ABSTRACT

This unique book presents in a single collection around 50 essays by Dr Launer on reflective practice in medicine, including examples specific to medical education and multiprofessional healthcare. Based on existing contributions to the literature by Dr Launer, the book brings them together in updated form for the first time as a themed collection with an introduction linking the different topics addressed. Coverage includes communication skills, supervision, teamwork and organisational health. In a time of unprecedented demand on healthcare services, educators and practitioners, Dr Launer offers invaluable guidance to a broad audience including community-based GPs, practice nurses and nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physician assistants and paramedics, secondary care staff including consultants and registrars across all specialties, communications skills educators, counsellors and mental health professionals, and health service managers and administrators.

part 1|32 pages

Learning to Communicate

chapter |4 pages

Conversations Inviting Change

chapter |3 pages

The Three-Second Consultation

chapter |3 pages

The Big Picture

chapter |4 pages

Family Matters

chapter |4 pages

Three Kinds of Reflection

chapter |4 pages

What's the Point of Reflective Writing?

chapter |4 pages

Digging Holes and Weaving Tapestries

Two Approaches to the Clinical Encounter

chapter |4 pages

Why You Should Talk to Yourself

Internal Dialogue and Reflective Practice

part 2|29 pages

Concepts and Theories

chapter |4 pages

Thinking in Three Dimensions

chapter |4 pages

Making Meaning

chapter |3 pages

Who Owns Truth?

chapter |4 pages

Double Binds and Strange Loops

chapter |4 pages

The Science of Compassion

chapter |4 pages

Guidelines and Mindlines

chapter |4 pages

Complexity Made Simple

part 3|29 pages

Supervision

chapter |4 pages

Super Vision

chapter |4 pages

What Does Good Supervision Look Like?*

chapter |4 pages

Supervision Quartets

chapter |4 pages

Collaborative Learning Groups

chapter |3 pages

Supervision as Therapy

part 4|32 pages

Emotions and Attitudes

chapter |4 pages

On Kindness

chapter |3 pages

Power and Powerlessness

chapter |4 pages

The Many Faces of Professionalism

chapter |3 pages

Unconscious Incompetence

chapter |4 pages

Clinical Gist

chapter |4 pages

Rudeness and Respect in Medicine

chapter |4 pages

Hunting for Medical Errors

Asking ‘What Have We Got Wrong Today?’

chapter |4 pages

Whatever Happened to Silence?

part 5|25 pages

Techniques and Teamwork

chapter |4 pages

Good Questions

chapter |3 pages

Meetings with Teams

chapter |4 pages

Giving Feedback to Medical Students and Trainees

Rules, Guidance, and Realities

chapter |4 pages

Socratic Questions and Frozen Shoulders*

Teaching without Telling

chapter |4 pages

Concentric Conversations

part 6|29 pages

Narrative Practice

chapter |4 pages

Why Narrative?

chapter |4 pages

Right on Cue

chapter |4 pages

Narrative Diagnosis

chapter |4 pages

Therapeutic Dialogue

chapter |3 pages

Medicine as Poetry

chapter |4 pages

Patient Choice and Narrative Ethics

part 7|27 pages

Provocations

chapter |4 pages

Medically Unexplored Stories

chapter |3 pages

Taking Risks Seriously

chapter |3 pages

Dumpling Soup

chapter |4 pages

Patients as Ethnographers*

chapter |3 pages

Docsplaining

chapter |4 pages

Against Diagnosis