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The connection cure : the prescriptive power of movement, nature, art, service, and belonging / Julia Hotz.
"In this combination of diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery, journalist Julia Hotz helps us discover lasting and life-changing medicine in our own communities through the new practice of "social prescribing""-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668030332 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: viii, 324 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : a "social prescription" -- The movement prescription : Frank and Amanda -- The nature prescription : Heather and Nick -- The art prescription : Khuyen and Jonas -- The service prescription : Akeela and Marianne -- The belonging prescription : Victoria and Glenn -- The birth of social prescribing : the United Kingdom -- Social prescribing in big countries : Canada and Australia -- Social prescribing in ageing countries : Singapore and South Korea -- Social prescribing across a region : Portugal, the Netherlands, and the European Union -- Social prescribing in the land of pill prescribing : the United States of America -- Getting unstuck from our sadness through movement -- Restoring our attention through nature -- Creating a new story about our worries through art -- Lightening up through serving others -- Finding meaning by finding belonging -- Epilogue : the connection cure. |
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| Subject: | Environmental health. Holistic medicine. Mechanotherapy. Medicine and art. Mind and body. Social interaction > Health aspects. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 610 Hot | 31681010376507 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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"In this combination of diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery, journalist Julia Hotz helps us discover lasting and life-changing medicine in our own communities through the new practice of "social prescribing.""-- - Baker & Taylor
Investigating âsocial prescriptionsâ?â?referrals to community activities and resources instead of solely pharmaceutical prescriptions, a solutions-focused journalist tours to world, meeting the doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers who have started to flip the script as well as the patients who have benefited from this life-changing and lasting âmedicine.â - Simon and Schuster
*A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ*
*A HARVARD PUBLIC HEALTH MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2024*
In this combination of diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery, journalist Julia Hotz helps us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing.
Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, âWhatâs the matter with you?â But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking âWhat matters to you?â Instead of solely pharmaceutical prescriptions, they offer âsocial prescriptionsââreferrals to community activities and resources, like photography classes, gardening groups, and volunteering gigs.
The results speak for themselves. Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern worldâs most common ailmentsâdepression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. As health careâs de facto cycle of âdiagnose-treat-repeatâ reaches a breaking point, social prescribing has also proven to reduce patient wait times, lower hospitalization rates, save money, and reverse health worker burnout. And as a general sense of unwellness plagues more of us, social prescriptions can help us feel healthier than weâve felt in years.
As the first book on social prescribing, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. While touring the globe to investigate the spread of social prescribing to over thirty countries, Hotz meets people personifying its revolutionary potential: an aspiring novelist whose art workshop helps her cope with trauma symptoms and rediscover her joy; a policy researcher whose swimming course helps her taper off antidepressants and feel excited to wake up in the morning; an army vet whose phone conversations help him form his only true friendship; and dozens more. The success stories she finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.
