1st Edition

Health Care Communication Using Personality Type Patients are Different!

By Judy Allen, Susan A. Brock Copyright 2000

    This groundbreaking text draws upon examples from everyday health care situations to demonstrate that the behaviour differences we all experience in others actually fit within a readily understandable framework (the MBI).

    Chapter 1 Communication, health care and the perspective of type; Chapter 2 Introductionducing FLEX Care; Chapter 3 Seeing type preference in action; Chapter 4 Using a knowledge of psychological type when breaking bad news; Chapter 5 Adherence — encouraging patients to follow clinical advice; Chapter 6 Working together; Chapter 7 Type — a tool for personal and professional development; Chapter 8 Creating committed action; Chapter 9 9 Next steps; Appendix; Bibliography; Index;

    Biography

    Allen, Judy; Brock, Susan A.

    'This book is an important contribution to the literature on health-care communication. It makes the concept of psychological type in this setting accessible to all in a way which will be of use to all doctors, medical educators, and other health-care professionals who are interested in improving communication within the field of health care. I recommend it to all readers.' - Hospital Medicine