Therapeutic Processes for Communication Disorders : A Guide for Clinicians and Students

ISBN 10: 1848720416 / ISBN 13: 9781848720411

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Therapeutic Processes for Communication Disorders : A Guide for Clinicians and Students
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848720416
• ISBN 13: 9781848720411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.338 pounds

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Synopsis

Why do many people with disorders of communication experience a sense of demoralization? Do these subjective experiences have any bearing on how such problems should be treated? How can professionals dealing with speech, language, hearing and other communication disorders analyse and respond to the subjective and relational needs of clients with such problems?

In this book, authors in the fields of communication disorders analyse the psychological, social and linguistic processes and interactions that underpin clinical practice, from both client and clinician perspectives. The chapters demonstrate how it is possible to analyze and understand client-clinician discourse using qualitative research, and describe various challenges to establishing relationships such as cultural, gender and age differences. The authors go on to describe self-care processes, the therapeutic use of the self, and various psychological factors that could be important for developing therapeutic relationships. Also covered are the rarely considered topics of spirituality and transpersonal issues, which may at times be relevant to clinicians working with clients who have debilitating, degenerative and terminal illnesses associated with certain communication disorders.

While this book is geared toward the needs of practicing and training speech, language and hearing clinicians, other professional such as teachers of the deaf, psychotherapists, nurses, and occupational therapists will find the ideas relevant, interesting and easily translatable for use in their own clinical practice.

About the Author

Robert J. Fourie is a qualified speech and language therapist, audiologist and psychologist working and living in Cork. He is currently a lecturer in speech and hearing sciences at University College Cork in Ireland.