NUR 155 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
Using silence Correct Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Accepting pauses or sliences that may extend for
several seconds or minutes without interjecting any
verbal response
Providing general leads Correct Answer: 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 Answer:
Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Making statements that are specific rather than general,
and tentative rather than absolute
,using open-ended questions Correct Answer:
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 Answer: 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 Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Actively listening for the client's basic message then
repeating those thoughts and/or feelings in similar words
seeing clarification Correct Answer: 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 Answer: 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 Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Suggesting one's presence, interest, or wish to
understand the client without making any demands or
attaching conditions
giving information Correct Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Providing in simple terms and direct manner, specific,
factual information the client may or may not request
, acknowledging Correct Answer: 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 Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Helping the client clarify an event, situation, or
happening in relationship to time
presenting reality Correct Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Helping the client to differentiate the real from the
unreal
focusing Correct Answer: Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:
Helping the client expand on and develop a topic of
importance
Answers
Using silence Correct Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Accepting pauses or sliences that may extend for
several seconds or minutes without interjecting any
verbal response
Providing general leads Correct Answer: 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 Answer:
Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Making statements that are specific rather than general,
and tentative rather than absolute
,using open-ended questions Correct Answer:
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 Answer: 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 Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Actively listening for the client's basic message then
repeating those thoughts and/or feelings in similar words
seeing clarification Correct Answer: 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 Answer: 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 Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Suggesting one's presence, interest, or wish to
understand the client without making any demands or
attaching conditions
giving information Correct Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Providing in simple terms and direct manner, specific,
factual information the client may or may not request
, acknowledging Correct Answer: 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 Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Helping the client clarify an event, situation, or
happening in relationship to time
presenting reality Correct Answer: Therapeutic
Communication Techniques:
Helping the client to differentiate the real from the
unreal
focusing Correct Answer: Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:
Helping the client expand on and develop a topic of
importance
