Progress in Mastery of Counseling Communication Skills

Abstract. This article describes the development and evaluation of a new instrument for the assessment of oral counseling communication skills, the Communication Skills Progress Test (CSPT). The first aim of this study was to investigate the reliability, dimensionality, and discriminant power of the CSPT. The second aim was to examine whether trainees show progress in their mastery of counseling communication skills after taking a course in basic counseling communication skills and a course in advanced counseling communication skills. The CSPT is designed as a video test. With this test students have to demonstrate their mastery of the separate communication skills. A total of 454 psychology students took the CSPT, either before (T0) or after a course in basic counseling communication skills (T1), or after a course in advanced counseling communication skills (T2). Furthermore, 103 psychology students took the CSPT at T0, T1 and T2; 26 students served as a control group. We found two factors underlying the CSPT, a Basic Skill Factor and an Advanced Skill Factor. The interrater reliability and internal consistency of these factors were high. As expected, students who took the basic course showed more progress on the Basic Skill Factor than the students in the control group. After the course in advanced counseling communication skills their scores on the Advanced Skill Factor improved substantially. These findings support the discriminant power of the CSPT. The main conclusion is that the CSPT assesses the progress of the mastery in communication skills in a reliable and valid manner.

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Effect of Communication Skills Training Program for Oncologists Based on Patient Preferences for Communication When Receiving Bad News: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of Clinical Oncology ◽

10.1200/jco.2013.51.2756 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 32 (20) ◽

pp. 2166-2172 ◽

Cited By ~ 91

Author(s):

Maiko Fujimori ◽

Yuki Shirai ◽

Mariko Asai ◽

Kaoru Kubota ◽

Noriyuki Katsumata ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Communication Skills ◽

Patient Preferences ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Skills Training ◽

Control Group ◽

Communication Skills Training ◽

Communication Performance

Purpose The aim of this study was to identify the effects of a communication skills training (CST) program for oncologists, developed based on patient preferences regarding oncologists' communication. Participants and Methods Thirty oncologists were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (IG; 2-day CST workshop) or control group (CG). Participants were assessed on their communication performance during simulated consultation and their confidence in communicating with patients at baseline and follow-up. A total of 1,192 patients (response rate, 84.6%) who had consultations with the participating oncologists at baseline and/or follow-up were assessed regarding their distress using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, satisfaction with the consultation, and trust in their oncologist after the consultation. Results At the follow-up survey, the performance scores of the IG had improved significantly, in terms of their emotional support (P = .011), setting up a supportive environment (P = .002), and ability to deliver information (P = .001), compared with those of the CG. Oncologists in the IG were rated higher at follow-up than those in the CG in terms of their confidence in themselves (P = .001). Patients who met with oncologists after they had undergone the CST were significantly less depressed than those who met with oncologists in the CG (P = .027). However, the CST program did not affect patient satisfaction with oncologists' style of communication. Conclusion A CST program based on patient preferences is effective for both oncologists and patients with cancer. Oncologists should consider CST as an approach to enhancing their communication skills.

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Reliability and Responsiveness of Two Physical Performance Measures Examined in the Context of a Functional Training Intervention

Physical Therapy ◽

10.1093/ptj/80.1.8 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 80 (1) ◽

pp. 8-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 61

Author(s):

Mary B King ◽

James O Judge ◽

Robert Whipple ◽

Leslie Wolfson

Keyword(s):

Physical Performance ◽

Interrater Reliability ◽

Intraclass Correlation ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Training Intervention ◽

Control Group ◽

Walk Test ◽

Test Retest Reliability ◽

6 Minute Walk Test ◽

Minute Walk

Abstract Background and Purpose. The reliability and responsiveness of 2 physical performance measures were assessed in this nonrandomized, controlled pilot exercise intervention. Subjects. Forty-five older individuals with mobility impairment (mean age=77.9 years, SD=5.9, range=70–92) were sequentially assigned to participate in an exercise program (intervention group) or to a control group. Methods. The intervention group performed exercise 3 times a week for 12 weeks that targeted muscle force, endurance, balance, and flexibility. Outcome measures were the 8-item Physical Performance Test (PPT-8) and the 6-minute walk test. Test-retest reliability and responsiveness indexes were determined for both tests; interrater reliability was measured for the PPT-8. Results. The intraclass correlation coefficient for interrater reliability for the PPT-8 was .96. Intraclass correlation coefficients for test-retest reliability were .88 for the PPT-8 and .93 for the 6-minute walk test. The intervention group improved 2.4 points and the control group improved 0.7 point on the PPT-8, as compared with baseline measurements. There was no change in 6-minute walk test distance in the intervention group when compared with the control group. The responsiveness index was .8 for the PPT-8 and .6 for the 6-minute walk test. Conclusion and Discussion. Measurements for both the PPT-8 and the 6-minute walk test appeared to be highly reliable. The PPT-8 was more responsive than the 6-minute walk test to change in performance expected with this functional training intervention.

