Professional and Therapeutic Communication, second edition, provides students with a comprehensive understanding of communication as they enter complex and diverse multidisciplinary healthcare environments. It guides students through concepts fundamental to both the professional and therapeutic elements of the caring relationship and all aspects of interpersonal interaction that are essential to safe, high-quality healthcare. The book is updated with rich pedagogical features to support student learning and includes additional content focusing on the important use of 'self' in communication, extending into concepts of reflection and practice. It promotes skills development throughout with an emphasis on providing content for healthcare students from all health disciplines so they can effectively communicate with patients, clients and consumers in contemporary healthcare contexts.

Professional and Therapeutic Communication

Politics & Social Sciences

Birks, Melanie

Davis, Jenny

Chapman, Ysanne

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Professional and Therapeutic Communication focuses on the professional approaches to communication and the therapeutic elements of the caring relationship. It provides a contemporary and practical approach to fundamental concepts, with an emphasis on creating learning-centred working environments, through which students may explore the variety of situations in which communication with patients, relatives and colleagues occur in the clinical environment. The text is structured to give consideration to a lifespan focus, with attention to communication through verbal, non-verbal and written means. Special attention is given to the unique advantages and challenges that accompany the growth of communication through electronic systems.

Medical Books

Nursing

Inclusive Practice: Sociological Concepts for Health Professionals introduces students to the socio-political implications of the work they will be doing within the healthcare sector. It embraces the multi-disciplinary nature of work in the health professions, and applies the term inclusive practice to focus attention on its relevance to all health care professionals with the shared aim of improving health outcomes. The text considers the interface between health care delivery, health care professionals and population groups, while providing a critical approach to examining the strategies for inclusive practice in contemporary Australian health care.

Inclusive Practice for Health Professionals

Administration & Medicine Economics

Good-Bye and Keep Cold

A classic young adult coming of age novel set in the hills of Kentucky. Now reissued in POINT with stunning new cover art reminiscent of the adult bestseller COLD MOUNTAIN.Eight-year-old Edda's world is shattered the day her father is killed in a strip mining accident. Edda has always been a lonely child, and without her father beside her, she feels that her connection to the world has been severed. But she bravely assumes the responsibility of holding her family -- especially her grieving mother -- together.As the years slip by, Edda grows up quickly into an adult world that is often mysterious and bewildering. And she slowly comes to accept that her family may be hurt, but they are still whole.

Good-bye And Keep Cold

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Paperbacks

Edda's mother is courted by the man responsible for her young father's death in a mine accident in a small Kentucky town.

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Laurel-Leaf

Working together on a term project for their sex education class, David and Livvie are instructed to care for someone else for the semester and choose a lonely, pregnant neighbor, a task that proves more difficult than they anticipated. Reprint.

Sex Education

Cab Jones has never met her grandmother or been to the town where she lives. But when Cab's mother and new stepfather takes off to Europe for the summer, Cab and her older brother find themselves stuck in Washco, Pennsylvania. The streets are dirty and drab, and Cab is afraid she'll never make friends.But Cab's summer job waitressing in her grandmother's restaurant--EATS--proves to be a great way to meet people, including her new friend, Tracy. Slowly Cab comes to love the neighborhood and the restaurant's colorful coffee drinkers.Then the even fabric of summer in Washco is ripped apart when terrible crimes are committed against the residents. Cab and Tracy join a crusade to restore safety to the streets of the place that has become home to Cab. But by summer's end Cab finds the future has another home in store for her.

CHECKING ON THE MOON (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Edda's mother is courted by the man responsible for her young father's death in a mine accident in a small Kentucky town

Orchard Books

Sex Education: A Novel

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring and eventually about pain and courage.When their ninth-grade sex education class is given the assignment to care about someone, Livvie Sinclair and popular David Kindler team up to aid a troubled young wife, and the youngsters discover the meaning of love

While spending the summer helping her grandmother run a restaurant in a decaying, dangerous neighborhood on the edge of Pittsburgh, thirteen-year-old Cab meets many colorful characters and helps with the neighborhood crime watch

Checking on the Moon

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Professional and Therapeutic Communication

Professional and Therapeutic Communication

Inclusive Practice for Health Professionals

Good-bye And Keep Cold

Good-Bye and Keep Cold

Sex Education

CHECKING ON THE MOON (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Good-Bye and Keep Cold

Sex Education: A Novel

Checking on the Moon