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Introduction

Specifically, in the 408HSC module, I proceeded to systematically analyze different communication skills and the use of the inclusive practices that are crucial to the provision of efficient and quality public health service delivery. Since this coursework stems from a personal attitudes and perception of interpersonal communication, the sequence followed by the coursework includes: self- analysis of interpersonal communication assets and liabilities, followed by, a focused study on the various types of interpersonal communication, aspects such as verbal and nonverbal culture in public health communication, and the importance of Egan’s SOLER model in interpersonal communication. Following weeks encompassed knowledge of language and cultural issues and its impact on service improvements, biases and stereotyping in ethnic health care and finally a crucial evaluation of Mental Health Act 2007. They also learned about cultural competence that was complemented by considerations of socio-legal factors affecting public health policies and practices. This module provided a good example throughout the integration of theoretical models with practical aspects of the sector’s practice, which enabled understanding of the multifaceted nature of the work, as well as the tools for personal and professional development.

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Key strengths and weaknesses as a communicator

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Week: 1 What are your key strengths and weaknesses as a communicator?

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Week: 1 What are your key strengths and weaknesses as a communicator?

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Exploring My Communication Strengths and Areas for Improvement

Understanding My Role as a Resource Investigator

In the recent group tasks, I was inclined to perform as the Resource Investigator as this role entails seeking information beyond the team, developing networks, and bringing new concepts into the team. This role suits me because the search for potential and building relationships appeals to me with providing new ideas. Nonetheless, I realised that despite my strength in teaching new information, I often lose focus and fail to make sure ideas get implemented to their logical conclusions.

How I Feel About My Communication Style

As a Resource Investigator, I can sense the desire to get new contacts and involve them into the process, bringing their perspectives into the discussion. Initiating activities, encouraging the involvement of the group, and creating energy is something that I relish in. But I sometimes have slight concern about long term implementation ideas because most of the time I feel bored or demotivated when it comes to implementing great ideas. They go as follows: This leads to some frustration for myself and my teammates, as the designated tasks may be left unfinished or just less organised.

Strengths and Challenges in Communication

Key Strengths

As an Asset Specialist, my key assets incorporate obtaining outside data, building organisations, and presenting new thoughts that empower the group. There is an innate capacity to encourage joint effort and draw in others, establishing a positive and dynamic gathering climate, which contributes fundamentally to group achievement.

Key Weaknesses

While solid in thought age, there is in many cases a battle with finish during the execution stage, prompting loss of concentration and incomplete undertakings. Furthermore, the input circle is some of the time ignored, influencing the group's capacity to successfully execute thoughts.

How I Identified My Strengths and Weaknesses

These qualities and shortcomings became apparent through both self-reflection and input from partners. I was habitually adulated for my excitement and the capacity to offer new points of view that might be of some value. In any case, criticism additionally featured that my center would in general wind down when it came to making significant strides, especially subsequent to meetings to generate new ideas. Pondering these minutes utilising Gibbs' Intelligent Cycle, I understood that while I contribute essentially in producing thoughts, my capacity to drive projects forward during the execution stage requires improvement.

Development Plan

To upgrade my viability as a communicator, I intend to deal with working on my completion abilities. This incorporates embracing organised task the executives apparatuses, like setting updates, breaking bigger undertakings into more modest, sensible parts, and utilizing cooperative applications like Trello to follow progress. Furthermore, I plan to connect all the more effectively with the criticism cycle, guaranteeing that I produce thoughts as well as circle back to their execution. Customary input from my colleagues will assist me with remaining responsible and offer all the more successfully all through all periods of an undertaking.

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Essential Communication Methods and Practices in Public Health

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Week: 2 What methods and practices of communication are essential for working in public health?

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Week: 2 What methods and practices of communication are essential for working in public health?

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Communication Methods in Public Health

General wellbeing correspondence includes both verbal and non-verbal strategies, fundamental for passing on wellbeing messages. Verbal correspondence incorporates up close and personal associations, telemedicine, and online classes, which give continuous trades patients or networks. Be that as it may, correspondence frequently depends on non-verbal signals like non-verbal communication and looks to upgrade message gathering.

