Relationship power in health care: science of behavior change, decision making, and clinician self-care

The personal interaction between clinician and patient can have a significant impact on all areas of health care. Without adequate training clinicians may inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision processes, difficulty changing health-related behavior, costly variation and derailment of care, extra litigation, and clinician burnout. This text presents a knowledge and skill set for health care and wellness professionals designed to enable then to become competent facilitators of behavior and lifestyle change, information transfer, and medical decision making in collaboration with their patients. This text integrates past health psychology models with recent advances in relationship psychology and interpersonal neurobiology made since the 1990s. Access to online content includes videos of brief medical interviews along with analysis of the strategies and tactics used.
Abstract: The personal interaction between clinician and patient can have a significant impact on all areas of health care. Without adequate training clinicians may inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision processes, difficulty changing health-related behavior, costly variation and derailment of care, extra litigation, and clinician burnout. This text presents a knowledge and skill set for health care and wellness professionals designed to enable then to become competent facilitators of behavior and lifestyle change, information transfer, and medical decision making in collaboration with their patients. This text integrates past health psychology models with recent advances in relationship psychology and interpersonal neurobiology made since the 1990s. Access to online content includes videos of brief medical interviews along with analysis of the strategies and tactics used