Skills 2

According to Karen Bunning there are a totem of  8 key clinical skills:

1. Engagement
 - making sure your client can maintain their attention and aknowledging their       engagement.

2. Modification
- Adapting communication to allow the client to understand, ascribing meaning to the clients responses and checking the clients interpretation.

3. Facilitation
- Encouraging contribution, modelling and requesting a specific response e.g. presenting a picture to elicit a response and assisting contribution.

4. Feedback
- Checking contribution, differential (quality) feedback, evaluative feedback e.g. that was difficult, and summative feedback.

5. Personal Maintenance
- Noticing the clients emotional/behavioural state/ physical needs.

7. Context maintenance
- organising the equipment/ the environment.

8. Transaction
- giving information/ getting information from the client/carer / providing instructions and rationales/ note taking