Parent - Professional Partnerships Workshop
(Kim Brossart and Angela Rosenberg)
· Understand the power of inclusion and exclusion in forming parent-professional partnerships
· Enhance reflective listening skills
· Understand the importance of the narrative in creating a parent-professional understanding as well as in achieving patient satisfaction
· Review concepts of how to facilitate optimal understanding in delivering health care messages
· Explore health theory and the concepts of health beliefs in facilitating patient trust, understanding and optimal outcomes
Suggested Readings:
1) Doctors and Nurses, Not Learning Together, New York Times, April, 2014
2) Why Doctors Need Stories, New York Times Opinion; October, 2014 http://nyti.ms/1qQ9Mj6
3) Implications of Childhood Autism for Parental Employment and Earnings; Pediatrics, 2012. April 129(4): 617 – 623
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/4/617.full