave Muller is currently a Co-Editor of the Rehabilitation in Practice Series, published by CRC Press. He has been involved in the publication of over 50 books and has published over 40 referred papers. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Suffolk, United Kingdom.

Marcia Scherer is a rehabilitation psychologist and founding President of the Institute for Matching Person & Technology. She is also Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Rochester Medical Center where she received both her Ph.D. and MPH degrees. She is Co-Editor of the book series for CRC Press, Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series.

Paul Hackett is a professor in ethnography at Emerson College, Boston, USA., a visiting professor in health research and a dissertation supervisor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Suffolk, UK. He is also a visiting scholar at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. He has developed the declarative mapping sentence out of his research which is concerned with the categorial understanding that humans have of their world and how such understanding underpins and facilitates behaviour, drawing upon several branches of psychology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, bird behaviour and research methods.

Ava Gordley-Smith is PhD research student at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Gordley-Smith’s research aims to develop a multidimensional psychological framework for understanding the relationship and intersection of attitudes toward environmental and social justice issues. Outside of her PhD research, her work focuses more broadly on both theoretical and applied methodologies in health and rehabilitation, the social sciences, and communication studies.