Cultivating Compassion: How Digital Storytelling is Transforming Healthcare [Hardcover]

This book explores how digital storytelling can catalyze change in healthcare. Edited by the co-founders of the award-winning Patient Voices Programme, the authors discuss various applications for this technique; from using digital storytelling as a reflective process, to the use of digital stories in augmenting quantitative data. Through six main sections this second edition covers areas including healthcare education, patient engagement, quality improvement and the use of digital storytelling research. The chapters illuminate how digital storytelling can lead to greater humanity, understanding and, ultimately, compassion. This collection will appeal to those involved in delivering, managing or receiving healthcare and healthcare education and research, as well as people interested in digital storytelling and participatory media.Foreword to the second edition; Joe Lambert.
Foreword to the first edition; Angela Coulter.- Patient Voices: in celebration; Monica Clarke.
Preface; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.
Acknowledgements.
Section 1: A Tale of Two Decades.
Chapter 1: Introduction: the Journey Begins; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.
Chapter 2: Pilgrims Progress; Pip Hardy.
Chapter 3: To the Far Horizon; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.
Chapter 4: The Patient Voices Approach; Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner.
Section 2: Involvement, Impact and Improvement.
Chapter 5: Towards Compassionate Governance: the Impact of Patient Voices on NHS Leadership; Paul Stanton.
Chapter 6: Arthur and Co: Digital Stories about Living with Arthritis; Fiona ONeill.
Chapter 7: Safety Stories: Creating a Culture of Safety with Digital Stories; Cathy Jaynes.
Chapter 8: Working with Dignity and Respect: Improving Mental Health Services with Digital Storytelling; Carol Haigh, Patrick Cahoon and Tony Sumner.
Chapter 9: Breathe Easy: Digital Stories about COPD; Matthew Hodson.&l£"