AV Paper Psych 
Audio Visual Communication Project
Jackie Nuno
Lizeth Allman
Maria Buenrostro
Rio Hondo College
Client-Nurse Interactions with Individuals with Schizophrenia The term schizophrenia is derived from the Greek work “skhizo” meaning “split” and “phren” meaning “mind.” The cause of this mental illness is still uncertain, but what is evident is the enormous threat to life and stress that this disorder can cause to an individual, as well as to the whole family. According to this article, individuals with schizophrenia have difficulty forming social relationships due to the positive and negative symptoms of this mental disorder. The goal of this study was to study different type of communication skills between a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and a client with schizophrenia through assessment of their videotaped interactions. The two types of communication used during this study were verbal and nonverbal communication, as it were suspected, the client had different responses to each type of communication. The research observed three different patients, each session lasting between 12-19 minutes. The conversations took place in an urban community mental health center during a medication monitoring session. All three patients were videotaped three times each for a total of nine meetings. The analysis of the videotapes proceeded in a series of fours steps. After each step was completed, the data revealed interesting behavioral interactions between both the client and the nurse. It was noted that when the nurse moved her body towards the participant while he or she was speaking, this conveyed a message of concern towards the patient. This would cause the patient to want to open up a little more, and continue to speak to the nurse. The nurse at times would also display nonverbal body language that conveyed the participant to want to join in. In other instances, the nurse would sit forward with the chart in her lap, which in a sense presented body
Jackie Nuno
Lizeth Allman
Maria Buenrostro
Rio Hondo College
Client-Nurse Interactions with Individuals with Schizophrenia The term schizophrenia is derived from the Greek work “skhizo” meaning “split” and “phren” meaning “mind.” The cause of this mental illness is still uncertain, but what is evident is the enormous threat to life and stress that this disorder can cause to an individual, as well as to the whole family. According to this article, individuals with schizophrenia have difficulty forming social relationships due to the positive and negative symptoms of this mental disorder. The goal of this study was to study different type of communication skills between a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and a client with schizophrenia through assessment of their videotaped interactions. The two types of communication used during this study were verbal and nonverbal communication, as it were suspected, the client had different responses to each type of communication. The research observed three different patients, each session lasting between 12-19 minutes. The conversations took place in an urban community mental health center during a medication monitoring session. All three patients were videotaped three times each for a total of nine meetings. The analysis of the videotapes proceeded in a series of fours steps. After each step was completed, the data revealed interesting behavioral interactions between both the client and the nurse. It was noted that when the nurse moved her body towards the participant while he or she was speaking, this conveyed a message of concern towards the patient. This would cause the patient to want to open up a little more, and continue to speak to the nurse. The nurse at times would also display nonverbal body language that conveyed the participant to want to join in. In other instances, the nurse would sit forward with the chart in her lap, which in a sense presented body
References: Hardy, S. (2013). Prevention and management of depression in primary care. Nursing Standards, 27(26), 51-56. Kluge, M.,&Glick, L. (2006). Teaching therapeutic communication via camera cues and clues: the video inter-active (VIA) method. Journal of Nursing Education, 45(11), 463-463. Pounds, K.G. (2010). Client-Nurse interactions with individuals with schizophrenia: a descriptive pilot study. Mental Health Nursing, Vol.31 (12), 770-4. doi: 10.3109/01612840.518337