Interventions in Health Care Interaction

This edited collection presents the latest work on the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to sensitive interactions and interventions in healthcare. While all interactions in healthcare settings can be challenging for both patients and practitioners, this book pays particular attention to topics that are likely to be especially sensitive, such as communication around sexual health, palliative care, suicide prevention, medically unexplained symptoms, or chronic pain. Across nine chapters authors discuss how discursive psychology and conversation analysis can help us understand what people actually do in conversations, hence providing a strong basis for developing and testing training methods that support health professionals to reflect on their interactions with patients. Addressing both practical and theoretical challenges in the development and implementation of such training sessions, this volume establishes the state-of-the-art in this area and offers a valuable tool for academics and researchers in discourse analytical fields, practitioners working to improve communication in health, as well as meeting facilitators in education or work settings related to healthcare.

Presents the latest innovations in the application of discursive psychology to health care Uses discursive psychology and conversation analysis to inform sensitive interactions in health care contexts Offers insights to improve interactions about sensitive topics in health care

Auteur

Petra Sneijder is Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands. As part of the Communication in Digital Transition research group, she analyses societal issues using a discursive psychological perspective. She is specifically interested in translating findings into practical implementation, using (digital) interventions.

Annette Klarenbeek is Professor of Applied Sciences and part of the Communication in Digital Transition research group at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her work takes an interactional perspective on communication with an emphasis on conversational communities.

Contenu

1.Introduction: Interventions in Health Care Interaction.- 2. RealTalk resources for clinical trainers: Embedding naturalistic recordings and conversation analytic evidence into existing practice in communication training.- 3. Contextualizing empathy: Training resources for responding to hopelessness in crisis helpline communication.- 4. Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status.- 5. Analysing and Evaluating PatientPractitioner Interaction About Chronic Pain: A Workshop for Pain Rehabilitation Practitioners.- 6. Reflective sexual health communication: Training oncology healthcare professionals to handle the delicacy associated with talking about sexuality.- 7. Training and supervising mental health clinicians using Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis (RICA).- 8. Leveraging Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis to Advance Racial Health Equity.- 9. Concluding remarks.