Guy A M Widdershoven
Biographic Data
| ID | 239336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy A M Widdershoven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Widdershoven |
| SIGNATURE | WIDDERSHOVEN G A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maastricht, Holland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes
In this research, we explore how competent nursing home residents in the Netherlands experience communication about euthanasia. Interviews were conducted with 15 nursing home residents. Three themes were found during data analysis: 1) The possibility to discuss euthanasia; 2) Interaction and 3) Anticipating the future. Whether or not euthanasia was discussed was influenced by the openness of the resident and the accessibility and openness of thei…
Diversity in Advance Care Planning and End-Of-Life Conversations: Discourses of Healthcare Professionals and Researchers
To meet the end-of-life needs of all patients, ongoing conversations about values and preferences regarding end-of-life care are essential. Aspects of social identity are associated with disparities in end-of-life care outcomes. Therefore, accounting for patient diversity in advance care planning and end-of-life conversations is important for equitable end-of-life practices. We conducted 16 semi-structured interviews to explore how Dutch healthca…
A resilience enhancing trauma‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study
In domestic violence (DV) shelters, offering psychosocial support services to mothers and children is vital. The program ‘Time for Tony the Turtle’ has been developed for mothers and children residing in DV shelters in the Netherlands. It aims to foster attachment and regulation skills, which can also prepare for trauma treatment if sought after later on. This qualitative study explores the experiences of mothers, children and professionals with …
Moral Dilemmas in Contact-Based Care: The Relevance of Moral Case Deliberation for Forensic Psychiatry
Currently, forensic psychiatry shows a shift from a control-based to a contact-based approach. Working from contact may, however, entail new moral questions and dilemmas. How to secure safety when focusing on contact? Does contact imply being physically close to the patient, or should one refrain from intimate relations? In order to help care professionals to deal with these moral issues, clinical ethics support can be useful. A specific approach…
The Active Recovery Triad Model: A New Approach in Dutch Long-Term Mental Health Care
Unlike developments in short-term clinical and community care, the recovery movement has not yet gained foothold in long-term mental health services. In the Netherlands, approximately 21,000 people are dependent on long-term mental health care and support. To date, these people have benefited little from recovery-oriented care, rather traditional problem-oriented care has remained the dominant approach. Based on the view that recovery is within r…
What does quality of life mean to older adults? A thematic synthesis
BACKGROUND: Consideration of older adults' quality of life (QoL) is becoming increasingly important in the evaluation, quality improvement and allocation of health and social care services. While numerous definitions and theories of QoL have been proposed, an overall synthesis of the perspective of older adults themselves is lacking. METHODS: Qualitative studies were identified in PubMed, Ebsco/Psycinfo and Ebsco/CINAHL, through a search on 28 No…
Challenges in shared decision making in advanced cancer care: A qualitative longitudinal observational and interview study
To reach SDM in daily practice, physicians should create awareness of all treatment options, including forgoing treatment, and communicate the risk of benefit and harm. Open and honest communication is needed in which patients' expectations and concerns are discussed. Through this, the difficult process of decision making in the last phase of life can be facilitated and the focus on the best care for the specific patient is strengthened
The discovery of deliberation. From ambiguity to appreciation through the learning process of doing Moral Case Deliberation in Dutch elderly care
Autonomy, dialogue, and practical rationality
What Does It Mean to Be a Patient Research Partner? An Ethnodrama
There is a trend in medical and health research to involve patients in the research process. A recent role is the patient acting as a research partner in a team of professionals. There are a few publications about these collaborations and the value of research partners. But is the research partner accepted as a credible knower? How can equality in the collaboration be reached? And how to handle tensions between the research partner's personal age…
Patients as Partners in Responsive Research: Methodological Notions for Collaborations in Mixed Research Teams
Patients are increasingly actively involved in research. We depart from an approach that understands patient participation as dialogue. This idea is grounded in hermeneutic philosophy and responsive research. Patients are engaged in research via dialogues with other stakeholders. New is the inclusion of patients as research partners. Several methodological notions underpin responsive research. In two health research agenda-setting processes (inte…
Evaluation and/as Social Relation
