Introduction
In this study, the unit of analysis is based on individuals, because different people have different mental health needs and therefore it’s better if they were addressed separately.
In the past the physician-patient relationship involved the patients’ dependence on the physicians’ professionalism believing that the physicians knew everything even without obtaining relevant information from the patient. The patients ended up being disappointed as they realized that their preference were overridden or even ignored. This physician-patient relationship has evolved to include patient involvement in decision-making as it respects the patient’s views depending on his culture and believes. Communicating with mentally illed people can be …show more content…
These children might experience obsessive-compulsive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety and depression. These mental health problems might lead to inappropriate social skills like reduced interaction with other people, reduced nonverbal skills like eye contact; poor posture and reduced facial expression, communication deficits affecting comprehension and expression and inability to swallow properly. Nurses and psychiatrists have to apply the process of therapeutic interpersonal relationships in provision of care to mental health clients who are in need of psychosocial intervention and interpersonal communication techniques are the tools for this intervention (Bebbington, 2000). For a nurse to have a good therapeutic relationship, she must possess the following characteristics: rapport, trust, respect, genuineness and …show more content…
Dickstein, 1997). It is best if you sit facing the client, observe his posture, lean forward towards the client, maintain eye contact then relax. After that, understand what the client was trying to put across, it is important to give back a feedback as the client could use this to modify the issue at hand.
Non therapeutic communication techniques involve giving reassurance, rejection of some of the clients ideas/behaviors, passing judgment on the clients ideas is they are right or wrong, advising the client basing on what’s best for him/her, probing for more hidden information, requesting for explanations, interpretation of what the client shared with you. In cases like bipolar and depression, patients might not have lost their language skills but reduced non-verbal communication, which interferes with their social
In this study, the unit of analysis is based on individuals, because different people have different mental health needs and therefore it’s better if they were addressed separately.
In the past the physician-patient relationship involved the patients’ dependence on the physicians’ professionalism believing that the physicians knew everything even without obtaining relevant information from the patient. The patients ended up being disappointed as they realized that their preference were overridden or even ignored. This physician-patient relationship has evolved to include patient involvement in decision-making as it respects the patient’s views depending on his culture and believes. Communicating with mentally illed people can be …show more content…
These children might experience obsessive-compulsive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety and depression. These mental health problems might lead to inappropriate social skills like reduced interaction with other people, reduced nonverbal skills like eye contact; poor posture and reduced facial expression, communication deficits affecting comprehension and expression and inability to swallow properly. Nurses and psychiatrists have to apply the process of therapeutic interpersonal relationships in provision of care to mental health clients who are in need of psychosocial intervention and interpersonal communication techniques are the tools for this intervention (Bebbington, 2000). For a nurse to have a good therapeutic relationship, she must possess the following characteristics: rapport, trust, respect, genuineness and …show more content…
Dickstein, 1997). It is best if you sit facing the client, observe his posture, lean forward towards the client, maintain eye contact then relax. After that, understand what the client was trying to put across, it is important to give back a feedback as the client could use this to modify the issue at hand.
Non therapeutic communication techniques involve giving reassurance, rejection of some of the clients ideas/behaviors, passing judgment on the clients ideas is they are right or wrong, advising the client basing on what’s best for him/her, probing for more hidden information, requesting for explanations, interpretation of what the client shared with you. In cases like bipolar and depression, patients might not have lost their language skills but reduced non-verbal communication, which interferes with their social