The Medical Interview by Drs. Steven A. Cole and Julian Bird equips you to <b>communicate effectively</b> with your patients so you can provide optimal care! This best-selling, widely adopted resource presents a <b>practical, systematic approach</b> to honing your basic <b>interviewing skills</b> and managing common challenging communicating situations. Its <b>Three-Function Approach</b> – "Build the Relationship," "Assess and Understand," and Collaborative Management" offers straightforward tasks, behaviors, and skills that can be easily mastered, making this an <b>ideal learning tool</b> for beginners and a valuable reference for experienced healthcare professionals.<ul><b> <li>Effectively meet a full range of communication challenges </b>including language and cultural barriers, sexual issues, elderly patients, breaking bad news, and non-adherence.</li></ul><ul><b> <li>Easily apply proven techniques</b> with help from supportive case examples and actual interview questions.</li> <li><b>Get the skills you need now </b>with new chapters covering advanced topics and applications including "Presentation and Documentation," nonverbal communication, using psychological principles in medical practice, and integrating structure and function. </li> <li><b>Quickly review</b> <b>information</b> with summary tables, boxes and bulleted lists.</li> <li><b>Get access on the go </b>with the fully searchable text online at <b>Student Consult, </b>including cost-free access to a specially customized, interactive web-based Module on Brief Action Planning (BAP), a key component of the web-based, interactive Comprehensive Motivational Interventions (CMI)™ e-learning platform.</li></ul>