Interventions in Health Care Interaction

Petra Sneijder, Annette Klarenbeek

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9783031595509
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031595516
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Psychology

This edited collection presents the latest work on the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to sensitive interactions and interventions in healthcare. While all interactions in healthcare settings can be challenging for both patients and practitioners, this book pays particular attention to topics that are likely to be especially sensitive, such as communication around sexual health, palliative care, suicide prevention, medically unexplained symptoms, or chronic pain. Across nine chapters authors discuss how discursive psychology and conversation analysis can help us understand what people actually do in conversations, hence providing a strong basis for developing and testing training methods that support health professionals to reflect on their interactions with patients. Addressing both practical and theoretical challenges in the development and implementation of such training sessions, this volume establishes the state-of-the-art in this area and offers a valuable tool for academics and researchers in discourse analytical fields, practitioners working to improve communication in health, as well as meeting facilitators in education or work settings related to healthcare.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Interventions in Health Care Interaction
• 2. RealTalk Resources for Clinical Trainers: Embedding Naturalistic Recordings and Conversation Analytic Evidence into Existing Practice in Communication Training
• 3. Contextualizing Empathy: Training Resources for Responding to Hopelessness in Crisis Helpline Communication
• 4. Using Real-time Recordings to Design Communication Training on How Physicians Discuss Code Status
• 5. Analysing and Evaluating Patient–Practitioner Interaction About Chronic Pain: A Workshop for Pain Rehabilitation Practitioners
• 6. Reflective Sexual Health Communication: Training Oncology Healthcare Professionals to Handle the Delicacy Associated With Talking About Sexuality
• 7. Training and Supervising Mental Health Clinicians Using Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis (RICA)
• 8. Leveraging Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis to Advance Racial Health Equity
• 9. Concluding Remarks
• Back Matter