This article discusses the importance of social relations in evaluation. It focuses first on social relations among stakeholders in the evaluation setting. It is argued that social relations are crucial as an object of study, since they are integral to and partly constitutive of the quality and effectiveness of the programme being evaluated. Next, it focuses on the social relations between the evaluator and the stakeholders in the programme. Seve…
Conceptualizing autonomy in the context of chronic physical illness: Relating Philosophical Theories to Social Scientific Perspectives
The aim of this article is to conceptualize autonomy in the context of chronic physical illness. To this end, we compare and contrast a selection of contemporary philosophical theories of autonomy with social scientific perspectives on chronic illness, particularly models of disability and symbolic interactionism. The philosophical theories mainly depart from a positive conceptualization of autonomy, which involves actively shaping one's life and…
Dialogue on Dialogue
The text you are about to read is a dialogical text on dialogue and evaluation. It is a conversation between a group of scholars who have studied and published on the concept of dialogue and the value of dialogue for the practice of evaluation. The text is based on the field notes of a panel meeting held during a gathering of the European Evaluation Society to discuss this topic. It also contains an analysis of essays written in preparation for t…
Dialogue in Evaluation: A Hermeneutic Perspective
Dialogue is crucial to evaluation. Through dialogue, people are invited to develop new, shared ways of seeing and acting. From a hermeneutic perspective, dialogue implies consensus, based upon shared meanings and oriented towards reaching agreement. Dialogue also implies disagreement, in the form of a conflict between different, rival stories. The role of the evaluator is to enter into dialogue with people participating in practice. It is also to…
Improving Informed Consent by Implementing Shared Decisionmaking in Health Care
Guy A. M. Widdershoven, Frank W. S. M. Verheggen, Improving Informed Consent by Implementing Shared Decisionmaking in Health Care, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1999), pp. 1-5
Truth and Meaning in Art: Merleau-Ponty's Ambiguity
Etude de l'interrelation de la verite et de la signification en art dans la «Phenomenologie de la perception» et dans «Le visible et l'invisible» de Merleau-Ponty. Proposant une interpretation d'une strophe du poeme «Burnt Norton» de T. S. Eliot comme l'expression poetique de la relation de la verite et de la signification, l'A. montre que, contrairement a la clarte de Sartre, Merleau-Ponty apparait comme un philosophe de l'ambiguite, effacant le…
Hermeneutics and relativism: Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Habermas
This article presents three hermeneutic answers to the problem of relativism. The first answer is drawn from Wittgenstein's anthropological hermeneutics. Wittgenstein goes beyond relativism by making explicit universal anthropological categories which are specified differently in different cultures. The second answer is to be found in Gadamer's historical hermeneutics. By introducing the concepts of tradition and fusion of horizons, Gadamer evade…
Handlung und Struktur: Überlegungen zu einer handlungstheoretischen Gesellschaftstheorie
Evaluation and/as Social Relation
This article discusses the importance of social relations in evaluation. It focuses first on social relations among stakeholders in the evaluation setting. It is argued that social relations are crucial as an object of study, since they are integral to and partly constitutive of the quality and effectiveness of the programme being evaluated. Next, it focuses on the social relations between the evaluator and the stakeholders in the programme. Seve…
What Does It Mean to Be a Patient Research Partner? An Ethnodrama
There is a trend in medical and health research to involve patients in the research process. A recent role is the patient acting as a research partner in a team of professionals. There are a few publications about these collaborations and the value of research partners. But is the research partner accepted as a credible knower? How can equality in the collaboration be reached? And how to handle tensions between the research partner's personal age…
Dialogue on Dialogue
The text you are about to read is a dialogical text on dialogue and evaluation. It is a conversation between a group of scholars who have studied and published on the concept of dialogue and the value of dialogue for the practice of evaluation. The text is based on the field notes of a panel meeting held during a gathering of the European Evaluation Society to discuss this topic. It also contains an analysis of essays written in preparation for t…
Dialogue in Evaluation: A Hermeneutic Perspective
Dialogue is crucial to evaluation. Through dialogue, people are invited to develop new, shared ways of seeing and acting. From a hermeneutic perspective, dialogue implies consensus, based upon shared meanings and oriented towards reaching agreement. Dialogue also implies disagreement, in the form of a conflict between different, rival stories. The role of the evaluator is to enter into dialogue with people participating in practice. It is also to…
A resilience enhancing trauma‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study
