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Pynoos, Jon; Ohta, Russell J. – 1989
The home is clearly the major setting in which care is provided to individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The Caring Home Program was a multi-disciplinary program designed to complement existing efforts to assist caregivers (N=12) with the in-home care of Alzheimer's disease patients. The program components consisted of an assessment of…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intervention
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Carroll, J. Gregory; And Others – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1983
"Clinical Nutrition in an Interdisciplinary Setting" is a course designed to introduce basic nutrition knowledge and concepts of nutritional assessment, counseling, and intervention in the clinical care of patients. Provides a brief course overview and descriptions of its development, use, and preliminary evaluation of the patient simulation…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Higher Education
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Kreps, Gary L. – 1985
An interdisciplinary course in health communication can begin to bridge the gap in knowledge between different health care disciplines and provide epistemological gains for both health care practitioners and communication scholars. Possible topics include patient interviewing, health education, practitioner/patient relationships, health care…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Ethics, Health Education, Higher Education
Story, Marilyn – 1981
This description of the Cedar Valley Hospice program emphasizes palliative and supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families. The history of the hospice movement is outlined along with a description of the Cedar Valley program and the results of a 1980 program evaluation. The appendices contain a statement of the hospice goals and…
Descriptors: Coping, Death, Delivery Systems, Emotional Adjustment
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Sharf, Barbara F.; Poirier, Suzanne – Communication Education, 1988
Emphasizes the usefulness of integrating communicative and literary analyses to study the symbolic and pragmatic aspects of human relationships. Describes a health care course that teaches practitioner-patient communication through the application of communication theory to literary "case studies." Uses a scene from "The Elephant…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Health Personnel, Higher Education
Rae, William A. – 1981
The psychiatric/behavioral science component of the medical school curriculum at Texas A&M University, which involves a pediatric psychology rotation, is described. The content areas of pediatric psychology includes the basic curriculum areas of child/adolescent psychodiagnostic categories, behavioral/developmental disorders, and knowledge of…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Developmental Psychology
Fritz, Paul; And Others – 1980
Recognizing the need for pharmacy students to develop a competence in communication and interviewing proficiencies, the University of Toledo (Ohio) College of Pharmacy and the Department of Communication have developed two communication courses to be taken by all pharmacy students--"Interpersonal Communication" and "Interpersonal Communication in…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Health Personnel