In General Health Care
In a more mainstream health orientated context the term can be used for the schemes involving patient empowerment, targeted at medical problems as substance abuse and diabetes, and in complementary medicine for such therapies as hypnosis or Alexander Technique where the therapist is an enabler rather than a paternalistic prescriber. Indeed Alexander Technique practitioners call themselves "teachers".
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