For Healthcare Professionals

• Pursue your professional ideals in the face of the challenges of our medical system.
• Develop a fresh, positive approach to your work with patients that is based upon an understanding of patients’ self-caretaking motives to engage your help.
• Develop healthcare professional-patient relationships that foster improved health care and positive interpersonal relationships.
• Experience the deep pleasure of helping a patient improve her or his self-caretaking choices.
• Understand patients’ confusing and negative interactions and withdrawal from the health care process.
• Create supportive and collaborative teams and partnerships with peers, co-workers, managed care providers, and business partners to enhance patient care.
• Avoid burnout and maintain a stable self-esteem and professional sense of self when working with challenging patients or in difficult work environments.