Communication. Health and social settings involve lots of different settings such as hospitals, residential homes and counselling.

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Interpersonal interactions are all the behaviours that can be given or/and received from individuals while interacting to one another. However communication consists of transferring information to one another in a verbal or non-verbal way. There are different types of communications, verbal and non verbal. A verbal communication is made up out of the use of sounds and language that relays a message conversely a non verbal communication is mostly visual and send through things like gestures touch, by body language or posture most importantly by facial expression and eye contact .

For any communication to be effective the receiver should understand the propose of the senders message. The only way in which this may failed is if there are any barriers. Barriers such as emotions, lack of subject’s knowledge or the choice of environment can interfere the communication purpose. For example if there is a lot of background noise, it could affect how individuals try to send and receive a message. The sender may have clearly stated their point verbally however the receiver may not hear what the sender is saying due to the noise.

Health and social settings involve lots of different settings such as hospitals, residential homes and counselling. Professionals such as nurses, therapists and care workers work in such settings.

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Questions are important in a health and social setting as it is an effective way of communicating, this is because it widens the subject of a conversation. There are two types of questions, open questions require patients to extend their answer. This kind of question is mostly used when there is not enough exchange going on between the patient and the professional. These type of questions forces an answered to be a few words longer then a closed question. For example ‘How have you and your mother been? ‘This open question allows the individual to explain the given answer ...

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