Composed correspondence through reports, leaflets, and web-based entertainment is basic for contacting more extensive crowds and guaranteeing message maintenance. The ascent of data innovation has additionally extended the span of general wellbeing messages, empowering fast scattering through sites and virtual entertainment.

Egan's SOLER Framework and Its Impact on Practice

Egan's SOLER model (1975) centers around non-verbal correspondence and undivided attention in wellbeing settings. SOLER represents Sit solidly, Open stance, incline in, eye to eye connection, and unwind, empowering wellbeing experts to establish a steady climate during cooperations.

In my work on, utilising the SOLER structure has worked on quiet communications, particularly with non-English-talking patients. For instance, keeping in touch and utilizing open non-verbal communication assists with beating language obstructions and cause patients to feel comprehended. This lines up with comprehensive practice, where correspondence is adjusted to address the issues of assorted populaces.

Theories and Models of Communication in Public Health

Models such as Shannon-Weaver (1949) supplement SOLER by organizing how data is sent and recognising likely clamor (interruptions) that might contort messages. In general wellbeing, understanding these interferences whether ecological or brought about by misjudged clinical language is imperative to guaranteeing clear and available correspondence.

Additionally, Argyle's Correspondence Cycle (1972) underlines criticism and non-verbal signals in one-on-one correspondence. This repeating model guarantees that general wellbeing experts can affirm whether messages are figured out, making it profoundly powerful in wellbeing training studios or discussions.

Reflective Practice and Cultural Competence

Intelligent models like SOLER feature the significance of social capability in correspondence. Wellbeing experts should be aware of social contrasts, for example, the suitability of eye to eye connection, and change their practices appropriately (Jandt, 2017). While keeping in touch might be conscious in certain societies, it very well may be viewed as angry in others. Intelligent practice permits me to adjust my correspondence style to regard social standards, guaranteeing entrust with different networks.

Conclusion

All in all, compelling general wellbeing correspondence requires a blend of verbal, non-verbal, and composed techniques, upheld by intelligent models like Egan's SOLER. These methodologies guarantee that wellbeing messages are perceived and followed up on. Coordinating correspondence speculations, for example, Shannon-Weaver and Argyle's Correspondence Cycle further improves general wellbeing endeavors by tending to hindrances and advancing inclusivity.

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Week: 3 What barriers are there that influence communication and inclusive practice and how can you overcome these?

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Week: 3 What barriers are there that influence communication and inclusive practice and how can you overcome these?

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Identifying Communication Challenges and Overcoming Barriers

Common Barriers in Communication

Language Barriers: One of the biggest issues in public health communication is the language barrier. The health care provider, for instance, might have communication difficulties when it comes to explaining to the clients from the different parts of the world that do not understand English.

Cultural Norms: There is also the influence of culture on communication processes; the people of Western culture have different ways as do the Arabs. While some behvaiours may be okay in one culture can be considered wrong in another culture.

Implicit Bias: Other barriers include; inadvertent prejudice which is stereotypes that one has never realized are prejudices. Such biases can result in specialization bias where healthcare professionals working with certain type of patients’ might give them inferior service due to their race. For instance, learners from minority will be less noticed, this results in poor interaction and communication.

Environmental Distractions: In a particular clinic, the patients will not be compelled to explain extra essential health issues as they may feel emasculated as a result hence restricting the information presented.

Strategies to Overcome These Barriers

There are important steps towards bilingual patients, they involve offering professional interpreters and use of plain language. Health instructions can also be communicated through the assistance of some features such that those with low literacy can grasp, by the use of visual aids.

One of the strategies to eliminate cross and Culture issues is to educate all the healthcare professionals on how to undertake cultural sensitive communications\nthat can suit patients from different cultures. This not only enhance the discourse but also the levels of trust.

This means self-assessment and bias-reduction trainings for employees of different healthcare levels. Third, diversity policies can eliminate prejudice by encouraging people not to stereotype while accepting or recruiting employees​.

Managing distractions that are environmental calls for forming enclosed and quiet grids for consultations. Makin health care places comfortable and accessible, can greatly facilitate communication.

