Handbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care

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Overview
Communication is a core skill for medical professionals when treating patients, and cancer and palliative care present some of the most challenging clinical situations. This book provides a comprehensive curriculum to help oncology specialists optimize their communication skills.

Full Details
This comprehensive text provides clinicians with practical and evidence-based guidelines to achieve effective, patient-centered communication in the areas of cancer and palliative care. Written by an outstanding panel of international experts, it integrates empirical findings with clinical wisdom, draws on historical approaches and presents a state-of-the-art curriculum for applied communication skills training for the specialist oncologist, surgeon, nurse and other multi-disciplinary team members involved in cancer care today. In this book communication is broken down into key modules that cover the life-cycle of cancer care. They include coverage of diagnosis and treatment including clinical trials, empathic support in response to distress, transition to survivorship or palliative therapies, discussion of prognosis, conduct of family meetings, and care of the dying. Complementary training of patients in their communication with the doctor completes the interactive dyad. The art of teaching, impact of gender and power in the consultation and the ethical context are carefully considered. Special communication challenges include discussion of genetic risk, rehabilitative and salvage surgery, promotion of treatment adherence, unanticipated adverse outcomes, intercultural issues, fertility and sexuality. The value of decision aides, question prompt lists, audio-recording of consultations and use of the internet is illustrated. By looking across the full spectrum of disciplines involved in the multidisciplinary team, discipline-specific issues are considered by experts in each field. In this manner, the needs of patients and their relatives are evaluated, including paediatric and geriatric populations. To achieve all of this, theoretical models are examined from the medical school to the highly specialized practice, facilitation training and actor training are made explicit, and international approaches to communication skills training are compared and contrasted. Finally, research tools that assist in coding cancer consultations, evaluating training courses, and employing mixed methods in studies aid the reader in providing clear and sensitive communication when handling challenging situations whilst treating cancer sufferers and palliative care patients.

Contents
SECTION A: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION STUDIES IN CANCER AND PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
1. The history of communications skills knowledge and training
2. The art of teaching communication skills
3. Theoretical models of communication skill training
4. Shared treatment decision-making and the use of decision aids
5. The ethics of communication in cancer and palliative care
6. Gender, power and nonverbal communication
7. Medical student training in communication skills
8. Overview of interventions to enhance cancer patients' participation in medical consultations
SECTION B: A CORE CURRICULUM FOR COMMUNICATION SKILLS TRAINING FOR ONCOLOGY AND PALLIATIVE CARE
9. Breaking bad news
10. Discussing prognosis and communicating risk
11. Communication training to achieve shared treatment decisions
12. Responding to difficult emotions
13. Denial and communication
14. Communicating with relatives/companions about cancer care
15. Conducting a family meeting
16. Communication about coping as a survivor
17. Dealing with cancer recurrence
18. Communication about transitioning patients to palliative care
19. End-of-life communication training
SECTION C: A SPECIALTY CURRICULUM FOR ONCOLOGY
20. Enrolment in clinical trials
21. Working as a multidisciplinary team
22. Communicating genetic risk
23. Rehabilitative and salvage surgery
24. Discussing unproven therapies
25. The effect of internet use on the doctor-cancer patient relationship
26. Promoting treatment adherence
27. Communication strategies and skills for optimum pain control
28. Discussing adverse outcomes with patients
29. Clinical perspectives on shared decision-making
30. Audio-recording important consultations for patients and their familities - putting evidence into practice
31. Working with interpreters and achieving culturally competent communication
32. Challenges in communicating with ethnically diverse populations
33. Intercultural communication in palliative care
34. Communicating about infertility risks
35. Communicating about sexuality in cancer care
SECTION D: COMMUNICATION ISSUES ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
36. The challenges and rewards of communication skills training for oncology and palliative care nurses in the United Kingdom
37. Ambulatory nurses responding to depression
38. Social work support in crisis
39. Communication in radiology
40. Communication in surgical oncology
41. Communication in non-surgical oncology
42. Palliative medicine: communication to promote life near the end-of-life
43. Communication issues in pastoral care and chaplaincy
44. Communication in oncology pharmacy: the challenge of the treatment adherence
45. Psychosocial program development
46. Communication challenges with the elderly
47. Issues for cognitively impaired elderly patients
48. Communicating with children when a parent is dying
49. Creative arts in oncology
SECTION E: EDUCATION AND TRAINING
50. Learner-centered communication
51. Facilitating skills practice in communication role play sessions: essential elements and training facilitators
52. The role of the actor in medical education
53. Training patients to reach their communication goals: a concordance perspective
SECTION F: INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES IN COMMUNICATION TRAINING
54. The OncoTalk model
55. The Swiss model
56. The Australian model
57. The United Kingdom general practitioner and pallaitve care model
58. Communication skills training and research: the Brussels experience
SECTION G: RESEARCH IN CANCER COMMUNICATION
59. Evaluating communication skills training courses
60. Qualitative approaches to clinician-patient communication
61. Doctor-patient communication interaction analysis systems
62. The Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS): applicability within the context of cancer and palliative care