COMMUNICATION: NON-THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES

1. Stereotyping

  • a person is automatically put into a specific category.  Example: "Men don't cry."
2.  Agreeing and diagreeing
  • Offering an opinion that one belief is right and other is wrong. 
  • Example:  Client: He is not a good doctor."
  • Nurse:  He is an excellent doctor cause he is the head of the department."
3.  Being Defensive
  • Protecting a person or health care service from negative comments
4.  Challenging
  • Giving a response that make clients prove their statement or point.
5.  Probing
  • Asking for information due to curiosity rather than to assist the patient.
6.  Testing
  • Asking question that make the client admit to something.
7.  Rejecting
  • Refusing to discuss certain topic with the client.
8.  Changing topic and subjects
  • Directing the communication into areas of self interest rather than a patient's interest.
9.  Unwanted reassurance
  • Using comforting statement of advice as a means of reassure the client.
10.  Passing Judgement
  • Responding to client based on the nurse's personal value system and imply right or wrong.
11.  Giving Common Advice
  • telling client what to do.
--Excerpt from lecture notes (Behavioural Science 1).

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