Discussion Post
• What type of verbal and non-verbal behaviors do you feel help a client become comfortable with sharing their personal information and presenting problem during an interview or assessment?
• Nonverbal communication, also sometimes known as body language, encompasses the various ways people communicate without language. Although verbal, linguistic communication is a unique and vital part of human communication, considerable meaning is communicated nonverbally. Though estimates vary, most communication and relationships researchers agree that nonverbal communication is every bit as important as or more important than verbal communication, particularly in human relationships. The relative significance of verbal and nonverbal communication is not important. What is important is that extensive research shows that the various aspects of nonverbal communication-eye behavior, touch, body movements, interpersonal distance, facial expressions, and all the other components of nonverbal communication, separately or together-are vitally important to human relationships.
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