Not being able to express their feelings, needs and not being understood can make the service user frightened and distressed as well as a strong possibility of confusion and misunderstanding. In such cases a professional interpreter is needed. It is tempting to use a family member but the service user may not want family members involved in personal discussions about health or care issues.in addition their ability to interpret may not be as good as a professional interpreter’s and misunderstandings can easily
This is because body language is instinctive and may be more effective than verbal communication. Some of the people we support may have difficulty communicating verbally and some may be unable to speak at all. By studying peoples support plans and speaking with work colleagues it helps us to understand how the people we support communicate. Some may prefer to communicate using signs or gestures if their speech is difficult to understand. There are many different methods of
Likewise, while abuse disclosure is difficult for everyone, women report greater difficulty in naming the abuse, whereas men communicate that although they recognize abuse when it happens, they have a tendency to stay silent because it can feel emasculating to disclose (Powers et al. 2004). Another complex issue for men and women with disabilities is addressing abuse when the perpetrator is a family member or a friend who also provides personal assistance. Although many individuals have reported that their risk for abuse is lower when their provider is a family member or a friend, dealing with abuse when it arises in these relationships can be very difficult. Taken as a whole, the personal barriers that are the biggest impediments to addressing abuse include, most people don't believe that men
Communication is a method of interacting with people in different ways to understand and deliver messages clearly, both sender and receiver must understand the message for it to be effective. In this report I will discuss different methods of communication. Non-verbal communication is the passing of information between people using things such as hand gestures, how people sit, eyes contact and various others. This would be vital in a health and social care setting, for example using eyes contact to help increase successful conversation flow, it would be important in a health setting to have effective conversation flow to increase the amount of help you could give to a patient. Being able to analyse whether a patient is comfortable in your vicinity is also very vital.
Disabilities: Clients with disabilities such as sensory impairment often find it difficult to engage in treatment due to obvious barriers and under skilled staff. As a project we must utilise the resources available in the community to ensure that clients have equal opportunity to access treatment and their needs communicated affectively. We lack staff with the ability to sign language or even the programmes that cater for the visually or hearing impaired. We can access voice command technology in our IT suit to assist with clients in engaging treatment. We need to pool current internal resources within the staff structure that can sign language or fund training for staff to be skilled up.
Q3) There are a number of factors which can contribute to an individual being more vulnerable to these types of abuse, including, no or little family contact, their personal communication skills and their past experiences. If the client has learning disabilities or any other for that matter, this can also make them vulnerable as they may have communication problems and may not understand what is going on around them. This may cause them to not know
This makes it difficult to make a clear and effective communication between two people, because the service user might not understand what you are saying and would not response to any of your questions and this will make it harder to help them. Mental health conditions- There could be lots of service users who might have mental problems or with whom the health and social care workers have to work with. Mental disabilities can be a big problem as the communication level in minimum could be very little because of the person’s inability to understand others mentally. Blindness- It could possibly be a barrier for two people to communicate as the other person might not be able to see you or the way that you’re trying to approach him/her like, by watching your body language or
Unit 1 P1 Developing effective communication in health and social care. 2014 Introduction This booklet will consist of effective communication in a health and social care environment, it will consist of everything we have recently learnt during our lessons. Health and social care settings include: Hospitals, nurseries, care homes etc. Service users include: Patients, the elderly, children, babies. Communication is important as we will be engaging in conversation with service users as a health and social care professional to create a comfortable environment to allow the service user to trust and open up to the professional, as well as communicating with colleagues and mangers.
when we have this barrier we must encourage them or ourselves that we have to have confidence and speak up this is because we must speak up in a setting or if we see something wrong then we have to tell someone. Lack of confidence is a hard barrier for someone to overcome so it’s vital they have support. We may have low self-esteem. When a person has low self-esteem they will feel down a lot of the time as they don’t think that they are good enough. They may think this because of their past or because they are being bullied.
Principles of Communication in Adult Social Care Settings Question Booklet Task A – Short Answer Questions Ai Effective communication and the ability to understand others and to make ourselves understood is vital in providing high quality care in adult social care settings. Good communication helps everyone understand what others see, hear and feel. People can share their wishes and needs (emotional and physical), cares and preferences. Communication is important in socializing, building up and keeping relationships and friendships with others. People communicate to share opinions, knowledge, information, and to give instructions.