title: Individualizing patient care.
abstract: Patients are people as well as potential problems. Increasing our awareness of patients' lifestyle preferences, as well as developing more productive ways to interact with them, can promote growth along with recovery. The very least it can do is to facilitate working with patients and reduce the negative impact of stress of conflict in a very demanding profession.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Strickland
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arnn
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010551:Personality; D014152:Transactional Analysis