Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient : : A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter.

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.
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Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient
  • Preface
  • The Story of CauseHealth
  • Reference
  • Abbreviations
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Contributors to Part II
  • Editors and Contributors to Part I
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • Part I: Philosophical Framework
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Is Philosophy Relevant for Clinical Practice?
  • Chapter 2: Dispositions and the Unique Patient
  • 2.1 The Similar and the Unique
  • 2.2 Empiricism: Causality Requires Repeated Observations
  • 2.3 Dispositionalism: Causality Happens in the Single Case
  • 2.3.1 Causes Are Dispositions
  • 2.3.2 Causes Are Intrinsic
  • 2.3.3 Causality Is Complex
  • 2.3.4 Causality Is Context-Sensitive
  • 2.3.5 Modelling Causality
  • 2.3.6 Two Types of Causal Interference
  • 2.3.7 Degree of Tendency
  • 2.3.8 Threshold Effects and Tipping Points
  • 2.4 Philosophy of Causality Influences Scientific Methods
  • 2.5 Practical Implications for the Clinic
  • 2.5.1 Causal Evidence Comes from the Patient
  • 2.5.2 There Is No Standard or Average Patient
  • 2.5.3 Unexpected Outcomes Are Valuable Causal Lessons
  • 2.6 To Sum Up…
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 3: Probability for the Clinical Encounter
  • 3.1 Uncertainty and Probability in the Single Case
  • 3.2 Probability from Statistics: Frequentism
  • 3.2.1 Frequentism and Evidence Based Approaches
  • 3.2.2 Randomisation, Inclusion Criteria and Exclusion Criteria in Population Trials
  • 3.2.3 Internal and External Validity of Causal Claims from Randomised Controlled Trials
  • 3.3 Probability as Degree of Belief: Subjective Credence
  • 3.3.1 Updating Belief
  • 3.3.2 Understanding the Basic Bayesian Formula
  • 3.3.3 Uncertainty as Lack of Knowledge
  • 3.4 Probabilities as Dispositional and Intrinsic: Propensities.
  • 3.4.1 Individual Propensities Are Not Always Seen Through Frequencies
  • 3.4.2 Propensities as Qualities
  • 3.4.3 Propensities and Prediction
  • 3.5 Propensities and the Clinic
  • 3.5.1 The Importance of Local Knowledge
  • 3.5.2 Person Centered Clinical Analysis
  • 3.5.3 Focus on Theories of Causal Mechanism
  • 3.5.4 Multidisciplinarity and Networking
  • 3.5.5 The Potential of Clinical Experience for Advancing Medical Knowledge
  • 3.5.6 What Does N = 1 Mean, Within the CauseHealth Project?
  • 3.6 To Sum Up…
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 4: When a Cause Cannot Be Found
  • 4.1 The Clinical Challenge of Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
  • 4.2 The Problem of Uniqueness
  • 4.2.1 The Patient Context: What Was There Before
  • 4.2.2 Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Causal Inquiry
  • 4.2.3 Dispositional Take On Perfect Regularity: Is It Causality or Something Else Entirely?
  • 4.3 An Important Lesson from Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
  • 4.3.1 We Need Many Methods to Establish Causality
  • 4.4 Patient Narratives as a Way Forward
  • 4.5 Using Patient Narratives
  • 4.5.1 Narrative as a Tool for Causality Assessment
  • 4.5.2 Narrative as a Tool for Understanding the Causal Story
  • 4.5.3 Narrative as a Collaborative Tool in Healthcare
  • 4.6 To Sum Up…
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Complexity, Reductionism and the Biomedical Model
  • 5.1 The Biomedical Model of Illness
  • 5.1.1 Reductionism in Medicine and Science
  • 5.1.2 Critical Reflections Concerning the Biomedical Model
  • 5.2 The Bio-psychosocial Model of Illness
  • 5.2.1 Bottom Up and Top Down Causality in Medical Research: Two Views on Cancer Aetiology
  • 5.3 The CauseHealth Approach: Change Must Start from Ontology
  • 5.4 What Is Causal Complexity and How Should It Be Investigated?
  • 5.4.1 Mereological Composition
  • 5.4.2 Genuine Complexity and Emergence.
  • 5.4.3 Practice Is Motivated by Ontological Bias
  • 5.5 We Need an Ecological Turn in Medicine and Healthcare
  • 5.5.1 Whole Person Healthcare in Practice
  • 5.6 To Sum Up…
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 6: The Guidelines Challenge
  • 6.1 The Tension Within
  • 6.1.1 Evidence Based Medicine and the Rise of Guidelines
  • 6.1.2 Guidelines in Practice
  • 6.2 Guidelines and Tramlines
  • 6.2.1 Guidelines and Evidence Based Policy
  • 6.3 The Ontology of Guidelines
  • 6.3.1 Logically Speaking, Guidelines Cannot Be Rules
  • 6.3.2 What Does This Mean for Guidelines in Practice?
  • 6.4 The Epistemology of Guidelines
  • 6.4.1 Transparency and the Tension Between Flexibility and Standardization
  • 6.4.2 When Should the Particular Be Engaged?
  • 6.5 Guidelines in the Dispositionalist Way
  • 6.5.1 So, What Should We Do with Guidelines?
