Professional Communication Reflection

Communicated with professionals and clients- Since I have never worked with patients before this fieldwork, I believe that my communication skills have definitely improved throughout this semester. I tried my hardest to exhibit clear nonverbal and verbal skills during my stay. During my first couple days, I noticed that I had less than positive nonverbal appearance to me. I would stand with my arms crossed or on my hips. I noticed this bad behavior, and I have learned to implicate a better look to me. I believe my educator saw my efforts to communicate as I as received exceptional scores in exhibiting a positive attitude, being respectful of others, and establishing a rapport. All the patients were eager to explain their problems to me. I saw a few patients’ multiple

I tried to be very friendly and approachable for each client, so they can see me as likable. I tried to focus on their reason for therapy; however, a few times they wanted to talk about subjects of their choice. One of the patients wanted to talk about her dog. Twice I tried to deviate from that subject, but the dog was continually brought back up. I figured that I should let her guide what we talked about since I was the visitor to her therapy. After we spoke about that topic, I had built a good rapport, and she told me some personal things about her life. This enforced the aspect that therapy should be client centered as it allows patients to trust the practitioner. I know that I need to improve on identify client strengths and weaknesses before seeing the them. This topic improved every week as I had learned more kinesiology each week. I know that when I was learning about the shoulder when school, I never saw any shoulder patients. At the end, I saw two and the information that I had remembered from previously helped me ask relevant