TY - JOUR
T1 - Claiming the illness experience
T2 - Using narrative to enhance theoretical understanding
AU - Mostert, Elphine
AU - Zacharkiewicz, Alicja
AU - Fossey, Ellie
PY - 1996/9
Y1 - 1996/9
N2 - The narrative of a young woman's experience of cancer is used to illustrate how strategies employed by health practitioners can affect clients' perceptions of the causes of illness and also the outcome of both present and future illness experiences. Clinical reasoning strategies of occupational therapists are introduced and links are made to the possible reasoning strategies employed by the clinicians in the narrative. The discussion centres around a client's health beliefs, her feelings of decreased control, her perceptions of the illness experience and the way narrative reasoning could have improved her experience.
AB - The narrative of a young woman's experience of cancer is used to illustrate how strategies employed by health practitioners can affect clients' perceptions of the causes of illness and also the outcome of both present and future illness experiences. Clinical reasoning strategies of occupational therapists are introduced and links are made to the possible reasoning strategies employed by the clinicians in the narrative. The discussion centres around a client's health beliefs, her feelings of decreased control, her perceptions of the illness experience and the way narrative reasoning could have improved her experience.
KW - Causal attribution theory
KW - Clinical reasoning
KW - Health locus of control
KW - Oncology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0030467219&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1996.tb01848.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1996.tb01848.x
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030467219
SN - 0045-0766
VL - 43
SP - 125
EP - 132
JO - Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
JF - Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
IS - 3-4
ER -
