Communication in health and social care
UNIT 1: COMMUNICATING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ORGANISATIONS
Scenario
You have been asked to create an information pack for health and social care students about the importance of communication in working with adults. Your pack should include information about a range of communication methods, both verbal and non-verbal. It should also include advice about how to identify the different communication needs of individual, some of the barriers to effective communication and how these can be overcome.
Task 1
Produce an illustrated poster or fact sheet, which identifies a range of communication methods. Your poster/fact sheet should identify 4 different methods and should include both verbal and non-verbal Communication.
Everyone knows the importance of communication these days. In every environment that you, as a person, are working, communication is the best way in trying to make yourself understood or to understand others. Therefore, everyone uses some form of communication methods to send a message across. Without these different methods of communication which are available today, people would not be able to carry out the duties that they need to complete every single day, even we talk about duties at work or at home. There are many different types of communication and they can be classified like this:
Verbal communication
Non-verbal communication
Written communication
Visual communication
The Verbal Communication can be said that is the most used method of communication. It is formed by the person who is talking and the person who is listening. In a verbal communication people are using words and sounds and they depend on the tone of the voice, rate of speech, volume of speech, intonation or accent. The way the sounds and words differ can be because of the gender, class, profession, geographical area, age group or other social elements that the individual comes from. Good verbal communication comes from a good explaining of your ideas and
Scenario
You have been asked to create an information pack for health and social care students about the importance of communication in working with adults. Your pack should include information about a range of communication methods, both verbal and non-verbal. It should also include advice about how to identify the different communication needs of individual, some of the barriers to effective communication and how these can be overcome.
Task 1
Produce an illustrated poster or fact sheet, which identifies a range of communication methods. Your poster/fact sheet should identify 4 different methods and should include both verbal and non-verbal Communication.
Everyone knows the importance of communication these days. In every environment that you, as a person, are working, communication is the best way in trying to make yourself understood or to understand others. Therefore, everyone uses some form of communication methods to send a message across. Without these different methods of communication which are available today, people would not be able to carry out the duties that they need to complete every single day, even we talk about duties at work or at home. There are many different types of communication and they can be classified like this:
Verbal communication
Non-verbal communication
Written communication
Visual communication
The Verbal Communication can be said that is the most used method of communication. It is formed by the person who is talking and the person who is listening. In a verbal communication people are using words and sounds and they depend on the tone of the voice, rate of speech, volume of speech, intonation or accent. The way the sounds and words differ can be because of the gender, class, profession, geographical area, age group or other social elements that the individual comes from. Good verbal communication comes from a good explaining of your ideas and