Summary: Therapeutic Relationship And Communication

Therapeutic relationship and communication Communication operates as an essential component of the therapeutic relationship (Rhoades, 2001). According to Crepeau and Garren (2011) to develop a strong therapeutic relationship, the therapist must be able to communicate in a way that allows them to enter into the patient’s experience, connect with the emotional feelings and to be willing to modify their own perspective in order to respond to the patient’s needs. Patient-therapist communication is undoubtedly different from ordinary every day conversation. There are four factors that are always relevant when studying spoken communication: the participants, the social setting, the topic, and the function (Kralova 2012). Except for the participants, all of these are in case of patient-therapist communication set within the institution of
According to his point of view the patient should take more responsibilities for their lives (Burke 2013). Nowadays, in developed countries health care practices are based on the patient centred model in which treatment is provided to the individual patient on the basis of preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions. Patient-centred care is typically based on the therapeutic relationship and it gives equal power to both patients and clinicians (Burke 2013). In the present situation rapid social changes and a lot of advances in medical technology is happening in developing countries. These changes can have an influence on the power relationship between the patient and health professionals in the health care settings of developing countries (Banerjee and Sanyal 2012). So this study also gives an opportunity to learn about the existence of power in therapeutic relationship in the clinical and the socio-cultural context of developing countries like India (Banerjee and Sanyal