Abstract
The first chapter summarizes the current knowledge of individualized interventions. With the support of available literature, the chapter describes to readers the terminological and material issues which are associated with individualized intervention.
It presents the typology of individualized interventions and, on the example of patient-focused intervention, shows the structural components that constitute this type of intervention. It characterizes the different forms of individualized intervention according to their content orientation.
In the last part, the work deals with the procedures for evaluating both health and cost effectiveness in this type of intervention. The second chapter summarizes the knowledge about the psychosocial climate of a health workplace, because it affects (whether positively or negatively) the efforts of health care professionals to individualize the care of their patients.
The second chapter first defines the basic terms used in the field and recalls the terminological and factual difficulties associated with them. It shows which procedures can be used to determine the culture and the psychosocial climate of a healthcare workplace.
The final section of the chapter illustrates how to intervene in order to change organizational culture and the climate of health care settings in favor of individualized care. The third chapter included in this monograph enriches the empirical exploration of individualized care that is not provided by professionals but laypeople in the home environment.
Through children's drawings, the authors search for the answer to the seemingly simple question asked by the children: What does it look like at your home when you are ill? The research offers basic typological views of children's drawing and its diagnostic use. It describes the specifics of treating an ill child in a home environment.
The core of the chapter, however, is the research report, which was carried out on a group of 311 Czech children aged 6-13, with an average age of 9.5 years. Each child's drawing on the subject: What it looks like at home when I'm ill was analyzed according to 95 original criteria.