Communication - Practical Health Psychology

2020-02-042025-11-04Communication, Motivation, Self-regulation

Are your clients being defensive? If so, self-affirmation may help.

Peter Harris and Ian Hadden, The Self-Affirmation Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK Have you ever been reluctant to face up to something you’d rather ignore? Maybe your fondness for something bad for you that you eat […]

2019-09-072025-12-01Communication

Raising weight in a consultation

By Jane Ogden, University of Surrey, UK Weight is a tricky problem to talk about in a consultation. Some patients may be sick of hearing the words ‘You could lose some weight’ every time they visit the clinic: regardless of […]

2019-01-072025-11-04Communication

Patient talk: What the doctor clearly says, and the patient clearly does not understand

By Anne Marie Plass, University Medical Center of Göttingen, Germany Sometime ago a dermatologist who works as a psoriasis (a chronic skin disorder) -specialist in a university hospital, complained to me about many patients who do not adhere to the […]

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