Caring Communication is an important part of client care. With caring communication we can assess how to care for our clients needs in a genuine caring way. There are five components to caring communication and they are openness, empathy, supportiveness, positiveness and equality. With these five components to caring, we are able to provide to our clients a sense of worth, value, and dignity.
● Openness is when a good communicator is willing to share personal thoughts and feelings about ones self that pertain to the conversation they are having with a person, but making sure you keep the conversation about the persons experiences and not your own.
● To show empathy is to put yourself in a persons position, to feel as they might feel. To try and understand the feelings they are …show more content…
My parents decided they wanted to quit smoking. When they told this to me, I told them how happy and proud of them I was of them for wanting to make this change in their lives I let them know that I wanted to support them by helping doing more around the house and if they ever wanted to talk and share anything with me about what they were going through, that I would be there to listen. My brother came to me and told me he was going to be a father and that he was scared and nervous about it. I started to talk to him about when I went through the same thoughts and feelings. We shared our thoughts and emotions about fatherhood. I let him know it was normal to feel what he was feeling and I reassured him that he would be a great father. When I go to visit my grandmother, she loves to talk about her past. During our conversations, I give her my undivided attention and make plenty of eye contact. I ask her questions about the topics of discussion. I try to share with her some of my similar experiences to show that we have some common