Importance Of Caring Communication In Client Care

Caring Communication

Caring Communication is an important part of client care. With caring communication we can assess how to care for our clients needs in a genuine caring way. There are five components to caring communication and they are openness, empathy, supportiveness, positiveness and equality. With these five components to caring, we are able to provide to our clients a sense of worth, value, and dignity.
● Openness is when a good communicator is willing to share personal thoughts and feelings about ones self that pertain to the conversation they are having with a person, but making sure you keep the conversation about the persons experiences and not your own.
● To show empathy is to put yourself in a persons position, to feel as they might feel. To try and understand the feelings they are
experiencing and expressing to you without passing judgement.
● When expressing supportiveness you are listening to what a person is sharing with you. You need to show that you believe and trust what they are communicating to you without criticizing.
● Being positive is to show confidence and respect for yourself. When showing positiveness you need to let the person know they are liked and appreciated. In doing this they would become more comfortable in partaking in the conversation. ● To express equality to a person is letting them know they have the same worth, value, and importance as everyone else. This show that both people have something to contribute to the conversation.

I have some situations where I have tried to use caring communication that I would like to share with you.
My parents decided they wanted to quit smoking. When they told this to me, I told them how happy and proud of them I was of them for wanting to make this change in their lives I let them know that I wanted to support them by helping doing more around the house and if they ever wanted to talk and share anything with me about what they were going through, that I would be there to listen. My brother came to me and told me he was going to be a father and that he was scared and nervous about it. I started to talk to him about when I went through the same thoughts and feelings. We shared our thoughts and emotions about fatherhood. I let him know it was normal to feel what he was feeling and I reassured him that he would be a great father. When I go to visit my grandmother, she loves to talk about her past. During our conversations, I give her my undivided attention and make plenty of eye contact. I ask her questions about the topics of discussion. I try to share with her some of my similar experiences to show that we have some common
ground. When my girl friends grandfather passed away, I knew she was upset to lose him. I wanted her to know that she was not alone. I started to tell her how I dealt with the death of my mother. I shared with her the emotions and feeling that I had experienced. I let her know that when she wanted to share with me what she was feeling, that would be there to listen. I let her know that I loved her and it was ok to cry. When thinking about these components I think I could work on not talking so much about my own experiences and instead listen more to what the are expressing to me. To ask more questions about how they would like to discuss there topic. Sometimes when the conversation is emotional, I find it hard to stay positive. I can become emotional myself and my feelings take over. Then I find it hard to stay confident in my ability to be grounded and supportive.