Therapeutic Communications for Health Care Professionals (Book Only)

Health professionals today need a succinct yet brief text to guide them through the maze of communication with patients and consumers of health care. All the usual dynamics are heightened when persons participating in communication are sick, frustrated, hurting, and worried. The central idea of this comprehensive text is that good therapeutic communication with patients will decrease the risk both to patient and provider of misunderstandings, and will increase patient compliance, and save time for everyone in the long run. A wide variety of client profiles and appropriate therapeutic responses are presented for stress, anger, suicide, depression, drug dependency, abuse, loss, grief, SAD and postpartum depression.