Glossary P
Glossary P
Patient empowerment is a concept that has recently emerged in the health scene. It embraces the idea that patients have the right to make their own choices about their health care. The empowerment model is based on the assumption that to be truly healthy, people must bring about changes not only in their personal behavior but also in their social situations and in the environment that influences their lives. This empowerment model has evolved out of the realization that patients cannot be forced to follow a lifestyle dictated by others.
Patient orientation refer to patient education programs designed to inform patients about their disorder and its treatment and to train them in methods for coping with a disorder and its corresponding limitations.
Patient uniformity myth is the tendency to consider all members of a category as more similar than they are, ignoring their individual differences.
Patients' rights movement refers to a movement to ensure that mental patients retain their basic rights and to remove them from institutions and care for them in the community.