The International Journal of Whole Person Care

Volume 9, Number 1, 2022 Congress October 2021

This special edition is devoted entirely to the 4th International Congress on Whole Person Care (21-24 October, 2021) and includes all accepted abstracts for oral presentations that were presented at this conference.

Table of contents (31 articles)

Congress 2021

  1. A new construct: mindful procedural touch
  2. The lived experiences of teenage girls with scoliosis and the effect of a peer support group, Curvy Girls
  3. Introduction of GRACE program required for COVID-19 disaster - especially for exhausted healthcare workers
  4. The patient as teacher-learnings about becoming a good physician from senior medical students
  5. Engaging healthcare providers and patients on climate action through physical, emotional and social wellness
  6. Peer support for adolescent girls living with scoliosis: finding a digital community
  7. Project Lotus: A really cool community-based initiative assisting women post-homelessness
  8. Traditional & narrative practices of treatment for depression and depressive symptoms in older adults
  9. A student-run free clinic project: lessons in compassion, community, and courage
  10. Kintsugi mind: clinicians can emerge from the pandemic whole
  11. The impact of virtual care on relationship centered care: Observations of a family physician
  12. The use of digital tablets eases the way to compassionate care during the COVID-19 pandemic
  13. Lessons from the "non-critical" patient during a pandemic: developmental-behavioural pediatric populations & COVID-19
  14. Online health promotion program and individualized health coaching for veteran wellbeing
  15. Looking into the kaleidoscope of activism: the engagement of care ethics and global bioethics for a refined health security
  16. Developing a collaborative, humanistic interprofessional healthcare culture: a multi-site study
  17. Aging, care and dependency in multimorbidity: how relationships affect elderly women’s homecare and health service use
  18. Psychedelic medicines for existential distress associated with life-threatening illnesses
  19. The need for alternative solutions when caring for patients with language barriers
  20. Healthcare highways in your community
  21. How to think about pain with the whole person in mind
  22. Brief online mindfulness training for medical students: a randomized control study
  23. The use of portraiture to foster humanistic care
  24. Adaptive challenges of curriculum implementation for enhancing medical student resilience at Showa University in Japan
  25. Training interprofessional faculty in humanism and professionalism: a qualitative analysis of what is most important
  26. Where there's smoke: digital storytelling for healing
  27. Ngununggula: The story of a cancer care team for aboriginal people
  28. A gamified sleep intervention for veterans: an overview
  29. Reflections on a journey, doing unfinished business, and homage to Balfour Mount
  30. Harnessing the power of gate control: interventions for procedural pain and anxiety
  31. Queering whole person care in a pandemic

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