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Effects of Dog-Assisted Therapy on the Physical Function and Communication Skills of Adults with Autism: A Study Protocol for a Controlled Study

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app112210650 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (22) ◽

pp. 10650

Author(s):

Isabel Gómez-Calcerrada ◽

Ana Myriam Lavín-Pérez ◽

Santos Villafaina ◽

Juan Carlos Rueda-Rubio ◽

Beatriz Rivera-Martín ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Communication Skills ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Controlled Study ◽

Control Group ◽

Adults With Autism ◽

Treatment As Usual ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Adults With Asd ◽

Gait Posture

Background and Objectives: Despite the scientific evidence of the positive effects of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it is not still considered an evidence-based practice for this population. The proposed study will aim to evaluate the effects of a dog-assisted therapy program on gait, posture, and communication skills. Materials and Methods: A total of 24 adults with ASD will participate in this non-randomized controlled trial. The experimental group will involve 12 participants who will receive AAT for 10 weeks, at two sessions per week. The focus of these sessions will be conducting different activities and physical exercises, facilitated by dogs. The control group will receive treatment as usual. The outcome measures will be the ability to walk and climbing stairs, balance, risk of falls and communication skills. Conclusions: The role of dogs as facilitators of the movement may lead to relevant benefits in the gait, posture and communication skills of adults with ASD, improving their ability to perform activities of daily living.

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PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN THINK TALK WRITE (TTW) TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN KOMUNIKASI MATEMATIS SISWA

MES: Journal of Mathematics Education and Science ◽

10.30743/mes.v4i2.1295 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 190-195

Author(s):

Fitri Ramadhani ◽

Delima Septiani

Keyword(s):

Middle School ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Hypothesis Test ◽

Control Group ◽

Learning Models ◽

Mathematical Communication ◽

Control Group Design ◽

Group Design ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Better Than

Abstract. The purpose of this study was to determine the mathematical communication skills of class VII students at Muhammadiyah Middle School in Pasir Penyu. This type of research is a Quasi Experiment with the design of Randomized Subject Posttest-Only Control Group Design. The data analysis technique in this test uses the t-test. Based on the calculation of the hypothesis test shows the significant value of the sample class is 0.003 <0.05. Based on these results, H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. So it can be concluded that the mathematical communication skills of students using the think talk write learning model is better than the mathematical communication skills of students using conventional learning models in class VII in the middle school Muhammadiyah Pasir Penyu.Keywords: Mathematical Communication, Think Talk Write

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KOMUNIKASI VERBAL ANAK PESISIR USIA 7-8 TAHUN PADA TRANSAKSI PENJUALAN PRODUK KEBUDAYAAN DENGAN TURIS MANCANEGARA

JPUD - Jurnal Pendidikan Usia Dini ◽

10.21009//jpud.121.02 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 12-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edhy Rustan ◽

Subhan Subhan

Keyword(s):

Second Language ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Data Model ◽

Communication Skill ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Spoken Word ◽

Communication Patterns ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Two Factors

