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

Davis, Carol M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556424000 ISBN 13: 9781556424007

Publisher: SLACK Incorporated, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Carol M. Davis, EdD, PT

Carol M. Davis graduated from Lycoming College is Pennsylvania with an undergraduate degree in biology, and studied physical therapy at Case Western Reserve University (M.S., 1969). She completed her doctorate in humanistic studies at the School of Education at Boston University in 1982. Following a clinical staff position at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Davis was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Clinical Assistant Professor with Family and Internal Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine (Coordinator of the Fellowship in Clinical Geriatrics), Assistant Professor and co-chair ad interim at Sargent College of Boston University and Associate Professor of physical therapy at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where she teaches today. Dr. Davis also serves as Consultant to the Center for Psychosocial Oncology at the University of Miami Hospitals amd Clinics and treats patients with the University of Miami Faculty Practice. She regularly conducts postgraduate education workshops in geriatric care, in ethics, and in teaching attitudes and values. She is the editor of Complementary Therapies in Rehabilitation: Holistic Approaches for Prevention and Wellness, which was published by SLACK Incorporated in 1996.

Edition details

• Publisher: SLACK Incorporated
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556424000
• ISBN 13: 9781556424007
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 224