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NUR 155 Exam 1 Questions & 100% Correct
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Using silence
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Accepting pauses or sliences that may extend for several seconds or minutes without
interjecting any verbal response
Providing general leads
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Using statements or questions that...
* encourage the client to verbalize
* choose a topic of conversation
* and facilitate continued verbalization
Being specific and tentative
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Making statements that are specific rather than general, and tentative rather than absolute
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using open-ended questions
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Asking broad questions that lead or invite the client to explore (elaborate, clarify, describe,
compare or illustrate) thoughts or feelings; invite answers that are longer than one or two
words
using touch
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Providing appropriate forms of touch to reinforce caring feelings; be sensitive to
differences in attitudes and practices of clients and self
restating or paraphrasing
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Actively listening for the client's basic message then repeating those thoughts and/or
feelings in similar words
seeing clarification
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✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
A method of making the client's broad overall meaning of the message more
understandable; to clarify the message or confess confusion
perception checking or seeking consensual validation
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
A method similar to clarifying that verifies the meaning of specific words rather than the
overall meaning of a message
offering self
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Suggesting one's presence, interest, or wish to understand the client without making any
demands or attaching conditions
giving information
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Providing in simple terms and direct manner, specific, factual information the client may or
may not request
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acknowledging
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Giving recognition, in a nonjudgmental way, of a change in behavior, an effort the client
has made, or a contribution to a communication
clarifying time or sequence
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client clarify an event, situation, or happening in relationship to time
presenting reality
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client to differentiate the real from the unreal
focusing
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client expand on and develop a topic of importance
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NUR 155 Exam 1 Questions & 100% Correct
Answers- Latest Test | Graded A+ | Passed
Using silence
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Accepting pauses or sliences that may extend for several seconds or minutes without
interjecting any verbal response
Providing general leads
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Using statements or questions that...
* encourage the client to verbalize
* choose a topic of conversation
* and facilitate continued verbalization
Being specific and tentative
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Making statements that are specific rather than general, and tentative rather than absolute
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using open-ended questions
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Asking broad questions that lead or invite the client to explore (elaborate, clarify, describe,
compare or illustrate) thoughts or feelings; invite answers that are longer than one or two
words
using touch
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Providing appropriate forms of touch to reinforce caring feelings; be sensitive to
differences in attitudes and practices of clients and self
restating or paraphrasing
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Actively listening for the client's basic message then repeating those thoughts and/or
feelings in similar words
seeing clarification
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✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
A method of making the client's broad overall meaning of the message more
understandable; to clarify the message or confess confusion
perception checking or seeking consensual validation
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
A method similar to clarifying that verifies the meaning of specific words rather than the
overall meaning of a message
offering self
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Suggesting one's presence, interest, or wish to understand the client without making any
demands or attaching conditions
giving information
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Providing in simple terms and direct manner, specific, factual information the client may or
may not request
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acknowledging
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Giving recognition, in a nonjudgmental way, of a change in behavior, an effort the client
has made, or a contribution to a communication
clarifying time or sequence
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client clarify an event, situation, or happening in relationship to time
presenting reality
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client to differentiate the real from the unreal
focusing
✓ -:- Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client expand on and develop a topic of importance
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