P5 P6 M3 D2
This assignment will be talking about my time at placement (Waltham House) and how i participated in a one-to-one interaction and also a group interaction. Then it will be explaining how I assessed their communication and interpersonal skills in relation to each of the interactions. Finally I will be evaluating factors that influenced the effectiveness of each interaction.
One-to-one interaction
For the one-to-one interaction I played dominoes with resident A in the dining room after they finished dinner whilst some of the other residents were asleep. Whilst I played dominoes with resident A, I used different communication skills like listening and showed that I was listening by giving head nods and smiled at resident A. I also used non-verbal communication such as eye-contact with resident A, I felt that this worked because the resident was nodding and that showed me that they were listening and understood me. I spoke slowly and clearly with resident A so that they could hear and understand me and I knew that the resident could hear and understand me because they responded straight away and wasn’t asking me to repeat myself. During the game of domino 's I asked resident A questions, such as "did you enjoy dinner?", "are you ok?" I feel like this made the resident feel more comfortable around me. There was the use of silence when we were playing dominoes but it only lasted a few seconds. After we had finished a few games of dominoes I got up and patted resident A 's shoulder and said "well done". The proximity between me and the resident was good because the resident could hear me clearly and I knew this because they were replying back to me straight away and I didn’t have to repeat myself several times.
I personally think that my communication skills were effective because at first resident A was quite shy with me and it was a little bit awkward. However by the end of the few games of domino 's resident A would have done anything to keep the conversation flowing.
One-to-one interaction
For the one-to-one interaction I played dominoes with resident A in the dining room after they finished dinner whilst some of the other residents were asleep. Whilst I played dominoes with resident A, I used different communication skills like listening and showed that I was listening by giving head nods and smiled at resident A. I also used non-verbal communication such as eye-contact with resident A, I felt that this worked because the resident was nodding and that showed me that they were listening and understood me. I spoke slowly and clearly with resident A so that they could hear and understand me and I knew that the resident could hear and understand me because they responded straight away and wasn’t asking me to repeat myself. During the game of domino 's I asked resident A questions, such as "did you enjoy dinner?", "are you ok?" I feel like this made the resident feel more comfortable around me. There was the use of silence when we were playing dominoes but it only lasted a few seconds. After we had finished a few games of dominoes I got up and patted resident A 's shoulder and said "well done". The proximity between me and the resident was good because the resident could hear me clearly and I knew this because they were replying back to me straight away and I didn’t have to repeat myself several times.
I personally think that my communication skills were effective because at first resident A was quite shy with me and it was a little bit awkward. However by the end of the few games of domino 's resident A would have done anything to keep the conversation flowing.