Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Professionals

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.