title: The healthy patient: empowering women in their encounters with the health care system.
abstract: Many women's expectancies when they assume the role of patient include the experiences of regression, helplessness, passivity and fear. This paper describes techniques for interrupting this negative set and for facilitating the development of a self-efficacious state in which the woman experiences herself as an active and informed participant in her encounters with medical personnel.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Daniel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000523:psychology*; D012803:Sick Role; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health