USING TEXT REMINISCENCES IN VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Barriers in Verbal Communication

The paper presents the main barriers in oral verbal communication both in sending and receiving the messages. These barriers reduce the role of the verbal component in communication. After the analysis of Shannon and Weaver's model with its strengths and weaknesses, we have identified the barriers which may complete their model.

Reminiscences

Disclosures: Eli Glatstein: Consultant/advisory role: Thomson Reuters (on lung cancer for computer advice for patients). The content of this article has been reviewed by independent peer reviewers to ensure that it is balanced, objective, and free from commercial bias. No financial relationships relevant to the content of this article have been disclosed by the independent peer reviewers. My ac...

Non - Verbal Communication Vs

Mindreading and Verbal Communication

In this paper, I illustrate how children’s mentalizing abilities interface with both implicit and explicit aspects of communication. I use two examples to make this point. First, I argue that some understanding that other people have mental states which can be affected by communication is present already in infancy. I show that this early sensitivity to intentionality is responsible for early c...

Overcoming the absence of tone and non-verbal elements of communication in text-based cybercounselling.

Understanding is critical to productive interactions, good communication and therapeutic change. Clients may understand the meanings of words a professional uses but not what the professional intends. If both the client and the professional simply assume that the other will understand their intention because the words are understood, the meanings of the words may come into dispute. This, in tur...