Freire's work centers on the idea that education should be a dialogue between teacher and learner in which they together identify barriers and supports to success. Many women set goals around their children. They want to live to see them graduate, start preschool, or achieve some other milestone. Families can also be a barrier, Williams says, remembering an older man who hid his pills in the basement rather than let his family know about the virus. Ideally, if a patient's family is aware of the illness, they can offer valuable support, Williams says, but disclosure is not always possible.
People do lose their social support.
It's getting better, but it does still happen. But would help him or her decide on the best course of action. The intervention differs from straight education in that it is not a top-down dissemination of information, but a partnership. Williams and her associates have found that traditional education is not always effective. Danvers said that often, even when the physician is an excellent patient educator, misunderstandings arise.