Interpersonal Communication Analysis

Communicating therapeutically typically uses a combination of techniques such as empathy, touch, active listening, clarifying and open-ended questioning as noted by Day, J., Levett-Jones, T., & Kenny, R. (2015). Ultimately, it aims to create a space in which the

The potential impacts of using specialist communication skills and techniques in the counselling setting fall into a broad spectrum. When counsellors use the active listening skill and unconditional positive regard, clients will feel encouraged and supported in telling their story allowing them to convey their feelings. This can also be supported and further enhanced through the use of reflection of feeling, which gives the client an opportunity to examine, decipher and understand their own emotions. The

During today's session, client and therapist worked on establishing a therapeutic rapport by discussing roles and responsibilities as his therapist and addressing clients goals and intentions for therapy. Client states that he plans to complete individual therapy and work towards getting his family back

In the first session, I would invite the husband to share his stories. I would see the client-as-expert. In summarizing and reflecting the husband’s stories back to him, I would demonstrate use of externalize language by reflecting back the husband’s descriptions, but making changes such as not describing the husband as ‘being depressed’, rather as having an external ‘depression’ who can ‘trick him’. To support this work I would create a visual summary of the goals of the session, in which I would identify an external ‘depression’ that I hoped to notice, question, and overcome. In the second session, I would collaborate with the husband to give his own label or name to depression. I would encourage the husband to add a preposition to the characteristic or behavior that he would like to change. As a substitute for “I am depressed,” the husband would be encouraged to say, “I am currently living ‘with’ depression. I would then ask a question such as, “when did you notice that depression first came into your life?” I would also continue to communicate about the externalized concern as a separate unit with statements such as, “what have you previously done to encourage

Asking open-ended questions and summarizing what she said. An example would be “what I hear you telling me is that you have a stressful job. How do you handle the stress?” Finding out what triggers my client, we can now focus on where to start the healing process. Showing

Active listening is very important to me in communicating with your client. You can get great answers and details with open-ended questions. Listening to body language is just as important as verbally communicating. Nonverbal cues are to be taken seriously and listened with an urge to act on any violent intentions. Paraphrasing or summarizing is the feedback clients, listening out for the therapist response. The client tells the therapist their situation and waits to see if he or

During this week I met with the social worker at Cherry Health. We participated in role plays where I played as therapist while she played as a patient who had a husband that cheated on her and she contracted a sexually transmitted disease. I think this interaction was insightful because I learned about the proper ways to communicate with clients in this particular situation. What the social worker suggested is that I valid the clients' feelings and be more genuine with the client. I think I was more focused on asking what she was going to do about the situation rather than validating her feelings. In addition, she told me that it was okay to express to the client how I would feel in that same situation. Also, she stated that I can use phrases such as “that sucks”. I am still learning how to effectively communicate with patients. I know every client is different, therefore I have to learn more about how to read people.

Within module 3, we covered several important leadership concepts that will assist in my personal growth and development as a leader. The concept that stands out to me as the most important is Knowing Myself within Interpersonal Communication, but specifically monitoring my own actions or Self-Monitoring. I feel that self-monitoring is the most important concept from this module because in a general sense, the use or misuse of self monitoring can add or detract from the meaning of a message while communicating. I have come to find that sometimes while communicating, I have terrible nonverbal signals and poor language and these faults can greatly influence a message that I am trying to pass in a negative way. In order to have more effective

As a Film, Media and Video communication major, I have been learn and gaining value skills that would help in future job opportunities. My interpersonal communication skills helps me connection with not only in a professional workplace, but communities as well. My experience noted in my resume that different help further develop this skill. My organization and leaderships skills will really benefit this position because I am able to multitask while keeping everything in order.

Mrs. Kvalo feels strongly that leadership must be physically present within the building. “If you want to lead, you must be present and visible,” Mrs. Kvalo states (personal communication, April 11, 2015). During passing periods, lunch periods, and at the end of the school day Mrs. Kvalo positions herself in a visible location. She believes that being in a consistent location, provides a sense of well-being and safety for the staff and students. Additionally, she attends a majority of after school activities and events. It is not unusually see Mrs. Kvalo dress in the school colors and cheering on our schools athletic and performance teams. As she stated in our interview, “I’m our biggest cheerleader!” (personal communication, April 11, 2015).

To have a complete Interpersonal communication, all steps are essential. The senders encode the message, transmits using a channel and receiver decodes and responds. Personally, my biggest challenge is lack of compassion and for a receiver, I come across direct, insensitive and structured. I get to the point and remove the small talk that will smooth out a conversation and focus on getting results or answers to a situation. As a receiver, my challenge is to pay attention to small details. Especially, to long drawn out messages. I miss important information skimming through it. Some challenges are also due to selective listening, overload, judgmental and other related noise.

The process of working on this paper and project felt odd, since we were all had different time schedules, and there was a moment where I felt our communication with each other was faulty. I became somewhat nervous about the process. However, I have worked on other projects for classes were the communication was absolutely zero and that made me feel extremely terrible, working on this project felt easier than that project. Anyhow, there were some struggle mainly due to everyone’s divergent schedules, but we pulled it off. What I learned about interpersonal communication is that communication with others can be difficult, but when we work together, it seems like a thing of beauty. What I learned about myself was that I like to know what is

December 31, 2016 about 8 o’clock I got a text from my friend. It wasn't unusual because she always text me this late but this conversation wasn't like any conversation we had this conversation was spine chilling. She text me and said “Hey lamia can I use your Facebook for something” me being a good friend I am I gave her my password and thought nothing else about it. I was on the phone with my bestfriend when I get some messages from my friend,Kelly, that said “Wow” so I texted back and said “What?” But I never got a response little did I know this would be the end everything would change from the moment on. As days went on she started acting different by looking at my messages and not texting back. I saw her at the store and spoke to her

As an OT practitioner, I would make sure that the time spent together would allow for great communication. It important to remember that her disability does not affect her ability to read others actions. Samantha is probably great at picking up on nonverbal communication aspects such as eye contact and facial expressions (O’Brien & Hussey, 2012). For our therapeutic relationship, it is extra important to make sure that my nonverbal communication actions are not misleading toward Samantha. Moreover, the therapeutic relationship described developed between Samantha and myself as an OT practitioner would be different than a therapeutic relationship with another client. It is imperative to allow Samantha to help develop her goals and strategies along with understanding how Samantha feels. I would place myself in Samantha’s shoes, considering her situation and her life as a wife and mother. Considering Samantha’s goals, motivations, and characteristics the relationship above describes what is best for her. By implementing the use of self-principles, self-awareness, trust, empathy, communication, and active listening, the quality of the relationship is formed (O’Brien & Hussey,

In the preface of the material I understand, and see the many different techniques, and counseling methods. The Preface states and says, that therapy is composed of communication. However I never knew how much emotional exchanges, that will take place between you and the client. The guidelines for implementing role play exercises, I like learning about that, and it would seem very useful, but I have never did it my self, so I will try this practice however I do not like to talk about things that, might bother me or upset me. In addition I never really like to talk about my self.