The evidence is extensive. Good communication has clear benefits for the clinician. Clinicians who interview well have a number of advantages, including the capability of gathering a full data base and of interviewing efficiently. Easy-to-read, compelling, and comprehensive in coverage, Pediatric Interviewing: A Practical, Relationship-Based Approach outlines effective strategies for interviewing parents and children efficiently. Topics covered include engaging patients and families, efficiently and smoothly obtaining a history of present illness and making a good differential diagnosis
How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
Leading speaker on innovation and creativity Paul Sloane helps readers think in powerful new ways. It shows how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation, and other areas to become more creative. Readers will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve their memory, sell their ideas, and win arguments. The book is packed with practical methods to put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics, and illustrations.
Measuring Public Relationships: The Data-Driven Communicator's Guide to Success
The author takes a "cookbook" approach, providing specific steps to measure all forms of public relationships, from social media measurement to tracking relationships with local communities, industry analysts and social networks. It relies heavily on the relationship theories of James and Laurie Grunig and Linda Hon but translates the theory into an easy to read practical guidebook.
Color by Betty Edwards: Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This new guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations.