Reflective Model

Refreezing the application of Kolb’s experiential learning cycle helps healthcare workers in reflecting on their practice with the aim of enhancing the future practice. For example, in the more recent case, a patient who only limited understanding of English had no interpreter to help in explaining medication use. think about this, I understood why the use of translators is so important in order to have successful conclusion of a conversation. From this understanding, I reasoned that making interpreters available should be a priority in such situations

Conclusion

Thus, language, culture, ethnicity, race preferences, and other environmental factors may easily hinder public health practice. Though all the above challenges can be managed by implementing the following strategies that include; cultural competent training, use of interpreter and enhancing healthcare physical surroundings.

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Week: 4 What challenges does working in a diverse setting pose for you?

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Week: 4 What challenges does working in a diverse setting pose for you?

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Navigating the Complexities of Diversity in Healthcare

Communication Obstacles in Diverse Environments

The issues associated with communicating in the healthcare related setting depend on language barriers. It also means that patients and providers from different cultural backgrounds will have different ideas about how to conduct a conversation, and what certain gestures mean. Such differences give rise to confusion, the formulation of ineffective treatment plans, and frustration.

The Impact of Biases and Stereotyping

Another bad is prejudice and stereotyping when it comes to working with diversification. Prejudice involves having negative attitudes towards certain people while stereotype involves assuming that all given category of people, have the same characteristics. These prejudices can in a way influence the delivery of care that is being offered, as people in the healthcare profession are bound to make bias judgments given the race color, gender or age of the patient they are handling.

Systemic Discrimination in Organizations

It refers to a situation where in healthcare policies, strategies or practices are developed and implemented in a way that negatively affect all members of a given group. For example, failure to provide accommodation for religion can mean that a healthcare facility will not admit patients of certain religion. Such policies lead to risk of inequity in the care received and may also likely be against the provision of the Equality Act 2010 that requires services to offer equal service to everyone.

Solutions for Managing Diversity in Healthcare

Promoting Cultural Awareness

The first step to take towards removing communication barriers is the implementation of CRS cultural readiness training. Cultural differences are important in communication, and it is possible to teach healthcare workers various practices and ways that operates in various cultures

Reducing Personal Biases

Minimizing the attitude of the health professional towards the individual patient is important in making fair decisions. In the PCS model (Personal, Cultural, Structural – Thompson), targets racism at the Personal level meaning that racism exists at the various personal levels among the people. Just like any other form of prejudices, healthcare practitioners can undergo constant training sessions of the prejudice, and then practice group and team discussions to eliminate stereotyping.

Implementing Inclusive Policies

At this level of analysis it is important to note that policies should be reviewed and where necessary be updated at a regular basis to fit the diverse population. Adding religious, cultural and personal accommodations into the care framework increase patients’ acceptance and ease their experience.

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Week: 5 What impact does legislation have on those working in public health and how can it promote anti-oppressive practice?

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Week: 5 What impact does legislation have on those working in public health and how can it promote anti-oppressive practice?

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Introduction

Using the reflective framework of Rolfe et al This analysis explores how the Mental Health Act 2007 affects public health workers as well as its potential for fostering anti-oppressive practice in mental health.

What? (Description of the Legislation)

These reforms included the following provisions that have become The Mental Health Act 2007 A number of fundamental changes to mental health care delivery and rights for individuals with mental health problems were made by the Mental Health Act 2007. Key amendments included:

·       Expansion of the list of the categories of people who may become the potential providers of patients’ treatment, for example, psychologists and nurse practitioners.

·       Introducing Supervised Community Treatment, this will help reduce hospital readmission as expressed below.

·       Enhancing patient protection particularly in the areas to do with treatment permissions and the venues to challenge detention.

So What? (Evaluation of the Impact)

Public health practice in the mental health secto has been greatly altered by the amendments brought by the Mental Health Act 2007.

Increased Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The appointment of personnel from diverse areas in health care has enhanced the provision of mental health simultaneously demonstrating increased non-oppressive practice.