In domestic violence (DV) shelters, offering psychosocial support services to mothers and children is vital. The program ‘Time for Tony the Turtle’ has been developed for mothers and children residing in DV shelters in the Netherlands. It aims to foster attachment and regulation skills, which can also prepare for trauma treatment if sought after later on. This qualitative study explores the experiences of mothers, children and professionals with …
Hermeneutics and relativism: Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Habermas
This article presents three hermeneutic answers to the problem of relativism. The first answer is drawn from Wittgenstein's anthropological hermeneutics. Wittgenstein goes beyond relativism by making explicit universal anthropological categories which are specified differently in different cultures. The second answer is to be found in Gadamer's historical hermeneutics. By introducing the concepts of tradition and fusion of horizons, Gadamer evade…
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes
In this research, we explore how competent nursing home residents in the Netherlands experience communication about euthanasia. Interviews were conducted with 15 nursing home residents. Three themes were found during data analysis: 1) The possibility to discuss euthanasia; 2) Interaction and 3) Anticipating the future. Whether or not euthanasia was discussed was influenced by the openness of the resident and the accessibility and openness of thei…
The discovery of deliberation. From ambiguity to appreciation through the learning process of doing Moral Case Deliberation in Dutch elderly care
Conceptualizing autonomy in the context of chronic physical illness: Relating Philosophical Theories to Social Scientific Perspectives
The aim of this article is to conceptualize autonomy in the context of chronic physical illness. To this end, we compare and contrast a selection of contemporary philosophical theories of autonomy with social scientific perspectives on chronic illness, particularly models of disability and symbolic interactionism. The philosophical theories mainly depart from a positive conceptualization of autonomy, which involves actively shaping one's life and…
Handlung und Struktur: Überlegungen zu einer handlungstheoretischen Gesellschaftstheorie
Handlung und Struktur: Überlegungen zu einer handlungstheoretischen Gesellschaftstheorie
Hermeneutics and relativism: Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Habermas
This article presents three hermeneutic answers to the problem of relativism. The first answer is drawn from Wittgenstein's anthropological hermeneutics. Wittgenstein goes beyond relativism by making explicit universal anthropological categories which are specified differently in different cultures. The second answer is to be found in Gadamer's historical hermeneutics. By introducing the concepts of tradition and fusion of horizons, Gadamer evade…
Improving Informed Consent by Implementing Shared Decisionmaking in Health Care
Guy A. M. Widdershoven, Frank W. S. M. Verheggen, Improving Informed Consent by Implementing Shared Decisionmaking in Health Care, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1999), pp. 1-5
Truth and Meaning in Art: Merleau-Ponty's Ambiguity
Etude de l'interrelation de la verite et de la signification en art dans la «Phenomenologie de la perception» et dans «Le visible et l'invisible» de Merleau-Ponty. Proposant une interpretation d'une strophe du poeme «Burnt Norton» de T. S. Eliot comme l'expression poetique de la relation de la verite et de la signification, l'A. montre que, contrairement a la clarte de Sartre, Merleau-Ponty apparait comme un philosophe de l'ambiguite, effacant le…
Dialogue on Dialogue
The text you are about to read is a dialogical text on dialogue and evaluation. It is a conversation between a group of scholars who have studied and published on the concept of dialogue and the value of dialogue for the practice of evaluation. The text is based on the field notes of a panel meeting held during a gathering of the European Evaluation Society to discuss this topic. It also contains an analysis of essays written in preparation for t…
Dialogue in Evaluation: A Hermeneutic Perspective
Dialogue is crucial to evaluation. Through dialogue, people are invited to develop new, shared ways of seeing and acting. From a hermeneutic perspective, dialogue implies consensus, based upon shared meanings and oriented towards reaching agreement. Dialogue also implies disagreement, in the form of a conflict between different, rival stories. The role of the evaluator is to enter into dialogue with people participating in practice. It is also to…
Evaluation and/as Social Relation
This article discusses the importance of social relations in evaluation. It focuses first on social relations among stakeholders in the evaluation setting. It is argued that social relations are crucial as an object of study, since they are integral to and partly constitutive of the quality and effectiveness of the programme being evaluated. Next, it focuses on the social relations between the evaluator and the stakeholders in the programme. Seve…
Conceptualizing autonomy in the context of chronic physical illness: Relating Philosophical Theories to Social Scientific Perspectives
