Therapeutic Communications for Health Professionals

by Lindh,Wilburta Q.

• ISBN13: 9780766809215
• ISBN10: 0766809218
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-30
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This comprehensive text focuses on communication, learning theories, and the practical application of therapeutic communication in various patient situations. This 2nd edition text presents in detail basic communication skills and approaches that are appropriate for use with all age groups. Chapters related to learning theories, the understanding of growth and development of each age group, and the recognition of defense mechanisms provide an awareness of the critical elements involved in therapeutic communication. The information in this revised version is clearly presented in a sequential manner that is easily transferred to real-life situations. Knowledge gleaned from this text is helpful in any allied health profession. A wide variety of client profiles and appropriate therapeutic responses are presented for stress, anger, suicide, depression, drug dependency, abuse, loss, grief, SAD and postpartum depression. (Defensive, depressed, abuse, health, Allied Health, communication, therapy, patient)

Table of Contents

Section I

Self Awareness

Human and Technical Relations Skills

Social and Therapeutic Communications

The Therapeutic Process

What is Your Style

Professional Application

Basic Communication Skills

Communication Cycle

Verbal Communications

Nonverbal Communications

Communications with Diverse Populations

Influence of Technology on Communication

Team Communication

Listening Skills

The Helping Interview

Orientation

Identification of Problem

Levels of Need

Questioning Techniques

Roadblocks to Communication

Resolution of the Problem

Defense Mechanisms

Regression

Repression

Sublimination

Projection

Displacement

Undoing

Compensation

Identification

Denial

Rationalization

Learning Theories of Growth and Development:

Cognitive Development Learning Theory

Jean Piaget

Psychoanalytic Development Learning Theories

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Eric Erikson (1902-1994)

Moral Development Learning Theories

Piaget's Six Dimensions of Moral Development

Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

Behavioral and Humanistic Learning Theories

Ivan Pavlov, Behaviorist. B. F. Skinner, Behaviorist

Social Learning Theory

Abraham Maslow, Humanist

The Therapeutic Response:

The Therapeutic Response in Age Groups

Children

Adolescents

Adults

Elder Adults

The Therapeutic Response to Frightened, Angry and Aggressive Clients

The Frightened Client

The Angry/Aggressive Client

The Therapeutic Response to Stressed and Anxious Clients

What is Stress

Stress Theories

Anxiety

Stress and the Life Cycle

How to Reduce Stress

The Therapeutic Response to Depressed Clients

Types of Depression

Depression and the Life Cycle

Therapeutic Approaches

The Therapeutic Response to Suicidal Clients

Four Stages of Contemplating Suicide

Therapeutic Approaches

The Therapeutic Response to Sexually Suggestive Clients

Attitudes Toward Sexuality

Therapeutic Approaches

The Therapeutic Response to Drug-Dependent Clients

Alcoholism

Abuse of Other Drugs

The Therapeutic Response to Abusive and Abused Clients

Phases of Violence

Rape

Physical Indicators of Abuse

The Therapeutic Response to AIDS Clients

The Realities of AIDS

The Therapeutic Response to Clients Experiencing Loss, Grief, Dying and Death

G. L. Engle. Kubler-Ross

Cultural Influences on Grief and death

Kinds of Losses

Factors That Influence Grief

Anticipatory Grief

Dysfunctional and Unresolved Grief

Losses Faced by Persons with a Life-Threating Illness

The Therapeutic Response

The Right to Die

Glossary

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