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Interview Between The Actress Meg Ryan And The Talk Show Host

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The aim of this essay is to firstly provide a report of the media clip that shows an interview between the actress Meg Ryan and the talk show host, Michael Parkinson and examine the communication strategies employed during the course of the interview and scrutinize their effectiveness. The essay will then explore alternative strategies that could have been utilised and the likely benefits that these could have provided. Finally, the essay will discuss the importance of utilising the correct communication skills when interacting with service users or their carers’ and also, colleagues in order to create and maintain effective therapeutic relationships.
The media clip of the journalist Michael Parkinson interviewing the actress Meg Ryan is a clear demonstration of a variety of communication strategies being employed by parties who are not familiar with one another. In many ways, this mimics the therapeutic conversations that occur between health professionals and patients when they begin working with one another. In these situations, the interviewer must use a range of questioning techniques to encourage the interviewee to provide information. For this to be successful, the participants in the conversation must usually feel comfortable and at ease.
Watching the media clip, it is evident that this was not the case as the interviewee appeared very uncomfortable after only one or two questions. Meg Ryan began paraphrasing the safe ideas repeatedly and began answering with

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