The Fifteen Minute Hour : Efficient and Effective Patient-Centered Consultation Skills, Sixth Edition

The Fifteen Minute Hour is well-established as a classic text, providing invaluable support for primary care practitioners aiming to increase patient satisfaction without adding significantly to the length of a visit. This sixth edition continues to emphasise a patient-centred approach to help practitioners enhance the therapeutic relationship with their patients. With a renewed focus on wellness and health promotion, the book offers simple and effective techniques to solve or prevent psychological and behavioural problems manifested in the consultation. The Fifteen Minute Hour has become essential reading around the world, and this sixth edition is completely updated with brand new case material based on real-world consultations, additional techniques for managing chronic conditions including pain, and new references substantiating the efficacy of the authors' methods. Read more... Abstract: The Fifteen Minute Hour is well-established as a classic text, providing invaluable support for primary care practitioners aiming to increase patient satisfaction without adding significantly to the length of a visit. This sixth edition continues to emphasise a patient-centred approach to help practitioners enhance the therapeutic relationship with their patients. With a renewed focus on wellness and health promotion, the book offers simple and effective techniques to solve or prevent psychological and behavioural problems manifested in the consultation. The Fifteen Minute Hour has become essential reading around the world, and this sixth edition is completely updated with brand new case material based on real-world consultations, additional techniques for managing chronic conditions including pain, and new references substantiating the efficacy of the authors' methods Content: The BATHE technique : key to making your practice patient-centered -- Broadening the context of the office visit or medical consultation -- Promoting wellness and managin chronic conditions -- Small interventions and why they work -- Therapeutic pearls for brief counseling sessions -- Structuring a fifteen minute counseling session -- Managing difficult patients : their pain and yours -- Accenting the positive : puitting an affirmative spin on the BATHE technique -- Handling special situations, staff, and assurance self-preservation -- Wrapping up : integrating treatments, modifying lifestyles, getting results -- Appendix A: Twelve good questions and three good answers for all seasons -- Appendix B: Recommended books and other resources for patients. This new edition of the best-selling Minor Illness Manual has been completely revised and updated with the latest clinical guidance and prescribing information, and includes a new chapter on the changing demands of Primary Care.