Amanda Wolf
Biographic Data
| ID | 123162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Wolf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolf |
| SIGNATURE | WOLF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6111-8377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Holding Complex Spaces Through Relational Work
Ethics and methods in disaster health research
Background: Disaster medicine operates in unstable, high-risk environments where operational, ethical, and contextual constraints frequently undermine traditional research designs. Although global health agendas increasingly emphasise person- and patient-centred care (PCC), these principles remain poorly articulated and rarely operationalised within disaster research. We aimed to examine how ethical tensions and methodological limitations shape t…
Results Targets in New Zealand
This chapter considers how a limited set of intermediate, numerically measured results targets worked in New Zealand to make significant gains relative to trend predictions in challenging domains of social policy. Target-based management featured a citizen-centric individualized focus, intensive data analysis, transparent communication of easily visualized indicators, and, in some cases, integration with an actuarial-based social-investment appro…
Older persons providing or not providing informal care to non-family peers - The experience of Health-related Quality of Life. Results from the Swedish Citizen Panel survey
In Scandinavia, older persons have managed to take care of themselves at home with the help of relatives, friends, non-family members and others’ [1]. However, previous research have focused on carers mainly providing formal care, and little is known on the impacts on the carers’ health when providing informal care among older persons [2]. In Sweden, almost half of the hours of caregiving are provided by older persons. In Public Care, to meet the…
Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health care
Introduction: While patient and public involvement (PPI) is increasingly required by policymakers and funding agencies, the vast amount of literature on this topic makes it difficult for stakeholders who are at the beginning of their journey to find guidance on conceptual frameworks, successful methods, and good examples for PPI in contexts/settings similar to their own. Although there are various conceptual frameworks available, especially for P…
Healthcare Professionals’ Perspective on Palliative Care in Intensive Care Settings
There is a growing need to integrate palliative care into intensive care units and to develop appropriate knowledge translation strategies. However, multiple challenges persist in attempts to achieve this objective. In this study, we aimed to explore intensive care professionals' perspectives on providing palliative and end-of-life care within an intensive care context. We used an interpretive description approach and interviewed 36 intensive car…
Causes, experiences and consequences of the impact of chronic heart failure on the person ́s social dimension
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a progressive and disabling condition that significantly impacts patients' daily lives. One of its effects is decreased opportunities to participate in social life, leading to reduced social interaction, loneliness, social isolation and lack of social support to continue with their daily life activities. This study aimed to explore the causes, experiences, and consequences of the impact of CHF on the social dimensio…
Classic Tool, New Opportunities
This study validated a Swedish translation of the Aging Semantic Differential Scale (ASD, 32-items) distributed online. Translation and back-translation were conducted. A convenience sample of nursing students completed the online questionnaire (N = 292) in spring 2020. Confirmatory factor analysis tested a validated four-factor structure consisting of 26 items, and the reliability and validity of the scale were tested. The Swedish version of the…
"Care is not care if it isn't person‐centred"
BACKGROUND: Person-Centred Care (PCC) has been the subject of growing interest in recent decades. Even though there is no conceptual consensus regarding PCC, many health-care institutions have implemented elements into their care. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the PCC topics presented by different stakeholder groups on Twitter and to explore the perceptions of PCC within the content of the tweets. METHOD: Tweets with mentions of PCC …
Epistemic injustices in clinical communication
The increasing popularity of the term 'person-centred' in the healthcare literature and a wide range of ideals and practices it implies point to the need for a more inclusive and holistic healthcare provision. A framework developed in a Swedish context suggested narrative elicitation as a key practice in transition to person-centred care. Initiating clinical communication by inviting people to tell their stories makes persistent yet often subtle …
The potential and pitfalls of narrative elicitation in person‐centred care
BACKGROUND: Revitalized interest in narrative has informed some recent models of patient and person-centred care. Yet, scarce attention has been paid to how narrative elicitation is actually used in person-centred care practice and in which ways it is incorporated into clinical routine. AIM: We aimed to identify facilitators and barriers for narrative elicitation and setting goals in a particular example of person-centred care practice (Universit…
Beyond the definition of formal care
