Gender Differences In Therapeutic Communication

My parents as well as my siblings have different ways of responding to conflict. My mother as well as my younger sisters respond to conflict by using defensive listening and argumentative communication. As stated in chapter 6, "defensive listening involves perceiving a personal attack, criticism, or hostile undertone in communication when none is intended" (Wood 122). This often leads to the conflict not being resolved and misunderstanding between others in the household. On the other hand, my brother and my dad handle conflict through silence. Silence is "a lack of communicated sound" (Wood 105). To an extent I think I have a mixture of using silence as well as defensive listen and argumentative communication. When a conflict comes into play, I become very defensive. I always want to get my point across and have to have the last say. This is a learned behavior I observed from my mother. The issue is not dismissed until she has had the last day in everything. I think that members of our family have a bigger impact on how we resolve conflict because they are initially the ones we experience our first conflicts with.

All service users have different needs. Nurses must be competent in using a variety of skills in combination with each other that are person centered, within nursing practice, HCP must be able to utilise these skills and apply them to the specific outcome of the intervention (Stevenson 2008)

Stress is both directly and indirectly linked to a host of mental and physical problems. It is described as a feeling experienced when individuals perceive that they cannot

For this study, I chose to interview and analyze the Kaiser family. This family consists of Mindy, the mother, Matt, the father, and their children, Adeline and Lily. As a family, they are well-rounded in the community, their church, and involved in the children’s activities. They are dedicated to shaping an ideal environment while providing their children with the tools they need to thrive. Serving as this family’s nanny for the past 4 years, I have seen their children grow up.

Neuroscience tells that each human being have a different and unique way of communicating, speaking, and interacting, and that humans have different experiences of conflicts that allows one human to connect with the other (Teitelbum, 2016). Having the power to communicate with one another is a privilege, but being able to connect and speak from the heart is a gift. Nursing is a profession that allows a person to give comfort and care through an effective communication which bridges in healing a person’s body. Being unable to positively communicate with the patient causes an enormous struggle in building a relationship between the patient and the nurse. This paper will point out the positive and negative communication a nurse used to interact with her patient and will offer alternatives to improve the nurse-patient relationship.

This paper will explain the seven principles of patient-clinician communication. It will then apply three of those principles to my interactions with my patients. Next, it will describe three methods being used in my area of practice to improved communication between the patients and clinicians. It will ultimately choose one of those principles that applies best to my practice and clearly describe how I use it. It will describe ethical principles that can be applied to issues with patient-clinician communication. Finally, it will explain the importance of ethics in communication and how patient safety is influenced by good or bad team communication.

Therapeutic communication is a core factor in mental health nursing. It is important for a mental health nurse to have knowledge and interpersonal skills to communicate with a client who is experiencing a mental health disorder. Therefore, it allows a good relationship between a nurse and a client. Communication is an involvement with thinking, feeling and behaviour either its verbal, in writing or non verbal. Therapeutic communication is mostly client focused and is towards patient’s “goal directed”. Therefore, it is essential for a nurse to review any relevant medical histories or clinical data regarding the client before an assessment and by talking to other caregivers’ information can be collected as a result of any arising or concerning

Even from a very young age, I had always realized that males and females thought and communicated differently. Within my own family, gender miscommunication plagues my parent's marriage and my relationship with my three sisters. Even so, the dissimilarities between how my girlfriend and I communicate helped me further grasp the importance of understanding gender miscommunication. Through her research, Deborah Tannen has found that males and females see the world through different lenses. While they value the elements of each other’s “worlds,” they emphasize the elements differently. Males tend to be more direct in their communication while females prefer indirection and expressiveness. Contributions to my worldly lens were

Mrs. Berrand falls into the Black minority group and identify themselves as members of the low middle class. She completed high school in her country, but was unable to pursue higher education due to financial difficulty. She claimed there is no college graduate in her family so far, but most of the members of her generation, including her, were high school graduated. She values education and would like her children to have a higher education. When she arrived in the United States, she did different kinds of jobs with minimal wages until she had a chance to be trained as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) after 3 years that she had been in America. She works full time in a Long Term Care facility where she works very hard, providing personal

Social mores are those unwritten rules that dictate how we act in public. They are the things that irritate the general public, like when a person is walking on the “wrong side” of the sidewalk. No law governs which side a person should use, but society expects that one would use the same as what they would drive. If a person enters an elevator and faces the back rather than the front, not only will it make others uncomfortable, but it will be uncomfortable for that person as well. In a similar fashion, attempting to go against the socially expected behaviors for one’s gender is uncomfortable to the point of avoidance. Schmitt explains, “whatever the differences in men's and women's psyches—empathy, jealousy, cognitive abilities, mate preferences—many theories in psychology assume that they result primarily from direct gender socialization by parents, media, and societal institutions” (92). The way society expects the different genders to appropriate to current cultural standards and norms truly affects how people handle the stress in their lives.

Gender is the state of being male or female. Male are thought to be adventurous, aggressive, strong whereas females are to be affectionate, attractive, shy and sexy. While I highly identify with my feminine gender characteristics, at times l possess masculine characteristics like confidence, ambition, and sometimes aggression.

Sexism runs rampant through the institutions of contemporary life. While politics, marriage, education, and athletics are a few of many institutions plagued by sexism, women’s healthcare is perhaps the most egregious of them all because it is a life or death proposition. Women’s healthcare is often put second to men’s healthcare, as physicians neglect to recognize the biological differences between the sexes. This results in women receiving improper treatment for their symptoms or having their needs entirely neglected. Not only do these issues affect women, but also, being that females are child bearers, the lack of attention paid to female health potentially impacts the wellbeing of future children. A number of changes should be implemented

It is important to understand effective communication when working in health and social care. Communication should be clear and understood by the person you are having a conversation with. It is important to consider verbal communication as well as non-verbal communication and should be adapted to the service users’ ability to understand the conversation. Factors that affect communication are the location of the conversation and noise levels. To consider if the conversation should be private or to have a conversation while carrying out an activity together. The type of relationship you have with service user will encourage them to speak to you about problems they might have. The positioning of chairs at an angle and using a table will make

Your groups will be made up of three students each. Each of you has different strengths and talents you will bring to your group. For instance, Sally, John, and Micah will be in Group #1 and they will read a biography about Amelia Earhart. Micah is very good at organizing. He will help John and Sally organize the important events from Amelia Earhart’s life on the timeline. Sally is a very good writer. She will be able to help John and Micah write the biography report. John is a very good speaker. He will present the biography report and timeline to the class. Working together, their group will create a timeline, biography report, and group presentation which will help the rest of us learn important information and facts about Amelia Earhart.

Stress has generally been viewed as a set of neurological and physiological reactions that serves an adaptive function (Franken, 1994). Traditionally, stress research has been oriented toward studies involving the body's reaction to stress and the cognitive processes that influence the perception of stress. However, social perspectives of the stress response have noted that different people experiencing similar life conditions are not necessarily affected in the same manner (Pearlin, 1982).