From disability to human flourishing: how fourth wave psychotherapies can help to reimagine rehabilitation and medicine as a whole.

CONCLUSIONS: This flourishing model helps to reimagine the clinician-patient relationship, and the methods and entire purpose of rehabilitation medicine, and clinical medicine more broadly. The condition of blindness is presented as an illustrative case. Implications for rehabilitation Amidst vast medical and technological advances in diagnosis and treatment of disabilities, modern health systems often still approach rehabilitation of disability via species-typical standards of bodily or mental homeostasis as the standard of sound health, without considering the perspectives and experiences of flourishing that are unique to the individual who is suffering Psychological, social scientific, and religious traditions uniquely explore the inner experiences of individuals and their relationships, and can be used to help patients find individualized paths to recovery, healing, and flourishing Fourth-wave psychotherapies, utilizing existential, humanistic, and spiritual/religious philosophies, have resources clinicians can use to help patients aim beyond mere recovery, and allow for the possibility of "ultrabilitation" Attention to the psychological, social, cultural, existential, moral, spiritual, and religious dimensions of the patient in the context of their dynamic existence can promote ultrabilitation Dedicated focus on compassion, virtue, dignity, gratitude, contemplative wisdom, and transcendence can enable one to conceptualize flourishing in a way independent or complementary...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research