The certificate program in Narrative Healthcare at The Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative offers narrative competency training to physicians, nurses, social workers, mental health professionals, chaplains, social workers, academics and all those interested in the intersection between narrative and care. Lenoir-Rhyne University seeks to develop the narrative future of medicine, a field that proposes that effective care requires increased human engagement. Narrative training builds empathy, a skill required for effective care.
The certificate prepares practitioners with enhanced skills in listening to patient and client histories and stories and cultivates a more profound attention to the meaning of illness and struggle, beyond the diagnosis of it. Those who complete the narrative healthcare certificate program to supplement licensure and professional degrees will be prepared to expand the narrative culture within healthcare through program development, research, writing, supervision and training of colleagues and students.
The courses required for the certificate in narrative healthcare include:
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