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    <title>Communication skills for the health care professional: concepts, practice, and evidence</title>
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    <namePart>Van Servellen, Gwen Marram.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Jones and Bartlett Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxxiv, 485 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Health communications and quality care -- Principles of human communication -- The nature of therapeutic communications -- Cultural similarities and differences and communication -- The pervasive role of confirmation and empathy -- Communications that contribute to trust and mistrust of the providers -- The art and skillful use of questions -- Therapeutic use of silence and pauses -- The impact and limitations of self-disclosure -- The proper placement of advisement -- Reflections and interpretations -- The judicious use of confrontations, orders, and commands -- Communicating with patients with low literacy -- Communicating with patients with chronic and/or life-threatening illness -- Communicating with patients in crisis -- Communicating effectively with patients displaying significant negative or resistive coping responses -- Communications within and across healthcare provider groups -- Conflict in the healthcare system: understanding communications and resolving dispute -- Family dynamics and communications with patients' significant others -- The privileged nature of patient and provider communications: the issue of patients' rights -- The privileged nature of patient and provider communications: issues of confidentiality, anonymity, and privacy -- Health communications to enhance behavioral change -- Internet use and communications of patients and providers -- Altering systems of care to enhance healthcare communications --</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Gwen van Servellen.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-462) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Allied health personnel and patient</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Interpersonal communication</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communication in medicine</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Professional-Patient Relations</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Communication</topic>
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    <topic>Patients</topic>
    <topic>psychology</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">R727.3.V36 </classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">610.69</classification>
  <classification authority="nlm">W 21 V2176ca 2009</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780763755577 (pbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0763755575 (pbk.)</identifier>
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