Relational caring and presence theory in health care and social work : a care-ethical perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baart, Andries (Author), Timmerman, Guus (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Relational Caring and Presence Theory in Health Care and Social Work: A Care-Ethical Perspective
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures, tables and case fragments
  • About the authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Prologue: 'Somewhere between a scream and silence'
  • Case description
  • Some feature
  • Relationship first
  • Sharon, a mother
  • The professional as Sharon's spare self
  • Sharon in the lead
  • Her concerns, not just society's problems with her
  • Objections
  • Prologue: 'Somewhere between a scream and silence'
  • Case description
  • Some features
  • Relationship first
  • Sharon, a mother
  • The professional as Sharon's spare self
  • Sharon in the lead
  • Her concerns, not just society's problems with her
  • Objections
  • 1 Introduction
  • In search of good care
  • Puzzles of good care
  • Relational caring
  • Structure of the book and how to read it
  • Part I Presence, practice and theory
  • 2 Presence: the concept
  • Why presence?
  • Meaning, origin and relation to other concepts
  • Presence in scholarly literature
  • Missionary pastoral care
  • Nursing
  • Psychotherapy
  • Other domains
  • Telepresence: technologically mediated presence
  • Presencing: leading from the emerging future
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Presence: the practice
  • Qualitative research into neighbourhood chaplaincy in the 1990s
  • The practising of presence
  • Exposure as the beginning of presence
  • presence as the continuation of exposure
  • The working principles of presence
  • Practising presence and Tronto's caring process
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Presence: the theory as originally formulated and its reception
  • A theory of practice with five subtheories
  • Social redundancy
  • A typology of practices
  • Attunement to lifeworld and life course
  • The reception of the professionals
  • A critique of distantiation
  • Normative-reflective professionalism
  • The ninefold offer in response to social redundancy
  • Premises, underlying philosophy and its relation to care ethics
  • Appreciation and criticism
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Constructing knowledge (1): care ethics and the empirical turn
  • The turn to everyday life
  • Care ethics as a political, intradisciplinary ethics
  • Empirical research
  • Empirical research and ethical reflection
  • Empirical research and theory development
  • The connection: political phenomenology
  • Phenomenological, theory-oriented 'N=N case studies'
  • 6 Constructing knowledge (2): complex theorising and the practice turn
  • Evaluative social science
  • Constructing knowledge
  • Empirical material
  • Research results
  • Ethical reflection
  • Conceptual framework
  • Practices and practice theory
  • Complexities and complex theorising
  • Does practice theory suffice or do we need complexity theory?
  • 7 Presence: the presence-theoretical perspective on relational caring
  • Qualitative presence-theoretical research since 2001