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Using silence (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:
Accepting pauses or sliences that may extend for several seconds or
minutes without interjecting any verbal response


Providing general leads (CORRECT ANSWERS) 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 (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Making statements that are specific rather than general, and tentative
rather than absolute


using open-ended questions (CORRECT ANSWERS) 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 (CORRECT ANSWERS) 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 (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Actively listening for the client's basic message then repeating those
thoughts and/or feelings in similar words


seeing clarification (CORRECT ANSWERS) 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 (CORRECT
ANSWERS) 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 (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:

,Suggesting one's presence, interest, or wish to understand the client
without making any demands or attaching conditions


giving information (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Providing in simple terms and direct manner, specific, factual
information the client may or may not request


acknowledging (CORRECT ANSWERS) 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 (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Helping the client clarify an event, situation, or happening in
relationship to time


presenting reality (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:
Helping the client to differentiate the real from the unreal


focusing (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:
Helping the client expand on and develop a topic of importance

, reflecting (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:
Directing ideas, feelings, questions, or content back to clients to enable
them to explore their own ideas and feelings about a situation


summarizing and planning (CORRECT ANSWERS) Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Stating the main points of a discussion to clarify the relevant points
discussed


stereotyping (CORRECT ANSWERS) Barriers to Communication:
Offering generalized and oversimplified beliefs about groups of people
that are based on experiences too limited to be valid


agreeing and disagreeing (CORRECT ANSWERS) Barriers to
Communication:
Implies that the client is either right or wrong and that the nurse is in a
position to judge this


being defensive (CORRECT ANSWERS) Barriers to Communication:
Attempting to protect a person or health care services from negative
comments


challenging (CORRECT ANSWERS) Barriers to Communication:
Giving a response that makes clients prove their statement or point of
view