The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care, 4th Edition
by Steven A. Cole, MD, MA, Richard M. Frankel, PhD, MD (Hon) and Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD
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ISBN: 9780323829410
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 520
Imprint: Elsevier
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The interview is the cornerstone of accurate diagnosis and effective care. The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care (formerly The Medical Interview: The Three Function Approach) provides practical, real-world guidance from a relationship-centered, clinical perspective. The fully revised 4th Edition equips you to communicate effectively using the Three Function Approach—Connect, Co-construct, and Collaborate—helping you hone foundational interviewing skills as well as advanced skills for challenging situations. Ideal for early learners as well as experienced healthcare professionals, this highly readable text helps you learn and master straightforward concepts, microskills, and skill-sets you need to provide optimal care for every patient.
Describes three core functions of the clinical interview—connect, co-construct the illness narrative, and collaborate for care—with updated evidence-base to facilitate relationship-centered care throughout day-to-day practice
Introduces three “meta-skills”—connect to self in context, connect with values, and connect non-verbally—higher-order skills to facilitate learning and clinical implementation
Provides a new biopsychosocial tool, “the three pillars,” for co-constructing the clinical narrative: chronology of the present illness, ecology of the illness, and affirmation of strengths and resources
Includes a new section on Professional Identity Formation, with research and clinical perspectives, and related chapters on Mindfulness, Use of Self, and Approach to Patient/Family and Student Concerns—all designed to help clinicians and educators understand transformative role transitions that mature during a practice lifetime
Integrates Motivational Interviewing and Health Coaching with new chapters on Brief Action Planning (BAP), BAP-MI (Advanced Skills), and the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Adds chapters on advanced topics and applications such as using digital technology (computers and virtual visits), presentation and documentation, language and cultural barriers, health literacy, elderly patients, mitigating burnout, team-based care, and applications across health systems
Addresses challenges of chronic and life-limiting illness with new chapters on Optimizing Three Function Presence Over Time, Sharing Difficult News While Exploring Hope, and Collaborating for Care in Discussing Limitations of Treatment
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Section 1 Overview: Organization, Background, and Rationale 1.Organization of the Text 2.Background: Interviews are Everywhere - A Compressed History of the Clinical Interview 3.Rationale: A Unified Model of The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care
Section 2 The Three Functions 4.Function One: Connect 5.Function Two: Co-Construct the Narrative 6.Function Three: Collaborate for Care (Part I) 7.Function Three: Collaborate for Care (Part II) - Brief Action Planning
Section 3 Professional Identity Formation 8.The Three Function Approach to Professional Identity Formation in Healthcare Education and Clinical Care 9.Mindfulness: A Central Quality for Clinical Presence in the Three Function Approach 10.Use of the Self in Clinical Care 11.The Three Function Approach to Patient/Family and Student Concerns
Section 4 Structure of the Interview 12.Overview and Opening: Invest in the Beginning 13.History of the Present Illness: Three Pillars 14.Past Medical History 15.Family History 16.Patient Profile and Social History 17.Review of Systems 18.Closing the Interview: Summarize with Affirmations of Connection and Continuity
Section 5 Digital Technology, Documentation, and Presentation 19.The Three Function Approach to Computer Use and Virtual Visits 20.Documentation and Presentation
Section 6 Advanced Applications 21.The Three Function Approach to Nonverbal Communication 22.Using Motivational Interviewing and Brief Action Planning for Adopting and Maintaining Positive Health Behaviors 23.BAP-MI: A Novel Stepped-Care Integration of Brief Action Planning and Motivational Interviewing to Optimize Outcomes 24.What is the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and Why is it Relevant to the Three Function Approach? 25.BAP-MI in the Three Function Approach: A Stepped-Care Model for Teaching, Learning, and Using Motivational Interviewing and Coaching in Healthcare 26.Cultural Considerations in the Care of the Patient: The Three Function Approach 27.Health Literacy and the Three Function Approach 28.Interviewing Older Adults: The Three Function Approach 29.The Three Function Approach to the Family Interview 30.The Three Function Approach to Interviewing Patients with Unhealthy Substance Use 31.The Three Function Approach to Interviewing the Patient Experiencing Psychosis
Section 7 Chronic and Life-Limiting Illness 32.Optimizing Three Function Presence Over Time: Addressing Stresses and Challenges of Chronic Illness 33.Clinical Interviewing and Chronic Illness: A Three Function Approach 34.Sharing Difficult News While Exploring Hope: The PSC Application of the Three-Function Model 35.Collaborating for Care in Discussing Limitations of Treatment
Section 8 The Three Function Approach in Systems and Society 36.The Three Function Approach to Team-Based Care 37.Acceptance and Cultural Humility in Health Care: Toward Healing and Solutions through a Three Function Understanding 38.Mitigating Burnout Using the Three Function Approach to Relationship-Centered Care: Application in Practice 39.Self, System, and Society: Skills and Mindsets that Help Systems Flourish
Appendices Appendix A Patient Care Triangles Appendix B Tables of Skills
Steven A. Cole, MD, MA, Professor of Psychiatry - Emeritus, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Scientific Education and Psychiatry, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Stony Brook, New York, Richard M. Frankel, PhD, MD (Hon), Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana and Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD, George DeForest Barnett Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Primary Care & Population Health, Palo Alto, California, USA
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