Forewords to the first edition |
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About the author |
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Acknowledgements |
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Guarantee |
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Introduction to the second edition |
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Consulting skills: five case illustrations |
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How have you been taught previously? |
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Models of skills training: simple, participatory and systematic |
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Assumptions in traditional methods of skills training |
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Models of the consultation |
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Models in medicine: Cartesian dualism and the medical model |
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Task-oriented models of the consultation |
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Behaviour-oriented models |
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Models as transitional objects |
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The Organiser and the Responder |
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Keeping it simple: the consultation as a journey |
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Five checkpoints: connecting, summarising, handing over, safety-netting, housekeeping |
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Five `en route' checkpoints |
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Reaching and recognising the five checkpoints |
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Section B: Skill-building |
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Conscious and unconscious learning |
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The three stages of learning: instruction, imagination and expression |
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Checkpoint 1 (Connecting): rapport-building skills |
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Gambits and curtain-raisers |
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Minimal cues: the physical signs of mental states |
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Representational Systems: Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic |
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The patient's language of self-expression |
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Speech censoring, internal search and the acceptance set |
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Checkpoint 2 (Summarising): listening and eliciting skills |
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Vernacular and medical language |
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Eliciting: what, when and how to elicit, and when to stop |
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |
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Incongruities, non-sequiturs, deletions, distortions and generalisations |
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Interlude: the clinical process in general practice |
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The Ballad of Doctor Busy |
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``Always make a management plan' |
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Checkpoint 3 (Handover): communication skills |
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Strategies for handling over a management plan: negotiating, influencing and gift-wrapping |
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Checkpoint 4 (Safety-netting): predicting skills |
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Three important questions to ask yourself Soap |
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Checkpoint 5 (Housekeeping): taking care of yourself |
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Job stress, and what to do about it |
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Section C: Getting it together |
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Improving by `trying', and improving by `allowing' |
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Integrating conscious and unconscious learning |
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Listening, speaking and thinking |
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Distracting the second head |
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Controlling your attention |
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Zen and the art of the consultation |
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Intellect and intuition: two routes, one goal |
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Appendix 1: An `Inner Consultation' training programme |
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Appendix 2: Annotated bibliography |
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Index |
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