Unit 5 Health And Social Care Level 3 Essay

Music and drama: in health and social care we have various individuals who have various needs in terms of providing services for them. However, service providers use music and drama in order for clients to be able to express themselves. The force of music, particularly singing help dementia clients to be able to communicate because they use it as a point expressing themselves. For example, in Stone End Day Centre where I did my placement, the staff used music and drama to be able to communicate with clients who have dementia. This has helped them to be able to communicate with the clients because the clients can easily express themselves by using music and drama. In addition to this, music and drama is used in the context of either 1-1 or group. The 1-1 could be between a staff and a client or the group will be between some staff and some group of clients who are particularly suffering from dementia. In the day centre where I did my placement, the staff used music and drama for a particular group of individuals who have dementia or who cannot express their self through speaking words. The staff used music and drama so that those group of clients can communicate and express themselves. However, in the event that a particular client have severe dementia the staff will
have a 1-1 with the client so that the client could express him or herself. When using music and drama, the staff can use touch, facial expression and posture as a point of interpersonal interaction. For example, in my placement, staff used touch for those who are build, posture for those who have severe dementia and facial expression for those who have minor dementia so that they could able to interact with them through music and drama. In relation to the theories, music and drama can be link to Argyle’s and Tuckman’s theories because based on Argyle’s theory he said that in order for communication to be effective both participators need to actively involved in the communication and consider the best specialised technique to use upon the circumstance and the individual with whom they are communicating with. Whereas, Tuckman said in order for communication to be effective the clients, need to know each other and the staff themselves need to know the clients so that communication will be effective.

Strength and weaknesses: These communication are of value because it can help individuals’ communication troublesome sentiments and recollections that they discover excessively troublesome, making it impossible to discuss in words. It can bring back old emotions and recollections the individuals’ thought they had overlooked, helping them manage troublesome things in their past and proceed onward. It can help clients get used to communicating, which can then help them compose or discuss their emotions all the more effectively. Health specialist can utilize music to speak with clients, regardless of the fact that the individuals’ are not intentionally tuning in. This might be useful on the off chance that they think that it’s difficult to speak with other individuals, and may help the clients feel more ready to draw in with other individuals after some time. Disadvantages of these form of communication is that not everyone will be able to tune in especially if they are not familiar with the song, other people might choose a certain song which the others are not familiar with and the individuals’ will not be able to communicate and finally, the use of drama communication cannot be effective because not all the clients or staff can act for the other clients or individuals to tune in.

Finally, in my placement for the past few weeks I have observed a 1-1 interaction and a group interaction. The communication that took place was between a staff and an old woman. The group interaction was between two staff and a group of elderly adults. The context of the group interaction was an informal conversation between two staff and elderly adults. The interaction appeared to be casual due to the kidding and giggling that occurred, also because the interaction was with elderly people, so the staff couldn’t be professional and formal; to keep elderly interested the staff have to make the activities seem fun. The communication to the gathering was powerful in light of the fact that there were instructions which the elderly people listened to and saw, then completed.
The connection of the 1-1 interaction was between a staff and an elderly person in the centre.
The communication between them was informal, the staff had to explain something to the elderly person, her tone of voice and language used was very comforting and she was patient waiting for the elderly person to respond. The communication was effective because after the staff explained in more detail what the task was, the elderly person understood. The types of interpersonal communication for both the 1-1 and the group interaction were speech, for the gathering communication the staff needed to do a physical example of some dance moves in between the interaction in order for the elderly people to
understand.
In regard to the 1-1 interaction, the interpersonal interaction was speech too, the elderly person had to use speech to explain what she didn’t understand and the staff has to explain through speech back to her so she understood.
The elderly’s language needs and preferences were just simply for the staff to speak clear and understandable English. A staff need to make sure that when speaking to elderly adults the staff need to use simple understandable words in order for the elderly people to understand and not feel confused. In relation to the advantage of this example was that the staff understood the clients they were communicating with and the staff waited patiently for the clients to explain themselves. However, the disadvantages was that during the interaction people were causing noise which made the other clients not to understood what was said by the staff.