This study aims to obtain a description of children’s second language verbal communication skills aged 7-8 years in the activity of buying and selling transactions with foreign tourists. This research was conducted in South Coastal Coast of Central Lombok Regency of West Nusa Tenggara. This research is a qualitative study of case study by Milles and Hubberman model data analysis technique with four stages of interalain analysis (1) data collection, (2) data reduction, (3) data display and (4) drawing conclusion. The results of this study indicate that the verbal communication skills of coastal children are obtained partially covering three linguistic components; vocabulary, shipping and grammatical arrangement. The process of acquiring verbal communication skills is influenced by two factors, namely family pressure and self-exposure of children to the coastal tourism environment that encourages children to sell cultural products to foreign tourists. For these purposes, coastal children use two common patterns of second language verbal communication, ie direct verbal communication patterns (spoken word) and indirect verbal communication patterns (writing word). Keyword: Verbal communication skill, Children aged 7-8 years. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memeroleh gambaran kemampuan komunikasi verbal bahasa kedua anak usia 7-8 tahun dalam kegiatan transaksi jual beli dengan turis mancanegara. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Pesisir Pantai Selatan Kabupaten Lombok Tengah Nusa Tenggara Barat. Penelitian ini adalah studi kasus dengan teknik analisis data model Milles dan Hubberman dengan empat tahapan analisis yang meliputi (1) pengumpulan data, (2) reduksi data, (3) display data, dan (4) penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan komunikasi verbal anak pesisir pantai cenderung diperoleh secara parsial; mencakup tiga komponen kebahasaan antaralain kosakata, pelafalan dan susunan gramatikal. Adapun proses pemerolehan kemampuan komunikasi verbal tersebut dipengaruhi oleh dua faktor yaitu tekanan keluarga dan ekspos diri anak pada lingkungan pariwisata pantai yang mendorong anak untuk berjualan produk-produk kebudayaan kepada para turis mancanegara. Untuk kepentingan tersebut, anak pesisir pantai menggunakan dua pola umum komunikasi verbal bahasa kedua, yaitu pola komunikasi verbal langsung (spoken word) dan pola komunikasi verbal tidak langsung (writing word). Kata Kunci: kemampuan komunikasi verbal, anak usia 7-8 tahun

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Effectiveness of a Human Capacity-building Initiative on Improving the Health of Rural Communities

10.21203/rs.3.rs-269478/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hamed Rezakhani Moghaddam ◽

Vahideh Aghamohammadi ◽

Aghil Habibi ◽

Yousef Hamidzadeh

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Health Workers ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Control Group ◽

Control Group Design ◽

Job Motivation ◽

Knowledge And Practice

Abstract Background: Given the major role of capacity building in improving the health of rural communities and due to the lack of studies performed on this issue, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of educational and capacity building intervention on staff communication, job motivation skills, educational performance, and knowledge and behavior of health house clients in Ardabil city’s rural communities.Methods: The pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design was conducted. In this study, convenience sampling was performed and a total of 220 health care recipients and 108 staff were surveyed in both interventional and control groups. The intervention was designed based on four approaches for capacity building introduced by Crisp et al. Data were collected using three questionnaires including knowledge and practice about healthy lifestyle, communication skills self-assessment, and Wright's job motivation. All statistical analyses were fulfilled using IBM SPSS Statistics software.Results: At the end of the study; the mean scores of knowledge and practice of referrals to health centers about a healthy lifestyle and communication skills and job motivation of healthcare worker increased statistically in the intervention group compared to the baseline (p< 0.05), but changes in these variables were not significant in the control group (p>0.05). Following 3 months of intervention, there were significant differences among the study groups (p< 0.05).Conclusion: Capacity building comprehensive interventions can help in identifying rural community health needs, increasing knowledge and practice of rural communities' residents about health issues, promoting health workers empowerment, and improving health workers' motivation.

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Psychological Correlates of Achievement Motivation on the Personal-meaning Level

KnE Life Sciences ◽

10.18502/kls.v4i8.3272 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

D Berdnikova

Keyword(s):

Training Program ◽

Achievement Motivation ◽

Psychology Students ◽

Value Orientations ◽

Personal Meaning ◽

General Level ◽

Control Group ◽

Psychological Correlates ◽

Wide Range ◽

Self Actualization

This article is devoted to the study of psychological correlates of the achievement motivation on the personal-meaning level of the first-year psychology students. The author revealed a wide range of psychological correlates of achievement motivation: value orientations (universal values, power, self-development, etc.), the parameters of existential fulfillment (self-transcendence, freedom, etc.) and the general level of life meaningfulness, self-actualization parameters (creativity, self-acceptance, spontaneity, etc.). Based on the conducted correlation research, the author developed a training program aimed at actualization and growth in the motivation of the firstyear psychology students. The study involved experimental and control groups. Inthe course of the study, when comparing the data of preliminary and final testing, the dynamics of achievement motivation indicators in the experimental group was revealed in the direction of increasing the achievement motivation, while in the control group there were no significant differences in the level of achievementmotivation, which indicates the effectiveness of the training developed by author. At the same time, it is shown that the growth of the achievement motivation occurred due to the growth of its transcendent component, which is a good indicator, since psychology students with high motivation of transcendence are predominantlyoriented toward acquiring knowledge and mastering the profession. The data obtained in the study enriches author’s understanding of the psychological phenomenon, such as achievement motivation, and have applied significance: the training program developed by the author can be used to increase the achievement motivation of students and can also be tested on another contingent. Keywords: achievement motivation, value orientations, existential fulfillment, self-actualization, psychology students

