Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Professionals [Paperback]

Nuanced and practical, Tamparo/Lindh/Blesi's THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, 5th Edition, is the ideal reference for helping students learn to think critically and react to patients with therapeutically appropriate responses. Chapters discuss good and bad responses caregivers can have to stressful situations and techniques for improvement to help students communicate effectively, ease patient anxiety, increase compliance and enhance health care interactions for all. Case studies engage students in the content from each chapter's first page, reinforcing communication strategies with more practice cases, boxed features, role-play exercises and end-of-chapter questions. Whether facing end-of-life situations, substance use and abuse, mental illness or other stressful scenarios, students will develop an arsenal of soft skills to help patients cope.1. Therapeutic Communication. 2. Multicultural Therapeutic Communication. 3. Therapeutic Communication in Complementary Medicine. 4. The Helping Interview. 5. The Therapeutic Response Across the Life Span. 6. The Therapeutic Response to Clients Who Are Stressed, Anxious, and Fearful. 7. The Therapeutic Response to Clients Who Are Angry, Aggressive, Abused, or Abusive. 8. The Therapeutic Response to Clients Who Have Depression and/or Are Experiencing Suicidal Thoughts. 9. The Therapeutic Response to Clients with Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders. 10. The Therapeutic Response to Clients with Life-Altering Illness. 11. The Therapeutic Response to Clients Experiencing Loss, Grief, Dying, and Death. Appendix A: Theories of Growth and Development. Appendix B: Defense Mechanisms.