  • 6.6 To Sum Up…
  • References and Further Readings
  • Part II: Application to the Clinic
  • Chapter 7: The Complexity of Persistent Pain - A Patient's Perspective
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 The Injury I Haven't Recovered From
  • 7.3 Being Treated Within a Narrow View of Pain
  • 7.4 Starting to Learn About the Complexity of Pain
  • 7.5 Learning About Causality and Dispositionalism
  • 7.6 A Smallholding Analogy
  • 7.7 The Analogy Explained
  • 7.8 Combining Causality, Dispositionalism and Predictive Processing
  • 7.9 A Simple Understanding of My Pain
  • 7.10 How Has Understanding Pain in This Way Helped Me?
  • 7.11 The Complexity of Persistent Pain
  • Chapter 8: Above and Beyond Statistical Evidence. Why Stories Matter for Clinical Decisions and Shared Decision Making
  • 8.1 Musculoskeletal Disability
  • 8.2 Evidence Based Healthcare: The Heart Is in the Right Place, But…
  • 8.3 Therapeutic Alliance: A Dispositional View
  • 8.4 Bringing the Totality of Evidence Together
  • References and Further Readings.
  • Chapter 9: Causality and Dispositionality in Medical Practice
  • 9.1 Some Background
  • 9.2 Considering Causality
  • 9.3 Diagnosis and Decisions
  • 9.4 Overview of Important Dispositional Insights in Clinical Care
  • 9.5 Conclusion
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 10: Lessons on Causality from Clinical Encounters with Severely Obese Patients
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 A Framework for the Clinical Encounter
  • 10.2.1 The Person in the Role of the Patient - What Are the Goals of Healthcare?
  • 10.2.2 A Group Seminar Before the Clinical Encounter: Setting the Stage
  • 10.2.3 The Consultant's Understanding in Advance of the Clinical Encounter
  • 10.2.4 The Clinical Encounter
  • 10.2.5 As a Child, Did You Feel Safe at Home?
  • 10.2.6 The Consultant's and Patient's Understanding After the Clinical Encounter
  • 10.3 Case Stories
  • 10.3.1 Olav Olsen, a Severely Obese Man
  • 10.3.2 Alma Almas, a Severely Obese Woman
  • 10.3.3 Ebba Eskil, a Severely Obese and Depressed Woman
  • 10.4 Where Do We Go from Here?
  • 10.4.1 "What the Hell Is Going on Here?"
  • 10.4.2 Is This How the System Works?
  • 10.5 Outlook
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 11: Reflections on the Clinician's Role in the Clinical Encounter
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Reflections on How Values Affect Clinical Encounters
  • 11.3 The Work I Did with Marie
  • 11.3.1 Presentation of the Client
  • 11.3.2 Presenting Problems
  • 11.3.3 Diagnosis
  • 11.3.4 The I-Thou Process
  • 11.3.5 Key Episode 1
  • 11.3.6 Key Episode 2
  • 11.4 Reflections
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 12: The Relevance of Dispositionalism for Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Research
  • 12.1 Introductory Preface
  • 12.2 Misleading Statement on Evidence Based Psychological Practice
  • 12.3 Questioning the Medical Model
  • 12.4 The Challenge from Dodo-Birds and Meaning-Makers.
  • 12.5 The Philosophical Bias of the Medical Model
  • 12.6 Dodo-Birds Must Take the Bull by Its Horns
  • 12.7 Meaning-Makers Must Target the Right Enemy
  • 12.8 Humeanism Must Be Replaced by Dispositionalism
  • 12.9 Implications for Psychotherapy Research
  • 12.10 Implications for Psychotherapy
  • 12.11 As Statistics Don't Get It, Try Getting the Vectors Right
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 13: Causal Dispositionalism and Evidence Based Healthcare
  • 13.1 Complexity in Practice
  • 13.2 Evidential Hierarchies Expose Causal Theory
  • 13.3 A Dispositionalist Response
  • 13.3.1 Explain the Causal Role of Content from Particular Research Methods
  • 13.3.2 Motivate a Viable Epistemology
  • 13.3.3 Account for Causal Processes in Individual Level Clinical Decision Making
  • 13.3.4 Help Understand and Assess Additional Premises and Assumptions Needed to Bridge the Inferential Gap Between Population Level Evidence and Clinical Decisions
  • 13.4 Conclusion
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 14: The Practice of Whole Person-Centred Healthcare
  • 14.1 A Woman with Skin Disease
  • 14.2 A Professional Evolution
  • 14.3 Somatic Metaphors
  • 14.4 Whole Persons in the Clinic
  • 14.5 Reactions from Colleagues
  • 14.6 Dualist Psychotherapy
  • 14.7 Publications
  • 14.8 Human Infant Development
  • 14.9 Mindbody Healthcare
  • 14.10 I Was Conflicted
  • 14.11 Being Looked at or Being Seen?
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 15: A Broken Child - A Diseased Woman
  • 15.1 Cecily Cramer
  • 15.2 Crisis Onset
  • 15.3 Two In-Patient Psychiatric Hospital Ward Admissions
  • 15.4 Follow-Up Care
  • 15.5 Reflections
  • 15.5.1 Recently Acquired Knowledge
  • 15.5.2 Updating the Concept of Causality
  • References and Further Readings
  • Chapter 16: Conclusion: CauseHealth Recommendations for Making Causal Evidence Clinically Relevant and Informed.
  • 16.1 Practical Recommendations for Change.