Communication in Health

Comunicação na Saúde

Curse code:9548308

Maria do Rosário de Fátima Martins Dias

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

• Develop the applicability of theoretical and practical communication competences of Dentists when applied to their quotidian practices;
• Approach the problematic of relationship doctor-patient in the health context, from a perspective patient centred;
• Enable the dentist to teach the patient about strategies of self prevention in oral health;
• Promote the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and professional behaviours of students that facilitate an effective interaction with patients, relatives, colleagues and other health professionals;
• Promote the contact with typical situations and with medical practice in a virtual office, in order to enable the student to face communication barriers that settle in contact with the patient;
• Planning and executing, with efficiency, an anamnesis interview to a patient that aims to integrate information from de disease path, in the Sick Person history life.

Syllabus:

1. Theoretical fundamentals of interpersonal communication.
2. The setting for consultation/patient treatment.
3. The information provided in Health Contexts.
4. Relationship Dentist-Patient/Strategies of desensitization of fear and anxiety.

Suggested Bibliography:

• Aldrich C (1999). The medical interview: gateway to the doctor-patient relationship. New York: The Parthenon Publishing Group.
• Dias MR (1993). Uma Óptica para a Comunicação. Divulgação, 28, Out, 37 - 40.
• Dias, M.R. (1993). Médico - Doente: A Pedagogia na Relação. In : Leandro S. Almeida & Iolanda Ribeiro (Eds.). A Organização dos Serviços de Psicologia em Portugal. Açores: APPORT.
• Dias, M.R. & Amorim, A. (Eds) (2000). Clinica Dentária Integrada: Contributos Bio-Psico-Sociais. Caparica: Egas Moniz Publicações.
• Dickson, D. A., Hargie, O. & Morrow, N. C. (1993). Communication Skills Training for Health Professionals. An Instructor’s Handbook. London: Chapman & Hall.
• Roter DL, Hall JA (1992). Doctors talking with patients/Patients talking with doctors. Improving communication in medical visits. London: Auburn House.
• Taylor KM (1988). Telling bad news: Physicians and the disclosure of undesirable information. Sociology of Health and Illness, 10, 2, 109 -132.