Clinical Communication
The Ideal of Patient Empowerment and the Reality of Patient Vulnerability and Dependence
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-61955-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-61955-4 (ISBN)
Many current ideas that identify good communication with certain communication behaviours, or 'skills', were ethically inspired to help doctors see beyond disease to the whole patient. This Element challenges the 'status quo' in clinical communication research and teaching, offering instead a clinically realistic and evidence-based approach.
Good communication is necessary for good clinical care, but defining good communication has been surprisingly difficult and controversial. Many current ideas that identify good communication with certain communication behaviours, or 'skills', were ethically inspired to help doctors see beyond disease to the whole patient. However, promoting specific behaviours is problematic because communication is contextually dependent. In recent decades, observational research into practitioner-patient relationships has begun to provide a scientific basis for the field, identifying patients' vulnerability and practitioners' authority as defining features of fundamentally asymmetric clinical relationships. Future educators can learn from research that explores the judgments that experienced practitioners make when they manage communication dilemmas arising from this asymmetry. In future, instead of the current emphasis on teaching communication behaviours, educators could provide practitioners with knowledge about relationships to inform those judgments, while addressing the attitudes and values that motivate and guide their communication.
Good communication is necessary for good clinical care, but defining good communication has been surprisingly difficult and controversial. Many current ideas that identify good communication with certain communication behaviours, or 'skills', were ethically inspired to help doctors see beyond disease to the whole patient. However, promoting specific behaviours is problematic because communication is contextually dependent. In recent decades, observational research into practitioner-patient relationships has begun to provide a scientific basis for the field, identifying patients' vulnerability and practitioners' authority as defining features of fundamentally asymmetric clinical relationships. Future educators can learn from research that explores the judgments that experienced practitioners make when they manage communication dilemmas arising from this asymmetry. In future, instead of the current emphasis on teaching communication behaviours, educators could provide practitioners with knowledge about relationships to inform those judgments, while addressing the attitudes and values that motivate and guide their communication.
1. Introduction; 2. Ethical Context: What Should Clinical Communication be Like?; 3. Psychological Theory: What is Clinical Communication Like?; 4. Technologies of Patient Empowerment and Patient-Centredness; 5. The Technology of Communication Skills; 6. Communication in cancer care; 7. Towards the Next Generation of Communication Teaching; 8. Epilogue.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.02.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements in Health Communication |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 303 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-61955-1 / 1009619551 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-61955-4 / 9781009619554 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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