This study explores care practices of older people outside formal care and without appealing to predefined relationships. We conducted interviews with 30 independent-living men and women aged 67-93 in three municipalities in Sweden. The interviews explored how they cared for themselves and other older people who were not family. Interviews were conducted between December 2017 and May 2018 and later transcribed and analysed using grounded theory. …
Tenacious assumptions of person-centred care? Exploring tensions and variations in practice
In recent decades, the ‘tenacious assumptions’ of biomedicine regarding the neutrality and universality of its knowledge claims have been significantly challenged by the growth of new collaborative and patient-focused models of Healthcare delivery. In this article, we discuss and critically reflect upon one such alternative Healthcare model developed at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care in Sweden. This centre uses three …
Elaboration of the Gothenburg model of person‐centred care
BACKGROUND: Person-centred care (PCC) is increasingly advocated as a new way of delivering health care, but there is little evidence that it is widely practised. The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) was set up in 2010 to develop and implement person-centred care in clinical practice on the basis of three routines. These routines are based on eliciting the patient's narrative to initiate a partnership; working the par…
Learning Transferable Lessons from Single Cases in Comparative Policy Analysis
Policy exemplars offer potential value to policy professionals seeking new ideas. Realizing that value typically assumes a learner who is both equipped with a well-specified policy or process objective and able to model causal connections to extract lessons. Yet there is a gap in explicating how, exactly, policy professionals find ideas worth pursuing. This article draws on the concepts of abduction and phronesis – broadly a flash of insight and …
Approaches to Transferable Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis and Practice
The five articles collected in this special issue build on current scholarship to examine under-explored facets of policy learning that improve or degrade its transferability, including career portability, multi-level collaboration, regional leadership, crisis learning, vicarious learning and single-case learning, aided by abduction and phronesis. The articles place these concepts within the context of existing theoretical frameworks and point to…
Ecosystem Services and Disservices for a Vulnerable Population
Between-case dialogue
Everyday practices at the medical ward
Modern hospital care should ostensibly be multi-professional and person-centred, yet it still seems to be driven primarily by a hegemonic, positivistic, biomedical agenda. This study aimed to describe the everyday practices of professionals and patients in a coronary care unit, and analyse how the routines, structures and physical design of the care environment influenced their actions and relationships. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted over …
Many Minds, Common Sense and Genetically Modified Food
Over 15 years, genetically modified (GM) food has gradually reached around the globe. Yet, each new development occasions controversy, and hence, leads to interest in strategies to engage people in searching for durable public bargains. Even-handed treatment of diverse views is crucial to good engagement processes, as is the avoidance of processes that merely reinforce fixed views. Ideally, views develop as people engage with others' reasoning ab…
Many Minds, Common Sense and Genetically Modified Food
Over 15 years, genetically modified (GM) food has gradually reached around the globe. Yet, each new development occasions controversy, and hence, leads to interest in strategies to engage people in searching for durable public bargains. Even-handed treatment of diverse views is crucial to good engagement processes, as is the avoidance of processes that merely reinforce fixed views. Ideally, views develop as people engage with others' reasoning ab…
Food selection changes under stress
Surveying Research on New Zealand Government
Description to be added
Everyday practices at the medical ward
Modern hospital care should ostensibly be multi-professional and person-centred, yet it still seems to be driven primarily by a hegemonic, positivistic, biomedical agenda. This study aimed to describe the everyday practices of professionals and patients in a coronary care unit, and analyse how the routines, structures and physical design of the care environment influenced their actions and relationships. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted over …
Epistemic injustices in clinical communication
The increasing popularity of the term 'person-centred' in the healthcare literature and a wide range of ideals and practices it implies point to the need for a more inclusive and holistic healthcare provision. A framework developed in a Swedish context suggested narrative elicitation as a key practice in transition to person-centred care. Initiating clinical communication by inviting people to tell their stories makes persistent yet often subtle …
Learning Transferable Lessons from Single Cases in Comparative Policy Analysis
Policy exemplars offer potential value to policy professionals seeking new ideas. Realizing that value typically assumes a learner who is both equipped with a well-specified policy or process objective and able to model causal connections to extract lessons. Yet there is a gap in explicating how, exactly, policy professionals find ideas worth pursuing. This article draws on the concepts of abduction and phronesis – broadly a flash of insight and …
