Difference in: | Disease-specific self-management intervention | Goal management intervention |
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Aim of intervention | Control and management of disease | Maximizing psychological health, social and physical functioning |
Focus / approach | Reductionist | Holistic |
Perspective | Patient-centered (disease-specific orientation) | Outsiders’ perspective (disease) | Person-focused (body systems are interrelated) | Insider’s perspective (illness) |
Content | Disease-specific | Multiple-related diseases | Not disease-specific |
Subject-matter | Predetermination of course content | Room for personal problems and difficulties |
Acquisition of | Specific competencies for predetermined assumed problems | General multi-deployable competencies |