Termination of the Patient-Practitioner Relationship

Divorce, Patient Style

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2545136
AutoresDavid E Hayes-Bautista (0000-0001-8363-9034, autor de correspondencia)
Año1976
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas12
Fecha de publicación1976-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Health and Social Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1465 • E-ISSN: 2150-6000
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2136463
PMID1270781
OpenAlexW2330255348
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas8

The termination of the relationship is considered as the final stage in the career of a social relationship. Theoretical development of this stage is given by analyzing the experiences of urban Chicano patients with termination of the relationship between patient and practitioner. Termination may be patient originated, practitioner originated, or the result of overriding conditions. Each termination possesses combinations of the properties of desirability (sought-unsought), duration (temporary-permanent), closure (open ended-closed), and anticipation (anticipated-unanticipated). Patient originated termination comes about as a result of absolutte practitioner inadequacy, change in practitioner's competency, andlor comparison with other practitioner's competency. Practitioner originated termination is due to the patient's unwillingness to comply with the practitioner's regimen, or due to the practitioner's self-recognized inability to handle an episode. Termination itself may be achieved by tactics of mutual withdrawal, confrontation, the fade-out, the hand-off, and the put-off. The party being terminated may resort to prolonging tactics, the practitioner using overwhelming knowledge, the medical threat and personal tactics, the paient using threat of confrontation and personal tactics. Overriding conditions may frustrate the termination, or make it inevitable. Some hypotheses resulting from the study are offered, but not tested

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