Narrative-Informed Conceptual Modalities - Research has shown the benefits of wellness practices and the nourishment they bring to many aspects of health care and client care. A number of different approaches have been introduced in the quest to improve client-patient relationships, and in alternate use cases, promote increased communication and wellbeing for individuals, students, project teams and organization employee groups.

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• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Jon Kabat Zinn - group explorations and discussions designed to foster a progressive deepening of mindful awareness; mindfulness.
• Mindful Practice in Medicine, Ron Epstein - conducting experiential workshops to help physicians and other health professionals thrive. Programs are designed to help reduce burnout, restore joy and well-being, build community, and promote excellence in healthcare.
• Narrative Art Therapy- uses the creative process of making art that tells a story used to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of the client.
• Narrative-Based Medicine, Trish Greenhalgh, Brian Hurwitz - working in combination with individual cultural perspectives, and evidence based clinical research, the practice of creating mutually woven stories that better inform understanding and care decisions.
• Narrative Exposure Therapy, developed by Maggie Schauer, Frank Neuner, and Thomas Elbert. This treatment helps individuals establish a coherent life narrative in which to contextualize traumatic experiences. It is known for its use in group treatment with refugees.
• Narrative Medicine, Rita Charon - uses close reading skills developed through analyzing literature and other creative texts, while developing listening skills. The practice method of attention, representation and affiliation promotes “narrative competence,” which is used to improve and deepen intrapersonal and interpersonal understanding and communication.
• Narrative Primary Care, John Launer - provides both a theoretical framework and practical skills for dealing with individual consultations, family work, clinical supervision and teamwork. Offers a comprehensive approach to the whole range of work in primary care.
• Narrative Therapy Psychological Counseling Method Modalities, Michael White founder, along with David Epston - seeks collaborative positioning of patient with the therapist; tracing the history of the problem, exploring the effects of the problem, situating the problem in context, externalizing, deconstructing, and enabling the patient to reauthor more postive perspectives condusive to generating improved outcomes.
• Patient-Centered Care, Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, Thomas Freeman, Ian McWhinney, W. Wayne Weston Active - care collaboration, shared decision making, family involvement, timely implementations.
• Relationship-Centered Care, RM Frankel, Penny Williamson, Andy Suckman – founded on 4 principles: Personhood of participant, importance of affect and emotion, all relationships occur in the context of reciprocal influence, and that the formation of relationships are morally valuable.
• Shared Decision Making - patient centered care, encourages the clinician(s) and patient collaboratively to work together to make evidenced based, informed health decisions.