Try: Nonverbal communication is important to communicate with the care recipient successful nonverbal communication depends on your ability to manage stress recognize your own emotions and understand the signals you’re sending and receiving this requires your full concentration and attention you need to stay focused on the moment-to-moment experience in order to fully understand what’s going on one way to have more effective nonverbal communication is to better manage stress stress compromises your ability to communicate when you are stressed out you are more likely to misread other people or you could send off confusing or off-putting nonverbal signals yourself also in order to send and receive accurate nonverbal cues you need to be aware of your emotions a caregiver also needs to be able to recognize the emotions of the cr emotional awareness enables a caregiver to accurately read the cr including the emotions she is feeling and the unspoken messages she is sending create trust in relationships by sending nonverbal signals that match up with your words respond in ways that show the cr that you understand notice and care know if the relationship is meeting your emotional needs giving you the option to either repair the relationship or move on information references helpguide org

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Categories: Behavior Challenging, Cognitive Intellectual, Communication, Emotional Psychological

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Keywords: Communication body language nonverbal

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