Communication Skills
Communication that is professional, goal directed, and scientifically based.
What is therapeutic communication?
This is a unique gift that we learn to use creatively in healthcare to form positive bonds with others.
What is "therapeutic use of self"?
This concept refers to personal space and what distance between oneself and others is comfortable for an individual.
What is proxemics?
This disorder is the most common psychological disorder diagnosed. It occurs along a continuum, in the mildest form it can be helpful in setting goals and motivating an individual and can be life altering in its most sever form..
What is anxiety?
This is the process by which psychological distress is expressed as physical symptoms without a known organic source, causes substantial distress and psychosocial impairment with or without a known general medical disease.
What is somatization?
This is the reason a person might need to communicate and is the first stage in the Berlo's communication model.
What is a stimulus?
This was identified by Sigmund Freud as a process whereby a person unconsciously and inappropriately displaces patterns of behavior and emotional reactions towards another person that originated in relation to a significant figure in childhood.
What is transference?
This is a disorder characterized by symptoms, such as flashbacks, recurrent nightmares, and avoidance behaviors, that occur after an individual has been exposed to a trauma severe enough to be outside the range of normal human experience and has lasted for more than a month.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
These mechanisms are used by individuals to reduce anxiety. They protect people from painful awareness of feelings and memories that can provoke overwhelming anxiety. They can be either adaptive or maladaptive.
What are defense mechanisms?
This is associated with a reduction in the lifespan similar to smoking cigarettes. High levels are associated with hypertension and inflammatory reactivity to acute stress and may be related to blunted cardiac, cortisol, and immune responses.
What is loneliness?
This is said to have happened when the meaning of the message sent s correctly interpreted by the receiver.
What is effective or congruent communication?
This is the phase of the nurse-client relationship in which rapport is established, roles are clarified, clients articulate their problems and agree upon goals, and termination is discussed.
What is the orientation phase?
This is an approach to treatment that includes an awareness of the prevalence of trauma; an understanding of the impact of trauma on physical emotion, and mental health.
What is trauma informed care?
This is a chronic disorder in which a person has uncontrollable reoccurring thoughts and behaviors that the person feels the urge to repeat over and over.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This is a behavior not a psychiatric disorder where there is intentional faking or exaggerating symptoms for obvious benefits, money, housing, medications, or avoiding work or criminal prosecution.
What is malingering?
This drastically influences communication, refers to any body gestures, and is often called cues.
What is nonverbal communication?
This is an active phase of communication and perhaps the most important for the nurse to master. It involves allowing the client to talk when needed, becoming a sounding board for the client's concerns and issues, attending to what is behind the words, and is a learned skill perhaps the most important for a person to master.
What is listening?
This type of psychotherapy teaches the client how to evaluate and change upsetting thoughts experienced and is fundamentally based upon the belief that changing thoughts can change feelings, and thus change responses.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This is a persistent, intense irrational fear of an object, activity, or situation that leads to a desire for avoidance, or actual avoidance of the object, activity, or situation. Differs from fear because there is no specific danger.
What is a phobia?
This theory indicates that humans shift attention to those higher level needs (social, intellectual, and spiritual) only after basic lower level needs (food shelter and clothing) have been met
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
This is NOT the absence of communication and can be a specific channel for receiving and sending messages.
What is silence?
This is a special kind of listening that refers to an intensity of presence or being with the client. Body posture, eye contact, and body language reflect the degree and are highly culturally influenced.
What is attending?
These disorders involve a disruption in consciousness, with significant impairment of memory, identity, or perception of self. Is often accompanied by a number of comorbidities, and is associated with a high risk for self-harm and suicidal behaviors.
What are dissociative disorders?
This blocks the reuptake of serotonin, increasing the levels in the brain. Paxil is an example.
What is an SSRI, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor?
This disorder formerly known as "Munchausen syndrome", is intentionally faking symptoms in order to assume the sick role, to be the patient.
What is factitious disorder?