What a stressful time the past few weeks of my life have been....I had to deal with a suicide, death in the family and lost my best friend to cancer. If that was not enough, my dad suddenly fell ill with cancer too. His brother has also been diagnosed and there is nothing they can do for them.
I reflect upon the classes regarding the probing and I wished that my situation was better at that time, I miss understood the assignment and got such a poor mark. Although I used the examples that were given in our textbook, it was not enough.
I really feel that probing and utilizing the technique forms is an important part of a consultation. I really benefitted from going back to this assignment and tried to make some of the principles applicable to my daily consultation.
In business practice we compiled an assignment upon barrier of the communication process. These topics aligned well with each other in the sense that all started working together. The communication barriers, probing phrases and questions work well together in the clinical setting. I think that correct probing will cancel a lot of the barriers, we as practitioners encounter.
I might add it helped me personally through this difficult time, asking questions and answering others.
