Unit 1 Affective communication

by marie1913 (student)

Affective communication is how you communicate with someone or something either with or about affect. An example of affective communication is a crying child in need of his mother so the mother has to go and comfort the child as both of them are involve in affective communication. They are different kind of affective communication such as text messages using a mobile phone and also communicating using facial expression. Communicating with people is very important as it makes you understand each other more and know how each other’s feelings are. Affective communication is important in health and social care because it depends on the job you do but which ever job you still need to have good communication skills because people might not understand what are might be trying to tell them which will cause a miss understanding. Effective communication might take place in a care home between the patient and the career it is important that the carer understand the patient well as it would make it easier for the carer to communicate with the patient and it takes place when the patient needs help going to the toilet the patient would ask the carer to help him or her to stand up or maybe use hand gestures if the patient finds it hard to speak. The barrier to communication is about how a person understands each other and if it can cause any barriers. An example is if somebody sends a message to another person and the person receives the message differently it can cause a big problem.

A group communication is between one or more people interacting together or maybe discussing an issue. This is important because it helps people understand and get to know each other more. an example of a group communication is when a teach asks you get together in pairs or more to discuss about whether English is the best subject it is important to keep in track and not get distracted so that you will know what each other are saying so that you won’t get confused which can cause a misunderstanding.

Informal communication is often used between friends who know each other ...

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Informal communication is often used between friends who know each other so they don’t really speak proper English they speak what you call slang which is not perfect English. An example of this is when two friends that really know each other have a conversation with each other they won’t use proper English like “what you up to” they would cut it short to “wuu2”.

Formal communication can be considered as communication efforts that are “dressed up” to fit customary rules and ceremony For example, in a written letter, the formal communication style will demand that the layout of the piece of written communication follow a specific format that includes the date, header, and salutation, body of the letter, close and also signature.

Communication between colleagues is when people that work in the same workplace interact together. This is often used when one or more people need help with something to do with work such as needing help to write an essay you would either ask somebody that you work with or your boss what you have to do. So this is engaging in a conversation that has a goof contribution to affective communication. Communication with colleagues doesn’t always have to mean talking about work it can be an informal conversation because the colleagues might know each other. When discussing issues with work colleagues it is important to keep a written record of it so that it could be used as evidence in a meeting.

Communication between professionals and service users it is important that whenever a professional speaks with a person they need to use appropriate language so that they understand. It is important that professionals use by providing information about services in a range of languages and formats so that it will be easier for those that don’t understand English properly and to make it even more easier they can also use facial expressions to ensure that the service users receive the best care.

Interpersonal interaction

Interpersonal interaction is an affect that two or more people may have upon one another. An example of this is if a patient in a hospital doesn’t know how to speak English and the carer of the patient didn’t know this the carer will first need to go to the head of the hospital to get more information about the patient that she will be looking after so that it doesn’t cause any misunderstanding anywhere. To enable that the carer makes sure that the patient understands what she says, she will be using pictures to try and speak to the patient. This might be used affectively in health and social care because

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