Community-based Treatment: By recognizing the provision for community treatment orders, patients are more likely to receive treatment in settings of lower restrictiveness; this in turn augments how treatment is administered with references to anti-oppressive practice’s principle of least restrictiveness.

Enhanced Patient Autonomy:

Due to these changes in consent and appeals for treatment the Act has assumed rights-based approaches and patient autonomy in health care plan of the patients.

Now What? (Action Plan)

Towards the purpose of strengthening the anti-oppressive effects of the Mental Health Act 2007, it is worthwhile the following actions.

Training and Awareness:

Continued training to all mental health personnel about issues of the Act to increase knowledge and practice of the through of the Act.

Policy Review and Feedback Loops: Annual reporting on other policies concerning practices under the Act and engaging patients and health care providers in refining the care process.

Research and Evaluation:  There might be an issue with the effectiveness of the Act when it comes to patient care and recovery, there is very little research done on the subject, and no specific research has been completed on the topic; evaluation of the relationship between social determinants of health and mental health legislation in the context of the Act.

Conclusion

Applying Rolfe et al.’s reflective model to discuss Mental Health Act 2007, it reveals its significant contribution to non oppressive practice in a field of public health. Much progress has been achieved but further work is needed in order to get the legislation realised to the maximum of its potential to reform mental health care and protect patients’ rights.

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week : 6 Learning check-up – what has been the most significant learning from this module and how will this help you to achieve your academic  or professional goals?

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week : 6 Learning check-up – what has been the most significant learning from this module and how will this help you to achieve your academic  or professional goals?

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Week 1: Communication self-assessment was conducted first in order to establish the basic framework of improvement.

Week 2: In the area of communication in public health, I embraced the Egan’s SOLER business acumen and practiced verbal and non- verbal communication appropriate when interacting with the patients.

Week 3: I addressed challenges like language and/or cultural differences and managed to learn when to proceed with professional interpreters and how to stay culturally sensitive.

Week 4: I addressed the issues that diversity has in the health care facilities, more particularly on how eliminating social prejudices would lead to equal treatment.

Week 5: Exploring different service delivery models and critiquing the Mental Health Act 2007, I proposed strategies for anti-oppressive practice.

So What? (Impact and Relevance) Happily, the curriculum of this module has been very rich and quite instructional in many ways.

Refined Communication Skills: The wide range of the communication models have helped me to address the difficulties in interaction and enhance the provided patients’ treatment as well as staff relations.

Enhanced Cultural Competence: I have learned practical approaches to the improvement of communication with fellows, and customers in particular, thus making care delivery culturally competent.

Professional Maturity: The on-goingtype of reflective practice has enhanced the professional development of self- awareness and versatility, which is vital among the constantly shifting terrains of public health.

Now What? (Future Application) Moving ahead, I am committed to utilize and build on this foundation just as aspire for my work in the future.

Ongoing Education: I plan on acquiring additional education in communication and multicultural training so as to make sure that I am on par concerning the current approaches within this specialty.

Policy Engagement: As a result of the courses involved, I will be better equipped to analyze and advocate on policy matters and more generally how health legislation may be changed to improve overall health systems inclusiveness.

Research Endeavors: Performing research and engaging in scholarly studies in areas of public health will be a focus area meant to help me gain practical experience while targeting important changes.

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For the past five weeks, this module 408HSC has immensely enhanced my learning on how best to communicate and also include everyone in the advancement of public health. In Week 1, there was a positive self-reflection as well as some of the potential improvement that led to a personal and professional growth throughout the course. In Week 2, I built my proficiencies of nonverbal communication and active listening while explaining the significance of Egan’s SOLER model. In the Week 3 we discussed the issues related to cultural and linguistic barriers and emphasized the importance of cultural sensitive and adequate communication. The fourth week covered issues of diversity and systemic issues within health and continuing education, as well as the need for policy changes. Last, the legislative focus of Week 5 was exemplified by the observations of the Mental Health Act 2007 in relation to the current practices in healthcare and the role of understanding legislation in public health. Altogether, these weeks have somehow provided me with qualitative approaches and tools for contributing in public health and assisting for more enough and efficient treatment systems.

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