Roles and Relationships Flashcards
To understand the relationship and the roles between patients and providers.
What is the first theme that we talked about in patient provider communication?
The role of relationships
What were the lectures and readings that were associated with the theme Role Relationships?
Berger: Developing the relationship
and
Wanzer et al: Preceptions of Health care providers’ communication (relationships between patient-centered communication and satisfaction)
What is the social role?
A position, status or identity within a larger social system or structure.
Enact: roles and how they are acted out.
What are the ideas that were brought up in having social roles?
Two roles: Patient and Provider
Enact: the idea of how we act differently with different people and situations
Example: Professional atmosphere vs. Social atmosphere
What is the black sheep?
The odd one out
True or False:
Roles are stable and permanent.
False.
They are situational.
Example: In class, I am a professor; At home, I am a husband and a father; On stage I am a bass player
How can roles become situationally relevant?
Two colleagues can talk as fellow dates
What is involved in the normative expectations in the development of roles?
“Roles involve normative expectations concerning the behavioral entitlements and obligations of an incumbent (a person in a role).
What does normative mean?
Social norms for what we expect and how we perceive, they are statistically current, expected or a moral connection.
What are entitlements?
The stuff you get to do because you are in the role you get to do these things
What are obligations?
They are things you are assumed and expected to do
What is an example of these entitlements and obligations?
A mother has entitlements to assign chores to children and inquire about the children’s lives.
A mother has an obligation to provide love and support and to “let go” of children.
What is a role relationship?
Some social roles are associated with other social roles, resulting in a complementary pairing of interdependent roles: Parent-child Leader-follower Interviewer-interviewee Protagonist-Antagonist Sibling-Sibling
What are role relationships often perceived as and do they have to be?
Often perceived as heirarchical but they don’t have to be
What is the patient-provider as a role relationship?
The discussion we had was who are providers and how do you define a provider.
