Nursing 1103W Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Therapeutic Relationship, Open Relationship
4 Mar 2016
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The core dimensions of helping. Client- nurse relationships may be a mutual learning experience, but the goals of therapeutic relationships are directed toward the growth of clients. Carkhuff"s - core dimensions of helping. Plus the synonym, realness, describe genuineness. Formed by warmth and respect. Regard for patient will not be affected by the choices, characteristics, or outcomes made by the patient. Listening is crucial: empathy. To sense the client"s private world as if it were your own, but without losing the as if quality. One of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning. One of the most delicate and powerful ways we have of using ourselves: responsive dimensions. Facilitate formation of therapeutic relationships: genuineness, Respect, empathy, concreteness: action- oriented conditions. Immediacy, self- disclosure, context of warmth/understanding. Open, honest, sincere person, actively involved, sincere. Thinking, feeling, saying same thing. Speaks deep from within without apology. Expresses thoughts, feelings, and experiences in the here and now spontaneity + openness.
