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Evidence-based Health Communication - Softcover

Brown, Brian

 
9780335219957: Evidence-based Health Communication
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0335219950 ISBN 13: 9780335219957
Publisher: Open University Press, 2006

Synopsis

What is evidence-based health communication and how does it benefit patients? How has communication been taught to health professionals and how might it be improved? How can health care professionals make the most of short encounters in order to maximise their therapeutic effectiveness for clients? This book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the field of health communication and the kinds of evidence that have been collected concerning effective communication. It also critically evaluates the kinds of training health professionals receive in communication skills and examines its relatively limited role in the curriculum. In addition, it sets out what has been discovered about the micro-structure of interaction in health care encounters. The book offers vital new agendas for research training and practice in health care, based upon lessons learned from linguistics,

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About the Author

Paul Crawford trained as a psychiatric nurse before completing a PhD in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is author of the critically-acclaimed novel, 'Nothing Purple, Nothing Black' and a work of literary criticism, 'Politics and History in William Golding'.

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Publisher
Open University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0335219950
ISBN 13 
9780335219957
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
216