Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine

Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine by Margaret Lloyd

Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine is an essential guide to the core skills for effective patient-centered communication. In the twenty years since this book was first published the teaching of these skills has developed and evolved. Today's doctors fully appreciate the importance of communicating successfully and sensitively with people receiving health care and those close to them. This practical guide to developing communication skills will be of value to students throughout their careers. The order of the chapters reflects this development, from core skills to those required to respond effectively and compassionately in challenging situations. The text includes case examples, guidelines and opportunities to encourage the reader to stop and think. The contents of the book cover: The fundamental elements of clinical communication, including skills for effectively gathering and sharing information, discussing sensitive topics and breaking bad news. Shared decision making, reflecting the rapid changes in expectations of medical care and skills for supporting patients in making decisions which are right for them. Communicating with a patient's family, children and young people, patients from different cultural backgrounds, communicating via an interpreter and communicating with patients who have a hearing impairment. Diversity in communication, including examples of communicating with patients who have a learning disability, transgender patients, and older adult patients. Communicating about medical error, emphasising the importance of doctors being honest in the face of difficult situations. This is a practical guide to learning and developing communication skills throughout medical training. The chapters range from the development of basic skills to those dealing with challenging and difficult situations.

This is a beautifully presented, easy-to-read, up to date, evidence-based, practical guide to communication skillsThis can be a difficult subject to convey - and engage the reader - on paper but the subject is alive on these pages. To be recommended to anyone who communicates! BMA Book Awards

Lloyd, Margaret: - Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England of Welsh parents and grew up in a Welsh community in central New York State. FORGED LIGHT is her third collection of poems. Alice James Books brought out her first collection, This Particular Earthly Scene. Plinth Books published A MOMENT IN THE FIELD: VOICES FROM ARTHURIAN LEGEND (2006). In addition, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press published William Carlos Williams' Paterson: A Critical Reappraisal, now considered seminal in the field. Her poetry honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, fellowships to Breadloaf and to Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and a writing residency at Yaddo where she worked on the poems in FORGED LIGHT. A poet and painter, Lloyd is Professor of English at Springfield College.

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ISBN 13	9780702072130
ISBN 10	0702072133
Title	Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine
Author	Margaret Lloyd
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Health Sciences
Year published	2018-02-22
Number of pages	184
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