Designed with you in mind, Tamparo/Lindh/Blesi's THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, 5th Edition, is the complete guide to patient interactions in today's clinical care settings. Effective communication can ease patient anxiety, increase compliance and enhance health care interactions, especially when dealing with life-altering illness, death and dying, depression, substance use and abuse and other situations where patient behaviors can be unpredictable. In each chapter, you will explore caregivers' good and bad responses to stressful scenarios and techniques for improvement. Each chapter starts with a case study to bring life to the page and reinforces communication strategies with practice cases, boxed features, role-play exercises and questions throughout the text. No matter the situation you face on the job, THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS can prepare you with the soft skills you need to think critically and help patients cope.
Nuanced and practical, Tamparo/Lindh/Blesi's THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, 5th Edition, is the ideal reference for helping students learn to think critically and react to patients with therapeutically appropriate responses. Chapters discuss good and bad responses caregivers can have to stressful situations and techniques for improvement to help students communicate effectively, ease patient anxiety, increase compliance and enhance health care interactions for all. Case studies engage students in the content from each chapter's first page, reinforcing communication strategies with more practice cases, boxed features, role-play exercises and end-of-chapter questions. Whether facing end-of-life situations, substance use and abuse, mental illness or other stressful scenarios, students will develop an arsenal of soft skills to help patients cope.
