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â ObivoV brac ?vV, eJ de teJcnh makrhv Life is short, [the] art long -Hippocrates Pediatric Interviewing: A Practical, Relationship Based Approach by James Binder is filled with a unique blend of wisdom, experience, and evidence, which will serve as a guide and as a reminder that what comes first in the care of the patient is the language and the silences that are shared between patient and physician. The medical interview quickly establishes the type of caring relati- ship the two will share. In this age of electronic medical records, pay-forperformance, and evidence-based medicine it is easy to lose sight that medicine is fundamentally about one person who has knowledge and experience providing care for another individual who is asking for help. How the physician organizes his or her interactions has an important impact on the experience and o- comes for both the physician and for the patient. Dr. Binder presents a conceptual framework with which to approach interviewing and illustrates this framework with pr- tical examples from years of teaching and practice. Physicia- intraining will find this book filled with wisdom and much needed recommendations about how to approach the medical interview. For those of us who have been in practice a number of years, Dr. Binder´s book can serve as a refreshing opportunity to reflect in detail about something many of us take for granted - the c- plexity of the medical interview.

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - The Shut-Down Interview and Relationships
Chapter 2 - The Medical Interview: The Opening Phase
Talking with children
Chapter 3 - History of Present Illness
Chapter 4 - Discussing Diagnosis and Treatment with Families during the Concluding Phase of the Interview
Chapter 5 - Assessment of Family Functioning/Talking to Families
Chapter 6 - The Well-Child Visit
Chapter 7 - Primary Care and Child Mental Health
Chapter 8 - Sensitive Topics: Suicidality, Child Abuse, Sexuality, Substance Abuse
Chapter 9 - Supporting Families Expressing Grief while Giving Bad News
Chapter 10 - Challenging Patients
Chapter 11 - Wandering Interviews
Chapter 12 - Using Experiential Techniques to Teach Interviewing Skills
Chapter 13 - Glossary of Terms
Chapter 14 - Appendices
A. Increasing Efficiency while obtaining a History of Present Illness
B. Chonological Assessment of Suicidal Events (CASE)
C. Sample Curriculum for Teaching Interviewing Skills in a Small Program Structure

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Aus den Rezensionen:

"... sein einfach zu lesender, überzeugender und umfassender Leitfaden umreißt wirksame Strategien für die Befragung von Eltern und Kindern. ... Letztendlich behandelt das Buch alle Aspekte des pädiatrischen Interviews. Mit klaren, praktischen Tipps und einer breiten Palette von gezielten Fallbeispielen wird das Buch seinem Titel vollumfänglich gerecht. ..." (in: Pädiatrie up2date, March/2012, Vol. 7, Issue 1 S. 5)

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