Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Include the following sections
- ApplicationofCourseKnowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
- Provide one example of how therapeutic communication techniques differ between nurses and psychiatric mental health practitioners (PMHNPs).
- Select one verbal component of therapeutic communication. Discuss the importance of the component in relation to the overall goal of a therapeutic alliance.
- Select one nonverbal component of therapeutic communication. Discuss the importance of the component in relation to the overall goal of a therapeutic alliance.
- Discuss one pitfall to avoid when establishing a therapeutic alliance. Identify strategies the PMHNP can use to avoid this pitfall.
- Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations.
- Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
- Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
