title: Using DAVE as a model to go beyond treatment compliance with persons receiving renal replacement therapy.
abstract: DAVE is an acronym for Dialogue, Accept, Validate, and Enact conceptualized for the purpose of helping nephrology social workers assist persons with End-Stage Renal Disease take an active role in making treatment decisions, especially the decision to comply with a treatment regimen. As a model, DAVE is a summation of contemporary social work practice including views on empowerment, the Strengths Perspective, and the Problem-Solving Process. DAVE attunes the nephrology social worker and the dialysis recipient to an attitude of mutual trust, respect, and collaboration essential to helping dialysis recipients make important treatment decisions.
authors.affiliation: Social Work Department, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Bordelon
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*; D010358:Patient Participation; D011340:Problem Solving; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000523:psychology*; D012947:Social Work / Q000379:methods*