Healing Model Components
| Model Component | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Healing processes | |
| Valuing | |
| Nonjudgmental stance | Accepting every patient as a person of worth |
| Connecting | Finding personal resonance with each particular patient |
| Presence | Being mindfully present when with the patient |
| Full attention in encounter | Actively listening to patient’s story |
| Acceptance of illness experience | Recognizing importance of patients’ subjective experience of illness |
| Empathy | Connecting patient’s experience of suffering with healer’s life experience |
| Appreciating power | |
| Partnering | Engaging patients as partners in decisions about diagnosis and treatment |
| Education | Explanation of medical jargon and teaching patients self-management |
| Pushing | Using healer power for patient benefit |
| Abiding | |
| Interpersonal continuity | Ability for patient to see same healer over time, most of the time |
| Major health crises | Caring for patients during significant health events |
| Caring actions | Accumulation of actions that allow patients to know that the healer cares |
| Not giving up | Trying to reduce patient suffering even when science has nothing left to offer |
| Healer competencies | |
| Self-confidence | Projection of confidence in healer’s ability to heal |
| Emotional self management | Appropriately recognizing and managing emotions |
| Mindfulness | Ability to be aware in the moment of internal and external environment |
| Knowledge | Store of information about diagnosis and treatment |
| Relational outcomes | |
| Trust | Willingness to be vulnerable, feeling cared for, kowing promises will be kept |
| Hope | Belief that some positive future beyond present suffering is possible |
| Being known | Accumulated sense that the physician knows the patient as a person. |