VIDEO: How to incorporate expansive care into birth control discussions with patients

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When I talk a bit about what my care model is, I often use the word expansive to describe it. And that’s not easy to articulate or to explain what we really mean by expansive care. For me, it’s very simple though. Expansive care means that we allow the person who we are caring for to be whole. That we are not pulling out pieces of their body or pathologizing what they are presenting with and treating them as separate or other but making room for the whole person. So maybe you came in to talk about birth control, and during the course of the conversation we’re also talking about how you are managing child care, how you are functioning in your family and in your relationship, what those dynamics are having on your health and well-being. So expansiveness from my point of view, really is grounded in a whole person model of care and making that possible, both for the patient and also for the community that we’re serving.