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Hyponatremia in the rat in the absence of positive water balance.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ◽

10.1681/asn.v84524 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 524-529

Author(s):

M Gowrishankar ◽

C B Chen ◽

S Cheema-Dhadli ◽

A Steele ◽

M L Halperin

Keyword(s):

Water Balance ◽

Isotonic Saline ◽

Extracellular Fluid ◽

Free Water ◽

Control Group ◽

High Concentration ◽

Additional Control ◽

Two Factors ◽

Negative Balance ◽

Usual Diet

The purpose of this report is to determine the mechanisms that lead to hyponatremia when isotonic saline was the only fluid infused into rats given antidiuretic hormone (ADH), and what might minimize the degree of this hyponatremia. Normal rats were deprived of food and water for the 24-hr study period. They received an infusion of isotonic saline to expand their extracellular fluid (ECF) volume with and without exogenous ADH administration (N = 8 in each of the four groups). Similar studies were also carried out in 32 rats fed a low electrolyte diet for 72 hr before the experiment. An additional control group was fed the low electrolyte diet supplemented with sodium (Na), potassium (K), and chloride (Cl). Hyponatremia developed over 24 hr in rats fed their usual diet if treated with ADH and isotonic saline (fall, 13 +/- 2 mM, P < 0.01). The hyponatremia was caused by negative balance for Na + K salts. Hyponatremia did not develop after the saline + ADH treatment if rats were pretreated for 3 days with a low electrolyte diet. Two factors were required to develop this hyponatremia--generation of electrolyte-free water as a result of the excretion of a large quantity of Na + K salts at a high concentration in the urine, and prevention of the excretion of this electrolyte-free water by ADH. Increasing the avidity for Na reabsorption by the kidney prevented this type of hyponatremia from developing.

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Effect of GI and Glogster on Improving the Intercultural Communication Skills in Higher Education

Multicultural Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9279-2.ch027 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 576-604

Author(s):

Ghada M. Awada ◽

Hassan B. Diab ◽

Kawthar H. Faour

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

International Students ◽

Experimental Design ◽

Intercultural Communication ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Intercultural Sensitivity ◽

Control Group ◽

Learning Method ◽

Experimental Conditions ◽

Experimental Group

The study reports the effect of group investigation (GI) cooperative learning method and the Glogster online poster on improving the intercultural communication skills of international students (n=54) of eight different countries. The study is premised on the proposition that the integration of GI and Glogster in classrooms consisting of Lebanese and non-Lebanese students could be effective in improving the intercultural communication skills of international students and enhancing their perceptions of intercultural communication. The study employed the mixed methods pretest-posttest control group experimental design whereby six Interactions Among Civilizations intact classes were randomly assigned to control and experimental conditions. Employing the intercultural sensitivity scale yielded findings indicating the significance of the GI and Glogster in developing the cultural adaptability and intercultural sensitivity of the experimental group participants (n=25) whereas the control group participants (n=28) did not show similar improvement.

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Efficacy of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination Training Approach for Training Pharmacy Students in Diabetes Mellitus Counseling: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Pharmacy ◽

10.3390/pharmacy8040229 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 229

Author(s):

Imaneh Farahani ◽

Samieh Farahani ◽

Maira A. Deters ◽

Holger Schwender ◽

Stephanie Laeer

Keyword(s):

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Objective Assessment ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Pharmacy Students ◽

Controlled Study ◽

Control Group ◽

Randomized Controlled ◽

Training Approach

Pharmacists’ tasks are multifaceted and include, for example, vital counseling and communication skills. Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) could be used to train pharmacy students in these skills. Our study sought to determine the efficacy of our OSCE training approach for training pharmacy students’ counseling and communication skills on diabetes mellitus compared to a control group. This randomized controlled study was conducted with pharmacy students using a pre-post-design. The intervention group completed diabetes OSCE training, while the control group solved diabetes patient cases using subjective, objective, assessment, and plan notes. Before and after the respective training, both groups completed OSCEs evaluating counseling and communication skills. Before each OSCE encounter, the participants completed a self-assessment questionnaire and, upon completion of the seminar, filled out a satisfaction survey. The OSCE-trained group demonstrated a significantly greater increase in counseling and communication skills and self-confidence than the control group. Both groups were generally satisfied with the seminar. These results demonstrate that our OSCE training approach allows for the effective training of pharmacy students’ diabetes counseling and communication skills and suggests the inclusion of such a skill-based approach more widely in pharmacy students’ education.

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