The aim of this article is to conceptualize autonomy in the context of chronic physical illness. To this end, we compare and contrast a selection of contemporary philosophical theories of autonomy with social scientific perspectives on chronic illness, particularly models of disability and symbolic interactionism. The philosophical theories mainly depart from a positive conceptualization of autonomy, which involves actively shaping one's life and…
Patients as Partners in Responsive Research: Methodological Notions for Collaborations in Mixed Research Teams
Patients are increasingly actively involved in research. We depart from an approach that understands patient participation as dialogue. This idea is grounded in hermeneutic philosophy and responsive research. Patients are engaged in research via dialogues with other stakeholders. New is the inclusion of patients as research partners. Several methodological notions underpin responsive research. In two health research agenda-setting processes (inte…
What Does It Mean to Be a Patient Research Partner? An Ethnodrama
There is a trend in medical and health research to involve patients in the research process. A recent role is the patient acting as a research partner in a team of professionals. There are a few publications about these collaborations and the value of research partners. But is the research partner accepted as a credible knower? How can equality in the collaboration be reached? And how to handle tensions between the research partner's personal age…
Autonomy, dialogue, and practical rationality
The discovery of deliberation. From ambiguity to appreciation through the learning process of doing Moral Case Deliberation in Dutch elderly care
Challenges in shared decision making in advanced cancer care: A qualitative longitudinal observational and interview study
To reach SDM in daily practice, physicians should create awareness of all treatment options, including forgoing treatment, and communicate the risk of benefit and harm. Open and honest communication is needed in which patients' expectations and concerns are discussed. Through this, the difficult process of decision making in the last phase of life can be facilitated and the focus on the best care for the specific patient is strengthened
What does quality of life mean to older adults? A thematic synthesis
BACKGROUND: Consideration of older adults' quality of life (QoL) is becoming increasingly important in the evaluation, quality improvement and allocation of health and social care services. While numerous definitions and theories of QoL have been proposed, an overall synthesis of the perspective of older adults themselves is lacking. METHODS: Qualitative studies were identified in PubMed, Ebsco/Psycinfo and Ebsco/CINAHL, through a search on 28 No…
Moral Dilemmas in Contact-Based Care: The Relevance of Moral Case Deliberation for Forensic Psychiatry
Currently, forensic psychiatry shows a shift from a control-based to a contact-based approach. Working from contact may, however, entail new moral questions and dilemmas. How to secure safety when focusing on contact? Does contact imply being physically close to the patient, or should one refrain from intimate relations? In order to help care professionals to deal with these moral issues, clinical ethics support can be useful. A specific approach…
The Active Recovery Triad Model: A New Approach in Dutch Long-Term Mental Health Care
Unlike developments in short-term clinical and community care, the recovery movement has not yet gained foothold in long-term mental health services. In the Netherlands, approximately 21,000 people are dependent on long-term mental health care and support. To date, these people have benefited little from recovery-oriented care, rather traditional problem-oriented care has remained the dominant approach. Based on the view that recovery is within r…
Diversity in Advance Care Planning and End-Of-Life Conversations: Discourses of Healthcare Professionals and Researchers
To meet the end-of-life needs of all patients, ongoing conversations about values and preferences regarding end-of-life care are essential. Aspects of social identity are associated with disparities in end-of-life care outcomes. Therefore, accounting for patient diversity in advance care planning and end-of-life conversations is important for equitable end-of-life practices. We conducted 16 semi-structured interviews to explore how Dutch healthca…
A resilience enhancing trauma‐informed program for children and mothers in domestic violence shelters: A qualitative study
In domestic violence (DV) shelters, offering psychosocial support services to mothers and children is vital. The program ‘Time for Tony the Turtle’ has been developed for mothers and children residing in DV shelters in the Netherlands. It aims to foster attachment and regulation skills, which can also prepare for trauma treatment if sought after later on. This qualitative study explores the experiences of mothers, children and professionals with …
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes
In this research, we explore how competent nursing home residents in the Netherlands experience communication about euthanasia. Interviews were conducted with 15 nursing home residents. Three themes were found during data analysis: 1) The possibility to discuss euthanasia; 2) Interaction and 3) Anticipating the future. Whether or not euthanasia was discussed was influenced by the openness of the resident and the accessibility and openness of thei…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Nursing (6 works)