Providing feedback is an essential part of communication, coaching, management, and human resources practices. While academic journal articles highlight the essential elements of effective practice, these principles are rarely translated into the workplace, where they can greatl…
Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of ""healthy"" talk is explicitly prom…
Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promot…
"Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of 'healthy' talk is explicitly promo…
This book uses a communication perspective to address insights and methods in private mediation, small group facilitation, system design, large-scale interventions, and public issue management.
This book has been written by doctors from a variety of specialties with extensive experience of medical education and of organising and examining OSCEs.
"This very stimulating and provocative book is highly recommended. All professionals concerned with human behavior will find something of value in this book, but others, especially parents of babies and young children, can gain insight into the nurturing needs of infants"--Amazo…
This book explores rhetorical ethos and its ongoing role in patients' credibility and in misdiagnoses stemming from gender, race and class-based biases. Drawing on the concept of ethos as a theoretical framework, it explores health and mental illness across different conditions …
Revised and expanded seminal work on families, with more than a million copies sold in 12 languages. The New Peoplemaking expresses Satir's most evolved thoughts on self-worth, communication, family systems, and the ways in which people relate to one another. Drawn on Satir's li…
« Now in its fifth edition, Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives continues to live up to its long-standing reputation as the most dynamic and current exploration of health communication on the market. The book offers rich, current research and in-depth ana…
