Full Description
Interpersonal Skills and Health Professional Issues, third edition, prepares students for effective communication in a health professional role. The text provides the skills and strategies needed for health professionals to engage and better motivate patients. The text offers an ideal model for nonverbal communication and emphasizes how to read the "unspoken message". Interpersonal Skills and Health Professional Issues is unique in its comprehensiveness, covering the communications and emotional experiences of the patient world and a framework for multicultural understanding. Case studies and exercises enhance the textbook experience, providing readers with a deeper understanding of how to reach patients and their families.
Contents
About the AuthorsForewordBrief ContentTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART 1Foundations of Counseling and CommunicationChapter 1Body Language and Nonverbal CommunicationChapter 2Basics Skills in Verbal CommunicationPART 2Foundations for Understanding HumanBehaviorChapter 3Basic PsychologyChapter 4 Mental Health and Adaptive DisordersChapter 5 Death and DyingChapter 6 Developmental: Early Childhood and AdolescenceChapter 7 Developmental Issues: SenescenceChapter 8 AddictionChapter 9 The Role of Counseling in PreventionPART 3Issues for Health ProfessionalsChapter 10Interdisciplinary CommunicationChapter 11Professional EthicsChapter 12Abuse and DiscriminationChapter 13Legal ConcernsChapter 14Multicultural Health IssuesGlossaryIndex
