Question 1: Traditionally, health professionals have had more control over medical conversations than patients have had. What factors contribute to De prevalence of provider-centered communication?
Describe some of the communication patterns involved. How do patients' behaviors contribute to these dynamics? How do care providers' behaviors contribute?

Question 2: What is therapeutic privilege? What guidelines would you suggest for using this privilege?

Question 3:What actions by patients and care providers might qualify as transgressions? What are some methods for handling transgression attempts? Provide a few examples.

Question 4: How could patients and care providers lessen the likelihood of doorknob disclosures?

Question 5:According to the disclosure decision-making model, what three considerations affect whether people disclose nonvisible health concerns to someone else?

Question 6:Compare a "rhetoric of passivity" with a "rhetoric of agency." What are some communication strategies caregivers and patients can use to accomplish collaborative interpretation? Apply these to an example of your own.

Question 7: Compare the assumptions of physician-centered and collaborative communication. How is the care provider's role different in each model? How is the patient's role different? What are some of the reasons that many people are shifting from provider-centered to collaborative communication?

Question 8: What are the assumptions and techniques of motivational interviewing? Would you enjoy being part of such an interview? Why or why not?

Question 9:Think of a health concern you have experienced personally. When asked about it, what does your narrative include? What elements of the narrative are most important in terms of your feelings about it and its importance in your life? Now analyze the experience in terms of integrative health theory.
In what ways did you experience alignment? Resistance?