Safety Planning with Parents of Students That Express Suicidality
What communication strategies can mental health providers use to discuss safety planning with parents of students that express suicidality?
Navigating the Conflictual Patient-Clinician Relationship
How can the clinician best navigate the use of uncivil, manipulative, and physically disruptive behavior that can occur among people who are ill, particularly when they feel disregarded?
Health and Persuasion
How does it feel to know your healthcare team might be trying to persuade you? How can clinicians use persuasive techniques without being perceived as being coercive?
Life-Threatening Emergency: Challenging: Discussions with Family/ Beloved Ones
How do we talk to patients and family members about advanced care plans and end-of-life wishes during a pressing, life-threatening emergency?
Decision Aids as Relationship-Building Tools
How can we guide clinicians and patients toward the use of decision aids to foster a trusting relationship as a foundation of effective shared decision-making?
Communication Strategies for Describing the Mind-Body Connection
Is the utilization of a physiologically based cognitive construct helpful to engage a patient in mind-body exploration?
Strategies for Conversations About Treatment and End-of-Life Care
How can a surgeon assess a patient's level of understanding about what the future of their disease progression looks like?
Think Tank Launches Clinician Communication Effectiveness Program
Clinicians have highlighted the program's usefulness in establishing patient trust and increasing confidence in communicating in difficult contexts.
Breaking Bad News and Compassion Fatigue
What is an evidence-based, compassionate way to talk with patients who are uninsured or underinsured?
Take the Shot: Exploring Vaccine Promotion Messaging
What are some ideas for promoting the flu vaccine for this upcoming cycle that could be applied to the eventual promotion of a COVID-19 vaccine?
Communicating Balance and Providing Feedback
What are some effective strategies for bringing up a perspective that challenges the viewpoint of a colleague in a non-threatening way that fosters dialogue?
Addressing and Documenting Patient Frustration and Distress
How do I effectively communicate with frustrated or distressed patients, and how do I document it in the EMR?
No Evidence Vaccination Harms the Shoulder
It's vital to assuage fears and concerns about vaccines and counter them with research that can help people make safe, effective, health decisions.
Measuring Patient Satisfaction with Accuracy
Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of healthcare improvement and has become a powerful catalyst for change.
The Role of Communication Effectiveness in Patient Satisfaction
Communication effectiveness in a clinical environment is associated with a host of benefits.