Medical Office Management Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. language includes the unconscious body movements, gestures, and facial expressions that accompany speech.
  2. 4. brokering the act of bridging, linking, or mediating between groups or person through the process of reducing conflict or producing change.
  3. 6. mechanisms behavior that is used to protect the ego from guilt, anxiety, or loss of esteem.
  4. 9. focus relates to whether the patient's attitude toward life is future, present, or past.
  5. 11. using some keys to successful communication promotes effective communication.
  6. 14. an attempt to withdraw from an unpleasant circumstance by retreating to an earlier, more secure stage of life.
  7. 18. of needs a group of persons or tings arranged in order of rank, grade, class, etc.
  8. 19. involves an attempt to conceal or repress the true feeling or message.
  9. 22. statements prove helpful in facilitating therapeutic communication.
  10. 25. communication uses few environmental idioms to convey an idea.
  11. 26. questions encourage therapeutic communication because the patient is required to verbalize more information.
  12. 27. the subconscious transfer of unacceptable emotions, thoughts, or feelings from one's self to a more acceptable external substitute.
  13. 29. includes the unconscious body movements, gestures, and facial expressions that accompany a speech.
  14. 30. creating the message to be sent
  15. 31. communication differs from normal communication in that it introduces an element of empathy into what can be a traumatic experience for the patient.
Down
  1. 2. refusal to accept painful information that is readily apparent to others.
  2. 3. the grouping of nonverbal messages into statements or conclusions.
  3. 5. similar to denial, but is a totally subconscious reaction.
  4. 7. a pattern of many concepts, beliefs, values, habits, skills, instruments, and art of a given group of people in a given period.
  5. 8. the channeling of a socially unacceptable behavior into a socially acceptable behavior.
  6. 10. acting in ways designed to make amends or to cancel out inappropriate behavior.
  7. 12. an opinion or judgement that is formed before all the facts are known.
  8. 13. a slant toward a particular belief.
  9. 15. close communication and prevent quality care of the total person.
  10. 16. a conscious or subconscious overemphasizing of a characteristic to offset a real or imagined deficiency.
  11. 17. interpret
  12. 18. communication relies on body language, reference to environmental objects, and culturally relevant phraseology to communicate an idea.
  13. 20. listening involves listening with a third ear, that is, being aware of what the patient is not saying or picking up on hints to the real message by observing body language.
  14. 21. the mind's way of making unacceptable behavior or events acceptable by devising a rational reason.
  15. 23. techniques knowing how to encourage the best communication between themselves and the patient.
  16. 24. questions can be answered by using yes or no.
  17. 28. attributing unacceptable desires, impulses, and thoughts falsely to others to avoid acknowledging they are actually the person's experiences.