Midterm Flashcards
What is the KASH model ? What does it stand for?
4 skills needed to communicate effectively:
- KNOWLEDGE - gaining knowledge and remaining current in practice
- AWARENESS - increasing awareness of how one communicates
- SKILLS - practicing new skills
- HABIT - practicing until it becomes habitual
What are 5 integral qualities a dietitian/helping a professional should have?
- trustworthy
- honest
- reliable
- good listener
- caring
Give 5 points about a prescriptive approach.
Give 5 points about a patient-centred approach
Prescriptive approach:
- RD advises, teaches, informs, instructs
- Expectation of compliance
- its based on authority and expertise
- RD in control of the session
- CAN BE EFFECTIVE FOR SOME, BUT HAS LIMITS
Patient-centred approach
- takes patient into account
- attempts to understand whole person
- works alongside the patient
- flexible
What are 5 methods of RD helping a client?
- Instructing
- Teaching
- Advising
- Discussing
- Counselling
Instructing:
purpose?
skiils needed?
Approach?
Purpose: get RD msg across
Skills: ordering
Approach: practioner-led
Teaching:
purpose?
skills needed?
Approach?
Purpose: to ensure client understands the material
Skills: explaining/demonstrating
Approach: practitioner-led
Advising:
purpose?
skills needed?
Approach?
Purpose: to tell client what to do
Skills: persuading
Approach: practioner-led
Discussing:
purpose?
skills needed?
Approach?
Purpose: to exchange points of view
Skills: express oneself
Approach: Combined approach
Counselling:
purpose?
skills needed?
Approach?
Purpose: to understand/help clients make changes
Skills: listening/responding helpfully
Approach: patient-led
what is the difference between psychotherapy and psychological counselling?
psychotherapy: the purpose is to treat the psych disorder, applying a specific technique. it is a controlled act
Psychological counselling: an interaction where the helper offers another person time, attention, respect
what are the 5 stages of change?
- pre-contemplation
- contemplation
- preparation
- action
- maintenance
(relapse)
_____ is fostered when using a prescriptive approach.
dependency
If a patient feels helpless and expects the dietitian to solve their problem, this is an example of:
transference
when a dietitian says something like “its for your own good” that is an example of
countertransferance
what are 3 ways to keep biases in check?
- practice self-awareness
- acknowledge and accept that I have biases
- re-focus on empathy and patient-centredness
What are the core conditions of a helping relationship? explain?
- Empathy
- are sensitive to otherpeoples experiences while maintaining own sense of identity
- caring in an accepting and genuine way
-outcome: client feels heard
- outcome - client is more likely to experiment - Acceptance
- involves having respect and warmth for another person. Relates to acceptance of ourselves
- outcome: client feels accepted
-outcome: client is more likely to take risks - Genuineness
- being who we truly are, without facade
- outcome: client feels valued
- outcome: client is more likely to change behaviour to achieve goals
empathy is effective at reducing barriers in relationships through ______ and ______
active listening
reflective responding
what is the difference between empathy and sympathy?
empathy = connecting with the other person instread of trying to find approproiate response
sympathy = you take on another’s experience as your own
Empathy = “i can see that you feel ____ because”
What are 3 ways we can demonstrate acceptance (a core condition for a helping relationship) in practice?
- consider the value of self-awareness
- consider the value of self-acceptance
- consider the value of being honest with yourself
what are 5 features of a competent communicator?
- large repertoir of comms skills
- flexibility
- empathy/perspective taking
- cognitive complexity
- self monitoring/self awareness