"It's obvious the No 1 issue is housing," says a senior field officer for the Health and Engagement Assistance in the Long Grass (Heal) programme, Vaughan Williams.
Instead they activate a latent, pre-existing wound-healing programme that is encoded in the normal genome, which they then use as the strategy for constructing their own stroma" [ 6].
Handling paperwork was her job both at the church hospital at Nyankunde, where she and Jo worked for 19 years, and at HEAL Africa, where "programme manager" was the unexciting title she gave herself.
"They never show healed photos on the programme.
The present study clearly indicates that according to the patients' experiences, a psychoeducative programme may facilitate healing processes.
The analysis of healing processes experienced during the programme participation resulted in six main categories i.e. "Self-awareness", "Setting boundaries", "Feelings and self-mobilisation", "Self-regulation", "Self-reflexivity" and "Motivation and Self-improvement".
13 Physical therapists use this knowledge about tissue healing to construct an exercise programme.
In the treatment of eating disorders, little is know about the role and impact of psychoeducative programmes and whether patients experience such programmes as helpful in their healing processes.
