Communication Part 2 Flashcards
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- Listen carefully to client’s perspective of health problems
- Explain your understanding and seek validation
- Acknowledge the differences and similarities of your perceptions
- Recommend from a shared understanding
- Negotiate a treatment plan
intercultural communication
sender belongs to one culture and the receiver is from another
-nonverbal and maybe language differences
Gender differences
- men often prefer information and facts (provide structure and information)
- women often prefer more social and emotional interactions (allow women to ask questions)
communication disability
any client who has any impairment in body structure or function that interferes with communication
types of communication deficits
- hearing loss
- vision loss
- impaired verbal communication secondary to speech and language deficits
- impaired cognition
- communication deficits associates with some mental disorders
- environmental deprivation as related to illness
vision loss in children
lack nonverbal cues such as facial expressions that encourage development of communication skills
traditional visual screening cannot be done reliably until age 3
vision loss in older adults
increased likelihood of visual disturbances
difficulty to accommodate shifts from far to near
macular degeneration
expressive aphasia
understand what is being said but cannot express thoughts/feelings in words
receptive aphasia
difficulties in receiving and processing oral messages
global aphasia
difficulty with both expression and reception of messages