Davis’s Patient–Practitioner Interaction An Experiential Manual for Developing the Art of Health Care 7th Edition

This best-selling textbook, now in its seventh edition, is the essential resource to foster the self-awareness and communication skills needed by health professionals in providing ethical, compassionate, and professional care for their patients.

The book begins by encouraging readers to understand, change, and evaluate their patterns of response so that they can adapt to patients in a range of stressful or contentious situations. Through holistic self-awareness, taking into account one’s family history and personal values, the book then discusses methods of stress management before moving through the most effective ways to support and communicate with patients. There are chapters on establishing rapport, assertiveness, and conflict resolution, cultural sensitivity, leadership, spirituality, and patient education. Specific issues around communicating with terminally ill patients or those with disabilities are also covered.

Fully updated throughout, the seventh edition now features a new chapter devoted specifically to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, plus a new chapter covering professional formation in transitions from classroom to clinical education, including telehealth patient–practitioner interaction (PPI), interprofessional education, and early career pathways. The new edition is informed by the national Healthy People 2030 objectives, while also offering further coverage of the social determinants of health, biopsychosocial aspects of health and healing, and sexuality and sexual health.

Featuring interactive and online learning activities based on real-life clinical situations, as well as vignettes designed to make learning active and engaging, this invaluable text is ideal for any developing professional in the health professions.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Awareness of Self and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 2 Familial History and the Generations

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 3 Values as Determinants of Behavior

Appendix: Bloom’s Taxonomies: Affective, Cognitive, and Psychomotor Learning Domains

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 4 Identifying and Resolving Moral Dilemmas

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 5 Adversity Adaptation: Stress Management

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 6 Therapeutic Presence: The Nature of Effective Helping for Therapeutic Alliances

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 7 Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI): A Concept or a Way of Life

Mica Mitchell and Gina Maria Musolino

Chapter 8 Effective Communication: Problem Identification and Helpful Responses

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 9 Matters of Morality: Assertiveness Skills and Conflict Resolution

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 10 Readiness for Reflective Practice: Peer and Self‑Assessment

Gina Maria Musolino

Chapter 11 Leadership and Advocacy for Health Care

Gina Maria Musolino

Chapter 12 Mindful Matters: Communication to Establish Rapport

Alecia Helbing Thiele, Gina Maria Musolino, and Helen L. Masin

Chapter 13 Mindful Matters: Communicating with Cultural Sensitivity

Gina Maria Musolino and Helen L. Masin

Chapter 14 Healing Attitudes: The Helping Interview

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 15 Spirituality in Health Care

Gina Maria Musolino and Darina Sargeant

Chapter 16 Principles and Practices for Effective Patient/Client Education: Promoting Health Behaviors through Health Literacy, Transformative Health Models and Theories

Gina Maria Musolino and Kathleen A. Curtis

Chapter 17 Communicating with People Who Have Disabilities: Person‑Centered Practice

Gina Maria Musolino and Kathleen A. Curtis

Chapter 18 Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Health

Sherrill H. Hayes and Solange Dagress

Chapter 19 Attunement: Biopsychosocial Elements of Death and Dying

Gina Maria Musolino and Carol M. Davis

Chapter 20 Transitioning from Classroom to Clinic: Growth Mindsets, Intergenerational Engagement, Telehealth, and Artificial Intelligence

Appendix: Professional Behaviors Assessment Tool