Interaction Symbolic on the Therapeutic Communication between Midwife and Patient

DOI

10.2991/icest-17.2017.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

interaction symbolic, therapeutic interaction, communication, midwife involvement

Abstract

The implementation of social interaction pattern between midwife and patients is important to explore due to the interaction is expected to be more effective helping for delivering baby process. This study aims to describe the implementation of social interaction by the midwife to the patient during the delivering baby, which is attributed to the model of therapeutic communication as a medium for efficient interaction through symbolic interactions. The method used in this research is qualitative obtained using digital internet research. Achievement of interaction pattern between midwife and patient is based on the therapeutic communication. The meaning is derived from pre interactions, which showed that the strategic steps undertaken by a midwife before beginning the interaction, the midwife prepared knowledge by analyzing the patient's book profile. Midwife visited the patients by greetings while asking the patient's condition politely in the introduction phase. Midwife constantly evaluated the patients' condition after social treatment in work phase. Midwife concluded that results of the patient progress during the treatment. The midwife made herself as therapeutics through various techniques of social interaction by optimal communication and changing the patient's behavior in a positive direction through the strengthening of the values of local wisdom that has become a tradition.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ms. Indirawaty
AU  - Mr. Syamsuddin
AU  - Mr. S. Rustadi
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Interaction Symbolic on the Therapeutic Communication between Midwife and Patient
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Science, and Technology (ICEST 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 58
EP  - 60
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icest-17.2017.20
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