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Abuse related trauma has serious consequences on individuals' health and their state of well-being. Rates of violence against women have increased in the last two decades and consequently there has also been an increase in welfare dependency and experiences of social exclusion among women. This book uses a narrative inquiry and a framework of social inclusion and social exclusion to explore epiphanies, customs, routines, images, and everyday experiences of accessing community supports among eight women who experienced abuse-related trauma. The findings demonstrate connections between...

Despite recent well-known advancements in patient care in the medical fields, such as patient-centeredness and evidence-based medicine and practice, there is rather less known about their effects on the particulars of clinician-patient encounters. The emphasis in clinical encounters remains mostly on treatment and diagnosis and less on communicative competency or engagement for medical professionals. The concept of "patient-centeredness" was introduced by Balint (1957) over 5 decades ago and has been studied in health research for the past few decades. Patient-centeredness gained its...