After the diagnosis: how patients react and how to help them cope /
Gary McGlain.
- New York : Delmar Cengage Learning, 2011.
- xix,360 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Include appendixes and index.
Contents: Starting the conversation about a medical diagnosis -- Recognizing initial coping styles -- Acknowledging emotional reactions -- Acknowledging and confronting the fear factor -- Emotions and health-care decision making -- Helping newly diagnosed patients communicate with health-care professionals -- Encouraging patients to gather information -- Developing a support plan with patients -- Coping with effects on self-image -- Connecting with a sense of meaning -- Communicating with family members and caregivers -- Creating a vision future -- When diagnoses involve the end of life -- Recognizing personal emotions as health-care professionals .
97881435495692
Include appendixes and index.
Contents: Starting the conversation about a medical diagnosis -- Recognizing initial coping styles -- Acknowledging emotional reactions -- Acknowledging and confronting the fear factor -- Emotions and health-care decision making -- Helping newly diagnosed patients communicate with health-care professionals -- Encouraging patients to gather information -- Developing a support plan with patients -- Coping with effects on self-image -- Connecting with a sense of meaning -- Communicating with family members and caregivers -- Creating a vision future -- When diagnoses involve the end of life -- Recognizing personal emotions as health-care professionals .
97881435495692