Making the Patient Your Partner
eBook - PDF

Making the Patient Your Partner

Communication Skills for Doctors and Other Caregivers

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Making the Patient Your Partner

Communication Skills for Doctors and Other Caregivers

About this book

Health professionals need to learn the communication skills that will create collaborative and mutually satisfying relationships with patients. The failure of doctors to relate effectively to patients results in noncompliance, malpractice suits, longer stays in hospitals and other negative outcomes. Interpersonal skills can be easily learned by studying the techniques described by Gordon and Edwards. Using cases, interviews, dialogues, and vignettes, the authors provide effective models or blueprints for health professionals to follow. Gordon is a psychologist who has pioneered internationally recognized effectiveness training programs widely used by teachers, parents, salesmen, managers, and other professionals. He has published six books that have sold over five million copies in 17 languages. In this work, he has enlisted the expertise of Edwards, a highly respected medical doctor and educator, to provide the necessary insider's view of the health profession. Together they make a convincing case for doctors to develop closer and more collaborative relationships with patients.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
1997
Print ISBN
9780865692732
eBook ISBN
9780313390517
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
General Health

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Dissatisfaction with Doctor-Patient Relationships
  6. Chapter 2 A Collaborative Model for Relating to Patients
  7. Chapter 3 Empathic Listening: Applications and Benefits
  8. Chapter 4 Roadblocks to Patient Communication
  9. Chapter 5 Self-Disclosure Skills for Health Care Professionals
  10. Chapter 6 Dealing Effectively with Conflicts
  11. Chapter 7 Helping Patients Cope with an Adverse Diagnosis
  12. Chapter 8 Special Problems Dealing with AIDS Patients
  13. Chapter 9 Helping Patients Maintain Hope
  14. Chapter 10 Helping Patients Find Meaning
  15. Chapter 11 Helping the Terminal Patient
  16. Chapter 12 Other Applications of Interpersonal Skills
  17. Appendix: Sources of Information about Communication Skills Training for Health Professionals
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index