Publications abroad

Communication with Patients is a book for doctors that teaches how to listen, how to talk, how to resolve conflicts and how to provide support, i.e. how to build a good relationship with a patient, understand their intentions and behaviour, and how to overcome emerging...

The book presents a range of issues related to the new social science discipline of health communication. The authors presented the main issues relating to media and communication in shaping patient attitudes....

The book consists of eight chapters, which are divided into theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part draws on knowledge about the doctor-patient relationship accumulated from the fields of medicine, health psychology or the sociology of medicine. In the chapter...

The collection of articles is devoted to a wide range of issues at the interface of psychology and medicine. The papers have been gathered into logically established three sections presenting the fundamental problems involved in presenting social communication research in terms of understanding...

The book addresses both general issues - e.g. the importance of professional communication in the doctor-patient relationship, the needs of the patient - and specific issues concerning the principles and specificities of contact with certain groups of patients. The authors use clear and helpful ...

The author has developed this book on interpersonal communication with healthcare professionals in mind. In his view, every doctor should be able to talk to a patient in such a way that he or she can make a diagnosis and determine further treatment without missing an opportunity to...

Communicating with Patients. Relationships and Communication is a unique publication that presents patient communication as a set of multiple skills:: humanistic and medical, theoretical and practical. The main feature of the book is the interdisciplinary approach to...

You are in a very difficult profession. And a very responsible one. And very beautiful. As you make decisions about treatment choices, guided by the welfare of the patient, informed by the effects of treatment, you rejoice in every recovery but sometimes, you also endure frustrations....

The aim of the book is to provide practical information that will help the GP to establish and maintain contact with patients and to learn about their expectations and concerns about their illness, and for medical students to see what the doctor's work...

The book presents the principles of proper physician-patient communication. It discusses, among other things, issues of verbal and non-verbal communication, the importance of the medical history, the role of doctor-patient communication in shaping health-promoting behaviour....

Nell Dunn's play 'Tales of Cancer', captures the experiences of people affected by cancer, and their families and carers, at all stages of their struggle with the disease. The study 'Tales of Cancer. The art of communication in oncology care' was produced in collaboration with...

Through his experiences in medical work, Peter Salmon makes us aware of the impact of an individual's beliefs, emotions and behaviours (both those of the patient and the professional working with them) on the process of diagnosis and treatment and the difficulties that arise during this process. His book is...

Numerous studies indicate that a large proportion of patients are dissatisfied with their relationship with healthcare professionals. The source of this dissatisfaction is rarely the incompetence of the latter. More often it is a lack of ability to establish psychological contact with patients....

The book's attempt to describe doctor-patient communication in Poland may help to understand what actually happens behind the doctor's office door and facilitate a more informed and thus effective doctor-patient relationship....

Maintaining a relationship with a patient is an essential part of a doctor's work. A Practical Guide to Physician-Patient Communication shows how to skilfully apply the theoretical foundations of communication to everyday clinical practice. The publication prompts reflection on ...