Patient Practitioner Interaction : Experiential Manual for Developing the Art of Health Care (3 ed)

This work serves as a comprehensive knowledge base and experiential tool proven to be essential in the complete development of future health care professionals.

This third edition includes five chapters on 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 behaviour and discussing sexuality and disability are included in this updated text.

Another chapter is devoted to communicating using Neurolinguistic Programming.

More information is added to the existing chapter on moral dilemmas.

The accompanying "Instructor's Manual" clarifies expected outcomes of the chapter exercises to facilitate optimum student-instructor discussions.