Plural Publishing recently released the Second Edition of Adult Audiologic Rehabilitation edited by Ida Fellows Joseph Montano and Jaclyn B. Spitzer. This impressive volume covers topics that represent the current state of AR, including the psychological impact of hearing loss, assessment strategies, current technologies, treatment methodologies, and research needs.
The book places a powerful emphasis on the information necessary to develop excellence in counseling and to apply a client-centered approach to AR.
"An underlying concept of this text is that AR is an expanding aspect of our discipline" states Montano and Spitzer in the book's introduction. "The role of technology in the current practice of AR is apparent, but, as we see in our text, it should be only a means, rather than end, to the larger picture of rehabilitative planning for individual patients."
Many of the book’s chapters are written by Ida Fellows who have attended one of our interactive, collaborative seminars. Moreover, multiple chapters in the book refer directly or indirectly to the Ida Institute’s tools and methods, highlighting their impact on the hearing care profession at large.
In their history of adult audiologic rehabilitation, Patricia A. McCarthy and Jerome G. Apiner mention value of the Ida Institute’s collaborative learning programs and easy-to-use tools.
“In many ways, the work of the Ida Institute exemplified the early values of AR and updated them for contemporary, 21st century practice. By emphasizing an understanding of the human dynamics associated with hearing loss, the Ida Institute has already taken a place in the history of AR as it assists audiologists in developing insightful approaches to working with persons with hearing loss.” - McCarthy and Apiner, History of Audiologic Rehabilitation: A Map for the Future
In their chapter on patient motivation, Ida Fellows John Greer Clark and Carissa Maatman Weiser describe Prochaska and DiClemente’s transtheoretical model of change and the Ida Institute’s Motivation Tools (the Line, the Box, and the Circle). They conclude that time spent focusing on patient motivation during the consultation session is “not only time will spent, but rarely is it a significantly greater amount of time than when we do not address motivation.”
In another chapter, Ida Fellows Jill Preminger and Joseph Montano discuss how audiologists can involve communication partners as full participants in the AR process. When providing an overview of communication-based therapies, Preminger and Montano provide an overview of the Ida Communication Rings and Goal-Sharing for Partners tools. They conclude that these tools can “help the audiologist create a dialogue and develop an ongoing therapeutic relationship conducive to counseling.”
About the Editors
Joseph Montano is a member of the Ida Advisory Board and served as a faculty member for two Ida Institute seminar series: Communication Partnerships and Patient Centered Care: Fluff, Fact or Fiction. He is Chief of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Jaclyn B. Spitzer attended the Ida Institute seminar series on Patient Motivation. She is the Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at Columbia University’s Department of Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery.