This pioneering book on the doctor-patient alliance how important are the principles underlying shared decision-making and how to transform these principles into clinical practice. Dr Shawn Christopher Shea, an internationally acclaimed author, has an excellent ability to see the complexities of clinical interviewing in relation to shared decision-making, while creating a framework and interviewing techniques that clarify and simplify these complexities so that young clinicians can apply them immediately. This book demonstrates the art of strengthening the therapeutic alliance by addressing one of the most, if not the most, important of the tasks of interviewing for successful treatment: talking with patients together about their medications and effectively increasing medication adherence. The medication interest model (MIM) was developed by observing physicians and case managers talking to their patients about their medications and by holding over 150 MIM workshops with primary care physicians, nurses, mental health professionals and other allied health professionals. The result is a book full of knowledge that can only be gained by learning from skilled clinicians.
- The principles and techniques of interviewing are easy to learn and apply, providing an ideal introduction for medical, nursing, physician assistant and clinical pharmacy students on how to effectively create a therapeutic alliance while improving medication adherence.
- Provides the most up-to-date information and nuances of the Medication Interest Model (MIM) from its creator and developer, a clinical model specifically designed for effective use in hectic clinical settings in primary care clinics, specialist clinics and hospital wards.
- Presents more than 100 specific interviewing techniques that are equally useful for medications for all conditions - from hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia, asthma and congestive heart failure to cancer, AIDS and PTSD .
- It clearly demonstrates how powerful words influence whether patients are interested in taking medication and staying on it, providing precise wording for more than 100 interviewing techniques, showing, with clinical examples and clinical dialogue, all their nuances for immediate, everyday practicality.
- It contains a wealth of relevant information for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, case managers and clinical pharmacists from a variety of disciplines, from primary care to specialists in endocrinology, cardiology, neurology, rheumatology and psychiatry - and is equally valuable and useful for both students and experienced clinicians .
- User-friendly advice archive with exact wording of all
100 tips presented in an easily accessible e-book for quick referral by medical and nursing students during clinical rotations.