Patient Practitioner Interaction: An Experiential Manual for Developing the Art of Health Care

Patient Practitioner Interaction, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive knowledge base and experiential tool proven to be essential in the complete development of future health care professionals. This critically acclaimed work by Carol M. Davis, EdD, PT documents her 28 years of success in teaching health professionals.

This third edition of Dr. Davis' best-seller includes five new chapters from three invited authors dedicated to teaching readers how to effectively communicate with patients. Experts in the field address communicating with cultural sensitivity, and interfacing with persons with chronic disabilities. Educating patients in health behavior and discussing sexuality and disability are included in this updated text. Another chapter is devoted to communicating using Neurolinguistic Psychology. Dr. Davis also added more information to her existing chapter that examines moral dilemmas, especially those dilemmas emerging from managed care.

Special Features

Each chapter begins with a set of clearly outlined objectives to identify learning goals and concludes with experiential exercises to promote goal achievement. Specially designed to assist the process of "professional socialization," the transition of the student into the professional role of a mature, healing practitioner. A unique and practical format that contains thought provoking exercises to evoke self-awareness and reinforce learning. True-to-life scenarios presented for education. Textbook is written in a workbook format for individual interaction. Third Edition concentrates on current ethical and moral situations.