Hampton Press Communication Series: Health Communication - Böcker

Reducing dangerous drinking on college campuses has received a great deal of attention from prevention specialists, researchers, and college health professionals. A variety of efforts have focused on the problem. This book describes an innovative way to approach the problem of dangerous drinking among college students and describes an award winning prevention campaign.

Reducing dangerous drinking on college campuses has received a great deal of attention from prevention specialists, researchers, and college health professionals. A variety of efforts have focused on the problem. This book describes an innovative way to approach the problem of dangerous drinking among college students and describes an award winning prevention campaign.

This book addresses the question of how health care teams function on a daily basis through an innovative ethnography of communication in an interdisciplinary geriatric team. To illustrate the complexity of teamwork, backstage communication processes among team members are richly described, their effects on frontstage communication with patients delineated,m and a model of embedded teamwork developed. The presentation enables readers to explore the relationships among epistemology, methodology, and writing practices in health care.

This book addresses the question of how health care teams function on a daily basis through an innovative ethnography of communication in an interdisciplinary geriatric team. To illustrate the complexity of teamwork, backstage communication processes among team members are richly described, their effects on frontstage communication with patients delineated,m and a model of embedded teamwork developed. The presentation enables readers to explore the relationships among epistemology, methodology, and writing practices in health care.

This collection of readings is designed to be used as a supplemental text in health communication - specifically a course concerned with explaining current health communication theory and applied research in health communication. As the area of health communication has grown in recent years, there has been an increased need among health communication instructors for a resource that offers in-depth coverage of applied health communication topics beyond what is currently available in the leading health communication textbooks. The contributors are highly recognized and respected scholars in cutting-edge areas of health communication. In their chapters they draw on their extensive experience conducting applied communication research in a variety of health-related settings.

This collection of readings is designed to be used as a supplemental text in health communication - specifically a course concerned with explaining current health communication theory and applied research in health communication. As the area of health communication has grown in recent years, there has been an increased need among health communication instructors for a resource that offers in-depth coverage of applied health communication topics beyond what is currently available in the leading health communication textbooks. The contributors are highly recognized and respected scholars in cutting-edge areas of health communication. In their chapters they draw on their extensive experience conducting applied communication research in a variety of health-related settings.

This book uncovers the existence of unconscious communications in our small talk that possess a remarkable potential to emotionally cure. When we are engaged in any prolonged spontaneous communications, we can unconsciously meet our most basic need and rid ourselves of an emotional problem we might have. Our small talk is the most emotionally important talking that we do, for it can resolve more emotional problems and provide emotional strength, than by any other means.