NURS 204 Flashcards
Social Self
Different depending on context of interactions i.e. friends, family, professional work.
Material self
Possessions, body, physical
Symbolic Self-awareness
Using symbols to represent ourselves to others
Objective Self-awareness
Think about one’s own thoughts and state of mind while thinking
Subjective Self-awareness
Differentiate self from environment
Self-reflexiveness
The ability to think about what we are doing as we are doing it.
Mindfulness
Ability to consciously think about what you are doing rather than responding out of habit.
Personality
-Who you think you are based on your own perception.
-Enduring internal predisposition and behavioural characteristics that describe how people react to their environment.
(SRNSA) Practice standards (2019)
27 identifying the effect of own values, beliefs, and experiences in relationships w/ clients, recognizing and addressing potential conflicts.
Relational Orientation
- Focusing your attention beyond only interpersonal aspect as well as focusing on intrapersonal aspect.
- A way of thinking.
What are the phases of Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationships?
- Orientation phase
- Working phase
- Termination phase
Therapeutic relationship
A constructive, purposeful relationship focused on the needs of the client.
What are some core concepts of a therapeutic relationship?
-establishing support trust
-self-awareness and self-knowledge
-intentionality
-empathy
-confidentiality
-awareness of ethics, boundaries, and limits
Other-oriented
To be aware of thoughts, needs, experiences, personality, etc. of your communication partners while still maintaining your own integrity.
Communication
Process of acting on information
What is human communication?
The process of making sense of the world and attempting to share that sense with others by using non-verbal and verbal communication.
Interpersonal Communication
- a distinctive, transactional form of human communication.
- involving mutual influence
- for purpose of maintaining a relationship
Impersonal communication
Communication that occurs when we treat people as objects or when we respond to their roles.
Intrapersonal Communication
Communication within one’s own mind
Self-awareness
- Allows you to understand other people
- Having a clear perception of your personality, including strength weaknesses, motivation.
Self-absorbed
Only concerned with own self, personal context, internal messages.
Self-esteem
- What you think you’re worth
- Your perception of skills and appearance and how they are valued in society.
Social decentering
Cognitive process in which you take into account another person’s thoughts, feelings, values, and perspective.
Self-disclosure
- Purposely providing information to others that they would not learn if you did not tell them.
- Interpersonal relationships cannot be achieved without self-disclosure.
- Allows another person to understand you.
- Conveys your level of trust and acceptance to another person.
Self-concept
A person’s subjective description of who they think they are.
Perception
The process of experiencing your world and then making sense of what you experience.
How to check your perception:
- Observe non-verbal behaviour.
- Form a mental impression of what you think they mean.
- Ask whether your perception is accurate.
Johari Model of Self-disclosure
Framework for understanding conscious and unconscious bias that can help increase self-awareness and our understanding of others.
Passive vs. Active Perception
Passive - perception that occurs without conscious effort (what we hear, see, and smell).
Active - perception that occurs because you seek out specific info through intentional orientation (watching people).
Interpersonal perception
The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting one’s observations of other people.
3 Stages of perception:
- selecting - tune in
- organizing - categorize perceptions
- interpreting - make sense of perceptions
Listening process
- selecting
- attending
- understanding
- remembering
- responding
Interpersonal relationship
A perception shared among two people of an ongoing connection.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
What people believe about themselves often comes true bec they expect it to come true.
Value
An enduring concept of good and bad; right and wrong.
Beliefs
The ways in which you structure your understanding of reality; what is true and not true.
Attitude
Learned predispositions to respond to a person, object, or idea in a favourable or unfavourable way.
Spiritual self
The essence of your feelings about yourself.
- Thoughts and values.
Critical listeners
Are good at evaluating information they hear.
- Look for errors
Task-oriented listeners
Focused and achieve an outcomes or accomplishing a task.
- Time sensitive
Relational learners
listen with emotions, express with emotions. show empathy.
Analytical learners
focus on facts and tend to withhold judgement before reacting a specific conclusion.