Tenacious assumptions of person-centred care? Exploring tensions and variations in practice
In recent decades, the ‘tenacious assumptions’ of biomedicine regarding the neutrality and universality of its knowledge claims have been significantly challenged by the growth of new collaborative and patient-focused models of Healthcare delivery. In this article, we discuss and critically reflect upon one such alternative Healthcare model developed at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care in Sweden. This centre uses three …
Beyond the definition of formal care
This study explores care practices of older people outside formal care and without appealing to predefined relationships. We conducted interviews with 30 independent-living men and women aged 67-93 in three municipalities in Sweden. The interviews explored how they cared for themselves and other older people who were not family. Interviews were conducted between December 2017 and May 2018 and later transcribed and analysed using grounded theory. …
Approaches to Transferable Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis and Practice
The five articles collected in this special issue build on current scholarship to examine under-explored facets of policy learning that improve or degrade its transferability, including career portability, multi-level collaboration, regional leadership, crisis learning, vicarious learning and single-case learning, aided by abduction and phronesis. The articles place these concepts within the context of existing theoretical frameworks and point to…
Between-case dialogue
Surveying Research on New Zealand Government
Description to be added
Surveying Research on New Zealand Government
Description to be added
Food selection changes under stress
Many Minds, Common Sense and Genetically Modified Food
Over 15 years, genetically modified (GM) food has gradually reached around the globe. Yet, each new development occasions controversy, and hence, leads to interest in strategies to engage people in searching for durable public bargains. Even-handed treatment of diverse views is crucial to good engagement processes, as is the avoidance of processes that merely reinforce fixed views. Ideally, views develop as people engage with others' reasoning ab…
Many Minds, Common Sense and Genetically Modified Food
Over 15 years, genetically modified (GM) food has gradually reached around the globe. Yet, each new development occasions controversy, and hence, leads to interest in strategies to engage people in searching for durable public bargains. Even-handed treatment of diverse views is crucial to good engagement processes, as is the avoidance of processes that merely reinforce fixed views. Ideally, views develop as people engage with others' reasoning ab…
Everyday practices at the medical ward
Modern hospital care should ostensibly be multi-professional and person-centred, yet it still seems to be driven primarily by a hegemonic, positivistic, biomedical agenda. This study aimed to describe the everyday practices of professionals and patients in a coronary care unit, and analyse how the routines, structures and physical design of the care environment influenced their actions and relationships. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted over …
Between-case dialogue
Ecosystem Services and Disservices for a Vulnerable Population
Elaboration of the Gothenburg model of person‐centred care
BACKGROUND: Person-centred care (PCC) is increasingly advocated as a new way of delivering health care, but there is little evidence that it is widely practised. The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) was set up in 2010 to develop and implement person-centred care in clinical practice on the basis of three routines. These routines are based on eliciting the patient's narrative to initiate a partnership; working the par…
Learning Transferable Lessons from Single Cases in Comparative Policy Analysis
Policy exemplars offer potential value to policy professionals seeking new ideas. Realizing that value typically assumes a learner who is both equipped with a well-specified policy or process objective and able to model causal connections to extract lessons. Yet there is a gap in explicating how, exactly, policy professionals find ideas worth pursuing. This article draws on the concepts of abduction and phronesis – broadly a flash of insight and …
Approaches to Transferable Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis and Practice
The five articles collected in this special issue build on current scholarship to examine under-explored facets of policy learning that improve or degrade its transferability, including career portability, multi-level collaboration, regional leadership, crisis learning, vicarious learning and single-case learning, aided by abduction and phronesis. The articles place these concepts within the context of existing theoretical frameworks and point to…
Tenacious assumptions of person-centred care? Exploring tensions and variations in practice
In recent decades, the ‘tenacious assumptions’ of biomedicine regarding the neutrality and universality of its knowledge claims have been significantly challenged by the growth of new collaborative and patient-focused models of Healthcare delivery. In this article, we discuss and critically reflect upon one such alternative Healthcare model developed at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care in Sweden. This centre uses three …
Beyond the definition of formal care
