We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The Principles of Supportive Communication: A Critical Perspective.
- Authors
GRADINARU, Ioan-Alexandru
- Abstract
My paper focuses on the concept of supportive communication. While several authors have proposed a list of principles of supportive communication, a review of the most relevant literature on the matter reveals a bewildering complexity. What was initially thought as a straightforward interaction, easily understandable within the theoretical frame of social support, proved to be a much more intricate process, involving verbal, paraverbal and nonverbal content, facework, cognitive heuristics and contextual factors. The problem-focused paradigm has been complemented with the emotion-focused one, and Brant Burleson offered a very useful tool by distinguishing among Low Person- Centeredness, Moderately Person-Centeredness and Highly Person-Centeredness. Along other refined tools, the latter distinction will allow us to have a better grasp of this process and to find better ways to increase the positive outcomes.
- Subjects
SUPPORTIVE communication; SOCIAL support; CONTEXTUAL analysis; HEURISTIC; EMOTION-focused therapy
- Publication
Argumentum: Journal the Seminar of Discursive Logic, Argumentation Theory & Rhetoric, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 1, p138
- ISSN
1583-2767
- Publication type
Article