
- 338 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The Medical Interview by Drs. Steven A. Cole and Julian Bird equips you to communicate effectively with your patients so you can provide optimal care! This best-selling, widely adopted resource presents a practical, systematic approach to honing your basic interviewing skills and managing common challenging communicating situations. Its Three-Function Approach – "Build the Relationship, " "Assess and Understand, " and Collaborative Management" offers straightforward tasks, behaviors, and skills that can be easily mastered, making this an ideal learning tool for beginners and a valuable reference for experienced healthcare professionals.- Effectively meet a full range of communication challenges including language and cultural barriers, sexual issues, elderly patients, breaking bad news, and non-adherence.- Easily apply proven techniques with help from supportive case examples and actual interview questions.- Get the skills you need now with new chapters covering advanced topics and applications including "Presentation and Documentation, " nonverbal communication, using psychological principles in medical practice, and integrating structure and function.- Quickly review information with summary tables, boxes and bulleted lists.- Get access on the go with the fully searchable text online at Student Consult, including cost-free access to a specially customized, interactive web-based Module on Brief Action Planning (BAP), a key component of the web-based, interactive Comprehensive Motivational Interventions (CMI)™ e-learning platform.
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Unit 1 Three Functions Of The Medical Interview
- Unit 2 Meeting the Patient
- Unit 3 Structure of the Interview
- Unit 4 Presentation and Documentation
- Unit 5 Understanding Patients' Emotional Responses to Chronic Illness
- Unit 6 Advanced Applications
- Unit 7 Higher Order Skills
- Appendix 1 The Medical Interview: The Three Function Approach Table of Skills
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3 Learning How to Interview
- Index