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Life Coaching: A Method for Enhancing Patients’ Emancipation

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• Volume 2,Issue 6, Nov. 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Active Citizenship, Emancipation, Life Coaching, Self-Determination, Vulnerable Groups

Authors:

• Traina, Dr. Ivan

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

2

Number:

6

Pages:

472-476

Month:

November

BibTex:

@article{448, author = "Dr. Ivan Traina", abstract = "This paper presents a case study conducted as part of a PhD Thesis on testing Life Coaching as a learning method for fostering emancipation in vulnerable groups (adult patients), using a participatory-action-research approach. The lessons learnt provides empirical insights on the implications for the implementation of non-medical methods that could allow a shift from a situation of passivity (patient care) to a new one of participation to the definition of new objectives or projects of life (active citizenship). This paper was conceived to fulfil an identified need to study and test innovative and non-medical methods for fostering adult patients’ self-determination. ", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Active Citizenship, Emancipation, Life Coaching, Self-Determination, Vulnerable Groups", month = "November", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "6", pages = "472-476", title = "{L}ife {C}oaching: {A} {M}ethod for {E}nhancing {P}atients’ {E}mancipati", volume = "2", year = "2015", }

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

This paper presents a case study conducted as part of a PhD Thesis on testing Life Coaching as a learning method for fostering emancipation in vulnerable groups (adult patients), using a participatory-action-research approach. The lessons learnt provides empirical insights on the implications for the implementation of non-medical methods that could allow a shift from a situation of passivity (patient care) to a new one of participation to the definition of new objectives or projects of life (active citizenship). This paper was conceived to fulfil an identified need to study and test innovative and non-medical methods for fostering adult patients’ self-determination.

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