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Week 4 Discussion 1: Therapeutic Communication Skills

To do: Make forum posts: 1

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 4, and reply to at least two of your classmates, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Note: In this type of discussion, you will not see the responses of your classmates until after you have posted your own response to the question below.

Pick an aspect of therapeutic communication to complete your video for this discussion. Here are some example aspects or you may choose a different one.

• Boundaries
• Transference
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Non-Verbal Meanings
• Resistance
• Alliance
• Listening and Attending

Once you have chosen an aspect, create a video that shows how you would demonstrating active listening, paraphrasing, and mentalizing using the aspect you have chosen.

Your video should demonstrate your knowledge and skills of therapeutic communication in order to do the following:

• Assess the needs of the client
• Respect the client values and beliefs
• Provide support
• Encourage the client to verbalize feelings
• Offer effective communication with the client.

Your job is to move your client to health and show the skills that are involved as you focus on the client.

You can create your own scenario and begin your video at a place where you feel is best.

Examples:

• Thank you for meeting with me Mr. Brown, I understand that you have been having nightmares again.
• Let me clarify what I believe you are saying…
• It states here in your chart that you have been participating in illegal…

Your video should be no longer than 3 minutes in length. You can create your video using Zoom Instructions and the YouTube Instructions.

Initial Post

Along with your video, answer the following prompts in your initial post.

• Discuss the problems/barriers that can arise for the topic you have chosen.
• Identify how these problems/barriers can interfere with therapeutic communication.
• Discuss how this aspect of therapeutic communication might change to enhance alliance building with individuals who are another culture (choose one).
• Submit your video to this discussion forum.

Replies

Reply to one peer’s post by asking the peer one question about their identified cultural barrier as it relates to therapeutic communication. Please do not reply to a student that already has a reply post associated with it.

• What did you notice that would help your peer improve upon their delivery of the therapeutic communication technique?
• Was it convincing? Would you feel comfortable with the technique presented if you were the client?
• Pick out an idea from your peers’ video that you find most interesting and tell how you will use this information in practice.

Please refer to the Discussion Board Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded. The described expectations meet the passing level of 80%. Students are directed to review the Discussion Grading Rubric for criteria which exceed expectations.

This is a discussion board response. Please read my peers post in the file attached and respond to it by highlighting the importance of communication skills and any suggestion(s).