ABSTRACT
Strategies are conceptual operations to reach goals informed by theory. They are expressed at different levels of abstraction but are always less behaviorally concrete than statements about tactics.
Strategies supporting decision making, behavior change, and assimilation of information (information interweave) are as follows:
1. First take care of your own reactive emotions, bodily sensations, beliefs, memories, and agendas before and during your interaction with patients and their relatives. This permits maintaining self-awareness and nonjudgmental curiosity, compassion, and empathy toward all aspects of your patient and their history, that can occur even in the context of cognitive disagreement.
