Research Catalog

Title

The medical interview : the three function approach / Steven A. Cole, MD, MA, FAPA, Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus Story Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY ; Julian Bird, MA (CANTAB), FRCP, FRCPSYCH, Lately Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Guy's Kings and St. Thomas School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom.

Author

Cole, Steven A.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, Saunders, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Bird, Julian

Description

xviii, 316 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The Medical Interview by Drs. Steven A. Cole and Julian Bird equips you to communicate effectively with your patients so you can provide optimal care! This best-selling, widely adopted resource presents a practical, systematic approach to honing your basic interviewing skills and managing common challenging communicating situations. Its Three-Function Approach - "Build the Relationship," "Assess and Understand," and Collaborative Management" offers straightforward tasks, behaviors, and skills that can be easily mastered, making this an ideal learning tool for beginners and a valuable reference for experienced healthcare professionals. Effectively meet a full range of communication challenges including language and cultural barriers, sexual issues, elderly patients, breaking bad news, and non-adherence.

Subject

• Medical history taking
• Interviewing
• Physician and patient
• Medical History Taking
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Communication

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Learning to interview using the three function approach: introduction and overview -- Three functions: the basic model / Steven Cole, Julian Bird, Joseph S. Weiner -- Function one: build the relationship / Steven Cole, Julian Bird, Joseph S. Weiner -- Function two: assess and understand -- Function three: collaborate for management / Steven Cole, Mary DeGenaro Cole, Damara Gutnick, Connie Davis -- Ten common concerns -- Opening the interview -- Chief complaint, problem survey, patient's perspective, and agenda setting -- History of present illness -- Past medical history -- Family history -- Patient profile and social history -- Review of systems -- Mental status -- Presentation and documentation / Susan Lane -- Understanding chronic illness: normal reactions -- Understanding chronic illness maladaptive reactions -- Stepped-care advanced skills for action planning / Steven Cole, Damara Gutnick, Joseph Weiner -- Communicating with patients with chronic illness / Connie Davis, Steven Cole -- Health literacy and communicating complex information for decision making / Connie Davis, Khati Hendry -- Sexual issues in the interview / Mary DeGenaro Cole, Steven Cole -- Interviewing elderly patients / Catherine Nicastri, Steven Cole -- Culturally competent medical interviewing / David J. Steele -- Family interviewing / Kathy Cole-Kelly, Thomas L. Campbell -- Troubling personality styles and somatization -- Communicating with the psychotic patient / Guy Undrill -- Breaking bad news / Geoffrey H. Gordon -- Sharing difficult or bad news: a nine-step process of transformation / Joseph S. Weiner -- Disclosure of medical errors and apology / Steven Locke, Toni Walzer, Roxane Gardner -- Risky drinking and interviewing about alcohol use / William Clark -- Nonverbal communication / Cecile A. Carson -- Use of the self in medical care / Dennis H. Novack -- Using psychological principles in the medical interview -- Integrating structure and function: diagnostic reasoning, clinical inference, communication flexibility, and rules / Steven Cole -- Appendixes: 1. The medical interview: the three function approach table of skills -- 2. The brief action planning guide -- 3. Learning how to interview.

ISBN

• 9780323052214
• 0323052215

LCCN

2013037383

OCLC

• ocn858610936
• 858610936
• SCSB-14174092

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries