The Fifteen Minute Hour: Therapeutic Talk in Primary Care (4th edition)

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

ISSN: 0952-6862

Article publication date: 1 May 2009

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(2009), "The Fifteen Minute Hour: Therapeutic Talk in Primary Care (4th edition)", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 22 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2009.06222cae.002

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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The Fifteen Minute Hour: Therapeutic Talk in Primary Care (4th edition)

The Fifteen Minute Hour: Therapeutic Talk in Primary Care (4th edition)

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 22, Issue 3

Marian R Stuart and Joseph A Lieberman III,Radcliffe Publishing,2008,ISBN-10 1 84619 288 9; ISBN-13 9781846192883

Keywords: Patient relationships, Primary healthcare education, Healthcare improvement

By incorporating therapeutic talk into daily practice, family doctors can solve and often prevent many psychological and behavioral problems. The approaches described in this text are designed not only to enhance the therapeutic relationship, but also to make practice more productive and pleasurable. In particular, they can be applied in the context of a standard length consultation, rather than lengthy therapy sessions.

Developed over two decades and four editions, the overwhelming consensus is that the strategies described in this book work: patients respond, practitioners save time, and provider-patient relationships become richer. The techniques will certainly increase readers’ abilities to recognize and treat common emotional problems. The approach is pragmatic, flexible and easily learned, and it works!

“The fact that this book has progressed to a fourth edition confirms the usefulness of these techniques to those of us in primary care. Although the basic concepts presented are similar to earlier editions, much new material has been added to make these principles and techniques more useful to the primary care health professional. This book is a valuable resource for primary care physicians and all health professionals involved in providing primary care to patients. It contains many simple and practical techniques that are useful in practice.”

Contents include:

  • “The body-mind and the role of the primary care practitioner”.

  • “Patients, stress, and the office visit”.

  • “Cognitive behavioural therapy and other practical therapeutic interventions”.

  • “Starting with the BATHE technique”.

  • “Rationale and techniques for fifteen-minute therapy”.

  • “Agenda for the fifteen-minute counselling session”.

  • “Therapeutic interventions for difficult patient situations”.

  • “Accenting the positive: putting an affirmative spin on the BATHE technique”.

  • “Handling special situations, staff, and assuring self-preservation”.

  • “Wrapping up – integrating treatments, modifying lifestyles, getting results”.

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