Communication skills in psychiatry training.

CONCLUSIONS: The report reveals significant gaps exist and highlights the need for advanced communication skills training for mental health clinicians, particularly about communicating a diagnosis and/or prognosis of schizophrenia. A new communication skills training framework for psychiatry is described, based on that used in oncology as a model. This model promotes applied skills and processes that are easily adapted for use in psychiatry, providing an effective platform for the development of similar training programs for psychiatric clinical practice.
PMID: 26104774 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - June 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ditton-Phare P, Halpin S, Sandhu H, Kelly B, Vamos M, Outram S, Bylund CL, Levin T, Kissane D, Cohen M, Loughland C Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research