Communication and counselling in the healthcare setting encompasses a broad range of practical skills, self-knowledge and ethical-legal knowledge. The patient-centred approach is adaptable and suitable for use in different cultural healthcare settings.

• Foundational chapters enhance self-awareness, influencing communication styles and improving ethical communication.
• Provides the legal position on key issues such as consent and confidentiality.
• Equips the reader with appropriate skills and techniques to deal with individuals, couples, groups and families.
• Covers the scope of medical and psychosocial challenges a healthcare professional deals with on a daily basis; from human development and its counselling demands through to end of life challenges.
• Examines counselling interventions that should be covered in specific counselling situations.

Patient-centred Communication and Counselling will assist healthcare professionals to develop their competence and increase their confidence in each counselling situation. 

This book will be used in the communication and counselling modules of the Family Medicine course of the MBChB.