Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2018

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

Katie Lynn Walkup ; Peter Cannon University of South Florida

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.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2018-01-02
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10.1080/10572252.2018.1401352
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