RT Article
T1 An Existential Perspective of Body Beliefs and Health Assessment
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 45
IS 1
SP 130
OP 146
A1 Metzger, L. Kay
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2006
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/166886309X
AB Successful health assessments are ongoing and rely on a clinician/client interaction, which is influenced by both the client's and the clinician's beliefs about their bodies. These beliefs about the human body arise out of religious and cultural contexts. Theories often explain cultural context by comparison of differences and similarities between the client and the clinician and/or between the client and the dominant culture. This approach can carry a bias inherent in the comparison to dominant beliefs held by those with the most power and economic advantage. The author suggests an existential approach in which client and clinician bodies interact each as adept, autonomous individuals with a conglomerate of beliefs about body and health.
K1 body beliefs
K1 Culture
K1 Existential
K1 health assessment
K1 Music therapy
DO 10.1007/s10943-005-9008-3