Communication Strategies in Medical Settings: Challenging Situations and Practical Solutions

ISBN-13: 9783631662458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 183 str.

Katalin Varga;Judit Schlanger

Opis

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the power of suggestive techniques for solving medical problems. In everyday practice health professionals often face situations where they have to handle people in negative trance states. When that happens, patients are open to suggestive techniques. The author briefly describes more than 30 cases of agitated, unmotivated, tired, confused, mentally handicapped patients. To medical doctors, nurses, psychologists, mentalhygienists, midwifes, physiotherapists etc. in their own practice the book offers a description of a potent method to solve tensed medical situations, and a way to improve communicational skills.

Spis treści

Contents: Suggestions - Medical communication - Difficult patient - Negative trance.

O autorze

Katalin Varga is senior lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, head of the Department of Affective Psychology, President of the Hungarian Association of Hypnosis and BoD member of the International Society of Hypnosis. As a member of the «Budapest hypnosis research laboratory» she is investigating hypnosis in an interactional framework.