COMMUNICATION WEEK 3

Communicating Differently

 As a Child Protective Social Worker I have often found my self communicating differently with people who are not from my culture or group. I feel that I do this because I am trying to show the family that I can communicate on their level. Sometimes this is hard when you have families who try to manipulate you with their threats of who they know, how much they know, and tell you How DSS needs to do their job and get out of their life.

The ways I communicate different is my tone, my body language, posture, my eye contact, and the words I use to communicate with the family. As we all know all of our families are not as educated as we are so we must communicate at a level they can understand.

Also when I am dealing with a family who has a different culture than that of the US I tried to understand why they do what they do, what is important to them and what is not. In some cultures eye contact is considered disrespectful so we must be careful of that.

Television Show

 I watch the television show “Scandal”. This is a show I barely watch because I have heard so much negativity about it. So I chose not to watch it. The episode it which I did watch had to do Olivia meeting a guy that seemed to be really interested in her and her in him. Through out the episode  Olivia’s new found Lover continuously met with a gentleman who I  thought was trying to have Olivia killed  or something.

After watching the movie with the sound I realized that the new Lover in Olivia’s life was paid to meet her by her father and was also being watched in order to be killed. I think the only misconceptions  I had about the  non verbal cues were who her father was in the beginning. I thought he was just another disgruntle client wanting her dead.

Week 1 EDUC 6165 Communication

For your blog this week, think of someone (e.g., family member, celebrity, politician, friend, or professor) who demonstrates competent communication within a particular context. What behaviors does this person exhibit that make him or her effective? Would you want to model some of your own communication behaviors after this person? Why or why not?

I would have to chose my mother for this weeks blog. The reason why I would chose her is because she is a women who has shown me what it means to live life as a true christian. She is humble, loving, helping, meek, and all the things that Christ requires us to be.  Sure she makes mistakes, but I can honestly say I have seen her love her enemies in spite of  what they have done to her, help those who have persecuted her and help those who are in  need. So I would love to  model her meek spirit in communicating  with others. I realize that I have a strong tone and sometimes that tone is taken out of context and it is also seen as intimidating, but I do not mean for it to be.