Responding to Patients' Nonverbal Communication of Affect

• Author: Svidén, Gunilla
• Subjects: Behavior ; Clinical medicine ; Cognition & reasoning ; Education ; Nonverbal communication ; Occupational therapy ; Studies
• Is Part Of: OTJR (Thorofare, N.J.), 1995-04, Vol.15 (2), p.85-102
• Description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the ways in which occupational therapy students (n=13) say they would respond to patients' nonverbal communication of affect. Students viewed three silent videotapes of patients in treatment on two occasions: at the beginning of their occupational therapy education and after one and a half years of study. The results indicate that after having been active in a new social context, occupational therapy education, students' comments showed evidence of change: This change may be regarded as cognitive in nature because comments became more differentiated and organized. Whether this structural development is related to development from a functional point of view, i.e., comments reflecting a more sensitive adaptation to the patient's feelings, is analyzed based on Burleson's model for the production of comforting strategies. Educational implications are discussed.
  
• Publisher: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
  
• Language: English
  
• Identifier: ISSN: 1539-4492
  ISSN: 0276-1599
  EISSN: 1938-2383
  DOI: 10.1177/153944929501500202
  
• Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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