Health Ecologies in Addiction Treatment: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and Conceptualizing Care

Katie Lynn Walkup, Peter Cannon

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Abstract

This study explored the introduction of an ecological care model into a women’s alcohol-and-other-drug treatment facility. When patients learned that their health resembled a network of factors including demographics, health experiences, and their own health literacy, they approached addiction as a problem that required complex solutions. The authors present a methodology derived from rhetoric of health and medicine scholarship and the medical humanities that may help patients improve mental health literacy and treatment outcomes.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalTechnical Communication Quarterly
StatePublished - Nov 8 2017

Keywords

  • mental health literacy
  • library and information science
  • medical libraries
  • health communication

Disciplines

  • Rhetoric
  • Library and Information Science

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