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CCIM - Exam Questions And Answers 100%
Guaranteed Pass. Long Answers (4-5 min)
Explain what it means for compassionate caring to be at the center of how we conceive of
healthcare? - Answer✔First, when compassionate care is at the center of how we conceive of
healthcare, the motivation for whatever we do is stated explicitly. Many enter into the helping
professions with a somewhat overly idealistic vision of what it will entail, and don't believe that
they will ever fall into burnout or want to do medicine for any reason other than to help people.
However, as our career progresses we begin to distinguish between curing and caring, being
competent or caring, problem-focused or patient centered, and focusing on financial matters than
the altruistic mission of the organization. In turmoil, those without compassion will turn to
emotional detachment. Healthcare centered on compassionate caring explicitly means that your
motivation to enter and continue in a helping role is rooted in compassionate caring. Everything
you do and everything you are is for the good of your patients. Your motivation is the good of
the patients.
Second, when compassionate care is at the center of compassionate caring, According to
Defensivemedicine.com, defensive medicine adds $850 billion to the annual healthcare costs.
What does it mean to be compassionately caring in healthcare? - Answer✔CC is the motivating
force energizing the optimum execution of clinical judgement and clinical action; it is an
emotional and cognitive state that one enters in doing patient care
It is not just feeling concern for our patient's problem and expressing that concern; it is how we
demonstrate that concern by how we apply what we know for this patient
Compassion is:
Noticing suffering
Being empathically resonant with that person
Desiring to relieve that person's suffering
Acting to attempt to alleviate that suffering
It is a motivational process that generates a particular pattern in the brain that aligns our
attention, cognition, and emotions in a compassionate response to the patient
Compassionate caring:
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Caring - the general attitude that the clinician has in all interactions
Compassionate - the clinician's responsiveness to pain and suffering as it arises
Compassionate caring is the focused channeling of our competence in response to patient
suffering, not simply empathic resonance and expressions of concern
Describe how attachment theory is relevant to patient-physician dynamics. -
Answer✔Attachment is a selective social or emotional bond and is a major component of how
we define human love
When patients are in need, they seek help, and help comes by attaching to someone who can
provide it
If the patient feels safe with the clinician, he or she attaches for a period of time, and so does the
clinician to the patient
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Attachment Style
Innate parameters of the attachment style are "gradually shaped and altered by social experiences
with attachment figures, resulting eventually in individual differences in attachment style"
It is impossible for humans to raise themselves
As humans grow, they become interdependent
Each one has an internalized and unconscious representation of one's experiences with a
significant attachment style
Influences person's later interactions
Over the course of infancy, childhood, and adolescence, these themes of internalized experience
become an attachment style
Secure attachment style - Secure caregivers
Positive view of oneself and of others
Positive experiences on relying on others and comfortable with closeness in relationships
Comfortable with being close to others and have an interdependent view of relationships, tend to
be more motivated to compassionate to others who are suffering
Can handle temporary dependence and distress of a person in need
Confidence and control in being able to respond effectively
Preoccupied attachment style - Insecure caregivers
Positive view of others but negative view of oneself
Trying to impress others, dependent on acceptance
Tend to feel less empathy and compassion
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CCIM - Exam Questions And Answers 100%
Guaranteed Pass. Long Answers (4-5 min)
Explain what it means for compassionate caring to be at the center of how we conceive of
healthcare? - Answer✔First, when compassionate care is at the center of how we conceive of
healthcare, the motivation for whatever we do is stated explicitly. Many enter into the helping
professions with a somewhat overly idealistic vision of what it will entail, and don't believe that
they will ever fall into burnout or want to do medicine for any reason other than to help people.
However, as our career progresses we begin to distinguish between curing and caring, being
competent or caring, problem-focused or patient centered, and focusing on financial matters than
the altruistic mission of the organization. In turmoil, those without compassion will turn to
emotional detachment. Healthcare centered on compassionate caring explicitly means that your
motivation to enter and continue in a helping role is rooted in compassionate caring. Everything
you do and everything you are is for the good of your patients. Your motivation is the good of
the patients.
Second, when compassionate care is at the center of compassionate caring, According to
Defensivemedicine.com, defensive medicine adds $850 billion to the annual healthcare costs.
What does it mean to be compassionately caring in healthcare? - Answer✔CC is the motivating
force energizing the optimum execution of clinical judgement and clinical action; it is an
emotional and cognitive state that one enters in doing patient care
It is not just feeling concern for our patient's problem and expressing that concern; it is how we
demonstrate that concern by how we apply what we know for this patient
Compassion is:
Noticing suffering
Being empathically resonant with that person
Desiring to relieve that person's suffering
Acting to attempt to alleviate that suffering
It is a motivational process that generates a particular pattern in the brain that aligns our
attention, cognition, and emotions in a compassionate response to the patient
Compassionate caring:
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Caring - the general attitude that the clinician has in all interactions
Compassionate - the clinician's responsiveness to pain and suffering as it arises
Compassionate caring is the focused channeling of our competence in response to patient
suffering, not simply empathic resonance and expressions of concern
Describe how attachment theory is relevant to patient-physician dynamics. -
Answer✔Attachment is a selective social or emotional bond and is a major component of how
we define human love
When patients are in need, they seek help, and help comes by attaching to someone who can
provide it
If the patient feels safe with the clinician, he or she attaches for a period of time, and so does the
clinician to the patient
Page 226-238
Attachment Style
Innate parameters of the attachment style are "gradually shaped and altered by social experiences
with attachment figures, resulting eventually in individual differences in attachment style"
It is impossible for humans to raise themselves
As humans grow, they become interdependent
Each one has an internalized and unconscious representation of one's experiences with a
significant attachment style
Influences person's later interactions
Over the course of infancy, childhood, and adolescence, these themes of internalized experience
become an attachment style
Secure attachment style - Secure caregivers
Positive view of oneself and of others
Positive experiences on relying on others and comfortable with closeness in relationships
Comfortable with being close to others and have an interdependent view of relationships, tend to
be more motivated to compassionate to others who are suffering
Can handle temporary dependence and distress of a person in need
Confidence and control in being able to respond effectively
Preoccupied attachment style - Insecure caregivers
Positive view of others but negative view of oneself
Trying to impress others, dependent on acceptance
Tend to feel less empathy and compassion
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