Art of Active Listening: Delivering Emotional Charged News

  • 04 Oct 2012
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Big Fish Grill on the Riverfront, 720 Justison Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Helen Meldrum, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology for the Program in Health Sciences and Industry/Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., will present “Art of Active Listening: Delivering Emotional Charged News.”

This is a non-promotional sponsored talk by Pfizer and the learning objectives are:

 

Enhance participant communication skills when discussing a new and/or serious diagnosis and handling difficult questions

 

Apply empathic counseling skills with a patient facing serious health diagnosis

 

Formulate sensitive response to patients adjusting to a difficult prognosis

 

Support patients so they are better able to understand their medical status and participate in their own care