Full Description
The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care. Without adequate training in relationship science clinicians inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision process, difficulty changing health-related behavior, costly variation and derailment of care, extra litigation, and clinician burnout.
Relationship Power in Health Care
presents new knowledge and skills that empower health care and wellness professionals to become competent facilitators of behavior and lifestyle change, information transfer, and medical decision making in collaboration with their patients.
The new approaches are supported by a wide variety of research and clinical evidence, derived from modern psychotherapy, brain biology, and the latest advances in health coaching and nursing science. Putting them to work to improve health care makes good sense both scientifically and ethically.
This comprehensive text integrates past health psychology models starting from the 1950s with recent advances made since the 1990s in relationship psychology and interpersonal neurobiology. It also includes videos of brief medical interviews along with analysis of the strategies and tactics used. The videos can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781482264265.
The tactics outlined and the interview demonstrations, conducted by a highly experienced clinical social worker and nurse Joanne Gaffney, offer a unique opportunity for all clinicians to acquire valuable skills in both clinician self-care and patient care.
Contents
OVERVIEW. Introductory Discussion and Overview. Getting Started: Patients' Opening Statements. KNOWLEDGE. Past Health Psychology and Neuroscience (Prior to the Early 1990s). Present Advances in Relationship Psychology (After Early 1990s). Present Advances in Neuroscience (Starting with the Early 1990s). BUILDING NEW THEORETICAL HYPOTHESES, STR ATEGIES, AND TACTICS FOR CLINICIANS. Integration of Past with Present Advances (Selections of Elements to Include in a New Model). Formulations of Theoretical Hypotheses and Strategies of Relational Patient Care. Tactical Competencies and Frameworks. ACQUIRING INTERVIEWING SKILLS. Three Interviewing Demonstrations: Behavior Change, Information Interweave™, Medical Decision Making. A Learning Tool to Sequence Strategies and Tactics: Self-Aware Informational Nonjudgmental Interviewing in Health Care SINHC™ ("Synch"). Referring to Behavioral Health. FOR FACULTY AND OTHERS. Pathways in Education and Training. Health Coaching: What Is It? Who Does It? Where Is It Going? Future Research. Glossary. Appendix.
