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ISBN: 9780323829441
Copyright: 2027
Publication Date: 07-10-2026
Page Count: 376
Imprint: Elsevier
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The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care: The Three Function Approach - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 4th Edition

by Steven A. Cole, MD, MA, Richard M. Frankel, PhD, MD (Hon) and Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD

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cover image - The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care: The Three Function Approach - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780323829441
Copyright: 2027
Publication Date: 07-10-2026
Page Count: 376
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $38.99
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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.
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    • 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
  • 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 Health Care
    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 Prepare-Share-Care (PCS) 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

    Appendix
    A. Patient Care Triangles
    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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