At 07:20 PM 2/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>You write
>"The thread so far seems confusing. There are two distinct
>arguments that seem to me to be mutually exclusive. a) the
>therapist should be clinically competent, by whatever
>definition of skill you use, and b) they should be capable
>communicators"
>
>Not mutually exclusive at all. While one may be clinically
>skillful, they could not be considered "competent" unless
>also artful in interpersonal skills and as a communicator. For
>without these skills as well, clinical skills will not be as
>successfully translated/transferred to the recipient client,
>and thus the best results obtained. Clinical expertise, in a
>vacumn, leaves alot lacking. It's not about being nice as
>much as it is about being capable of relating to others on an
>interpersonal level.
>
>David Perry, PT
>Perry Therapeutics
>
I couldn't agree more!
Not only will interpersonal skills successsfully translate/transfer to the
recipient client those clinical skills, but also without such interpersonal
skills, one cannot extract accurately from the client his/her actual status
-- the subjective 80% database for diagnosis (PT diagnosis, by Goodman).
Nora Amabella C. Macatol, PT
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