Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine - Softcover

Lloyd MD FRCP FRCGP, Margaret; Bor MA (Clin Psych) DPhil CPsychol CSci FBPsS FRAeS UKCP Reg EuroPsy, Robert; Noble BSc MPhil PhD Dip Clin Psychol AFBPsS, Lorraine M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702072133 ISBN 13: 9780702072130

Publisher: Elsevier, 2018

Synopsis

Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine is an essential guide to the core skills for effective patient-centered communication. In the twenty years since this book was first published the teaching of these skills has developed and evolved. Today’s doctors fully appreciate the importance of communicating successfully and sensitively with people receiving health care and those close to them.

This practical guide to developing communication skills will be of value to students throughout their careers. The order of the chapters reflects this development, from core skills to those required to respond effectively and compassionately in challenging situations. The text includes case examples, guidelines and opportunities to encourage the reader to stop and think.

The contents of the book cover:

• The fundamental elements of clinical communication, including skills for effectively gathering and sharing information, discussing sensitive topics and breaking bad news.
• Shared decision making, reflecting the rapid changes in expectations of medical care and skills for supporting patients in making decisions which are right for them.
• Communicating with a patient’s family, children and young people, patients from different cultural backgrounds, communicating via an interpreter and communicating with patients who have a hearing impairment.
• Diversity in communication, including examples of communicating with patients who have a learning disability, transgender patients, and older adult patients.
• Communicating about medical error, emphasising the importance of doctors being honest in the face of difficult situations.

• This is a practical guide to learning and developing communication skills throughout medical training.
• The chapters range from the development of basic skills to those dealing with challenging and difficult situations.

About this title

Review:

This is a beautifully presented, easy-to-read, up to date, evidence-based, practical guide to communication skills. This can be a difficult subject to convey - and engage the reader - on paper but the subject is alive on these pages. To be recommended to anyone who communicates! BMA Book Awards

About this edition

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0702072133
• ISBN 13: 9780702072130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 184