
Reflective Practice in Medicine and Multi-Professional Healthcare
John Launer(Author)
CRC Press
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
221 pages
978-0-367-71460-4 (ISBN)
Description
This unique book presents in a single collection around 50 essays by Dr Launer on reflective practice in medicine, including examples specific to medical education and multiprofessional healthcare. Based on existing contributions to the literature by Dr Launer, the book brings them together in updated form for the first time as a themed collection with an introduction linking the different topics addressed. Coverage includes communication skills, supervision, teamwork and organisational health. In a time of unprecedented demand on healthcare services, educators and practitioners, Dr Launer offers invaluable guidance to a broad audience including community-based GPs, practice nurses and nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physician assistants and paramedics, secondary care staff including consultants and registrars across all specialties, communications skills educators, counsellors and mental health professionals, and health service managers and administrators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Reference
Illustrations
5 s/w Tabellen, 2 s/w Abbildungen, 2 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 2 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 farbige Abbildungen
5 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, color; 2 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-71460-4 (9780367714604)
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Person
John Launer is Training Programme Director for Educational Innovation, North London Specialty School of General Practice, Health Education England, London, UK. He is a well-known medical educator and writer. He was for many years Associate Dean for Multi-Professional Faculty Development at Health Education England, London, UK.
Content
Foreword. Preface: On Reflection. Acknowledgements. LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE. Conversations Inviting Change. The Three-Second Consultation. The Big Picture. Family Matters. Three Kinds of Reflection. What's the Point of Reflective Writing? Digging Holes and Weaving Tapestries: Two Approaches to the Clinical Encounter. Why You Should Talk to Yourself: Internal Dialogue and Reflective Practice. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES. Thinking in Three Dimensions. Making Meaning. Who Owns Truth? Double Binds and Strange Loops. The Science of Compassion. Guidelines and Mindlines. Complexity Made Simple. SUPERVISION. Super Vision. What Does Good Supervision Look Like? Supervision Quartets. Collaborative Learning Groups. Clinical Case Discussion Using a Reflecting Team. The Irresistible Rise of Interprofessional Supervision. Supervision as Therapy. EMOTIONS AND ATTITUDES. On Kindness. Power and Powerlessness. The Many Faces of Professionalism. Unconscious Incompetence. Clinical Gist. Rudeness and Respect in Medicine. Hunting for Medical Errors: Asking 'What Have We Got Wrong Today?'. Whatever Happened to Silence? TECHNIQUES AND TEAMWORK. Good Questions. Meetings with Teams. Giving Feedback to Medical Students and Trainees: Rules, Guidance, and Realities. Why Doctors Should Draw Genograms- Including Their Own. Socratic Questions and Frozen Shoulders: Teaching without Telling. Concentric Conversations. NARRATIVE PRACTICE. Why Narrative? Right on Cue. Narrative Diagnosis. Therapeutic Dialogue. Medicine as Poetry. Patient Choice and Narrative Ethics. The Yin and Yang of Medical Conversations. PROVOCATIONS. Medically Unexplored Stories. Taking Risks Seriously. Dumpling Soup. Is There a Crisis in Clinical Consultations? Patients as Ethnographers. Docsplaining. Against Diagnosis. Author's Note. Index.