The Fifteen Minute Hour: Efficient and Effective Patient-Centered Consultation Skills, Sixth Edition

by Marian R. Stuart, Joseph A. Lieberman

Overview

The Fifteen Minute Hour is well-established as a classic text, providing invaluable support for primary care practitioners aiming to increase patient satisfaction without adding significantly to the length of a visit. This sixth edition continues to emphasise a patient-centred approach to help practitioners enhance the therapeutic relationship with their patients. With a renewed focus on wellness and health promotion, the book offers simple and effective techniques to solve or prevent psychological and behavioural problems manifested in the consultation. The Fifteen Minute Hour has become essential reading around the world, and this sixth edition is completely updated with brand new case material based on real-world consultations, additional techniques for managing chronic conditions including pain, and new references substantiating the efficacy of the authors’ methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351017893
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/03/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	541 KB

About the Author

Marian R. Stuart, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine and Community Health at
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Joseph A. Lieberman III, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Sidney
Kimmel Medical College (formerly known as Jefferson Medical College) at
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa.

Table of Contents

1 The BATHE Technique key to making your practice Patient Centered. 2 Expanding the context  of the Office Visit or Medical Consultation. 3 Promoting Wellness and Managing Chronic Conditions. 4 Small Interventions That Have Large Impact. 5 Therapeutic Pearls for Brief Counseling Sessions. 6 Structuting a  Fifteen-Minute Counseling Session. 7 Managing Difficult Patients:  Their pain and yours. 8 Accenting the Positive: Putting an Affirmative Spin on the BATHE Technique. 9 How to Handle Special Situations, Staff, and Assure Self-Preservation. 10 Wrapping Up – Integrating Treatments, Modifying Lifestyles, Getting Results. Appendix A: Twelve Good Questions and Three Good Answers for All Seasons. Appendix B: Recommended Books for Patients. Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Description: This is the sixth edition of a book designed to help primary care physicians focus on an office visit. Previous editions of The Fifteen Minute Hour have come with a variety of subtitles, such as "Therapeutic Talk in Primary Care" and "Practical Therapeutic Intervention in Primary Care." The fifth edition was published in 2015.
Purpose: This book provides strategies for clinicians to stay focused on the issues the patient wishes to discuss while continuing to obtain the needed information for diagnosis and treatment.
Audience: The audience is young clinicians and older, more experienced practitioners who are coping with shorter office visit times and crowed schedules.
Features: The book continues to expound on the BATHE concept (Background situation, patient Affect, what is most Troubling for the patient, how the patient is Handling the problem, and the physician's Empathy). Chapters discuss understanding the context of the office visit and the social aspects of the patient-physician interaction; how to promote wellness during the visit; pearls for brief counseling sessions; managing difficult patients; and wrapping up the visit and integrating treatments.
Assessment: The time constraints in modern outpatient care have become onerous and this is a valuable resource in developing personal strategies to maximize clinicians' time with patients, to stay on focus, and to minimize the risk of clinician burnout.

Doody's Review Service

The book continues to expound on the BATHE concept (Background situation, patient Affect, what is most Troubling for the patient, how the patient is Handling the problem, and the physician's Empathy). Chapters discuss understanding the context of the office visit and the social aspects of the patient-physician interaction; how to promote wellness during the visit; pearls for brief counseling sessions; managing difficult patients; and wrapping up the visit and integrating treatments.

The time constraints in modern outpatient care have become onerous and this is a valuable resource in developing personal strategies to maximize clinicians' time with patients, to stay on focus, and to minimize the risk of clinician burnout.

-Vincent F Carr, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)

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