Making the Patient Your Partner Communication Skills for Doctors and Other Caregivers

Name: Making the Patient Your Partner Communication Skills for Doctors and Other Caregivers
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ISBN: 9780865692732

ISBN-10: 0865692734

ISBN-13: 9780865692732

Edition: 1997

Authors: W. Sterling Edwards, W. Sterling Edwards

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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,…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 7/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Dissatisfaction with Relationships with Patients


A Collaborative Model for Relating to Patients


Empathic Listening: Applications and Benefits


Roadblocks to Patient Communication Self-Disclosure


Skills for Health Care Professionals


Dealing Effectively with Conflicts Helping


Patients Cope with an Adverse Diagnosis Special


Problems Dealing with AIDS Patients Helping Patients Maintain


Hope Helping Patients Find Meaning Helping the Terminal Patient


Other Applications of Interpersonal Skills