This study explores care practices of older people outside formal care and without appealing to predefined relationships. We conducted interviews with 30 independent-living men and women aged 67-93 in three municipalities in Sweden. The interviews explored how they cared for themselves and other older people who were not family. Interviews were conducted between December 2017 and May 2018 and later transcribed and analysed using grounded theory. …
The potential and pitfalls of narrative elicitation in person‐centred care
BACKGROUND: Revitalized interest in narrative has informed some recent models of patient and person-centred care. Yet, scarce attention has been paid to how narrative elicitation is actually used in person-centred care practice and in which ways it is incorporated into clinical routine. AIM: We aimed to identify facilitators and barriers for narrative elicitation and setting goals in a particular example of person-centred care practice (Universit…
Classic Tool, New Opportunities
This study validated a Swedish translation of the Aging Semantic Differential Scale (ASD, 32-items) distributed online. Translation and back-translation were conducted. A convenience sample of nursing students completed the online questionnaire (N = 292) in spring 2020. Confirmatory factor analysis tested a validated four-factor structure consisting of 26 items, and the reliability and validity of the scale were tested. The Swedish version of the…
"Care is not care if it isn't person‐centred"
BACKGROUND: Person-Centred Care (PCC) has been the subject of growing interest in recent decades. Even though there is no conceptual consensus regarding PCC, many health-care institutions have implemented elements into their care. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the PCC topics presented by different stakeholder groups on Twitter and to explore the perceptions of PCC within the content of the tweets. METHOD: Tweets with mentions of PCC …
Epistemic injustices in clinical communication
The increasing popularity of the term 'person-centred' in the healthcare literature and a wide range of ideals and practices it implies point to the need for a more inclusive and holistic healthcare provision. A framework developed in a Swedish context suggested narrative elicitation as a key practice in transition to person-centred care. Initiating clinical communication by inviting people to tell their stories makes persistent yet often subtle …
Healthcare Professionals’ Perspective on Palliative Care in Intensive Care Settings
There is a growing need to integrate palliative care into intensive care units and to develop appropriate knowledge translation strategies. However, multiple challenges persist in attempts to achieve this objective. In this study, we aimed to explore intensive care professionals' perspectives on providing palliative and end-of-life care within an intensive care context. We used an interpretive description approach and interviewed 36 intensive car…
Causes, experiences and consequences of the impact of chronic heart failure on the person ́s social dimension
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a progressive and disabling condition that significantly impacts patients' daily lives. One of its effects is decreased opportunities to participate in social life, leading to reduced social interaction, loneliness, social isolation and lack of social support to continue with their daily life activities. This study aimed to explore the causes, experiences, and consequences of the impact of CHF on the social dimensio…
Results Targets in New Zealand
This chapter considers how a limited set of intermediate, numerically measured results targets worked in New Zealand to make significant gains relative to trend predictions in challenging domains of social policy. Target-based management featured a citizen-centric individualized focus, intensive data analysis, transparent communication of easily visualized indicators, and, in some cases, integration with an actuarial-based social-investment appro…
Older persons providing or not providing informal care to non-family peers - The experience of Health-related Quality of Life. Results from the Swedish Citizen Panel survey
In Scandinavia, older persons have managed to take care of themselves at home with the help of relatives, friends, non-family members and others’ [1]. However, previous research have focused on carers mainly providing formal care, and little is known on the impacts on the carers’ health when providing informal care among older persons [2]. In Sweden, almost half of the hours of caregiving are provided by older persons. In Public Care, to meet the…
Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health care
Introduction: While patient and public involvement (PPI) is increasingly required by policymakers and funding agencies, the vast amount of literature on this topic makes it difficult for stakeholders who are at the beginning of their journey to find guidance on conceptual frameworks, successful methods, and good examples for PPI in contexts/settings similar to their own. Although there are various conceptual frameworks available, especially for P…
Holding Complex Spaces Through Relational Work
Ethics and methods in disaster health research
Background: Disaster medicine operates in unstable, high-risk environments where operational, ethical, and contextual constraints frequently undermine traditional research designs. Although global health agendas increasingly emphasise person- and patient-centred care (PCC), these principles remain poorly articulated and rarely operationalised within disaster research. We aimed to examine how ethical tensions and methodological limitations shape t…
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