TY - JOUR
T1 - Communications skills and moral principles in health care
T2 - Aspects of their relationship and implications for professional education
AU - Barnard, David
PY - 1986/12
Y1 - 1986/12
N2 - There are critical points of convergence between the major moral principles in health care and the requirements for effective communications skills. Developments in these fields have proceeded in relative isolation from each other, with the result that health professions' students often learn ethical principles in the abstract, without clear understanding of their implications for caring behaviors in the clinic. Similarly, communications skills instruction often lacks the firm intellectual foundations that ethics and humanities perspectives can provide. The moral principles that are discussed are beneficence and nonmaleficence, respect for persons, and justice. The overlap and mutual reinforcement between these principles and skills in clinical practice requires collaborative educational efforts by ethics and humanities faculty, communications experts, and clinicians.
AB - There are critical points of convergence between the major moral principles in health care and the requirements for effective communications skills. Developments in these fields have proceeded in relative isolation from each other, with the result that health professions' students often learn ethical principles in the abstract, without clear understanding of their implications for caring behaviors in the clinic. Similarly, communications skills instruction often lacks the firm intellectual foundations that ethics and humanities perspectives can provide. The moral principles that are discussed are beneficence and nonmaleficence, respect for persons, and justice. The overlap and mutual reinforcement between these principles and skills in clinical practice requires collaborative educational efforts by ethics and humanities faculty, communications experts, and clinicians.
KW - Bioethics
KW - Communication
KW - Interpersonal skills
KW - Moral principles
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U2 - 10.1016/0738-3991(86)90101-1
DO - 10.1016/0738-3991(86)90101-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0022861301
SN - 0738-3991
VL - 8
SP - 349
EP - 358
JO - Patient Education and Counseling
JF - Patient Education and Counseling
IS - 4
ER -