Preferred Psychological Services, LLC

Preferred Psychological Services, LLC
GA
ph: 470-253-7252
fax: 800-397-1710

pps@preferredpsychologicalservices.com

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COMMON COMMUNICATION ERRORS

  • Dwelling too much in the past
  • Talking too much about one subject
  • Thinking about what you are going to say instead of listening
  • Focusing excessively on problems
  • Being ctitical about something that could be undone
  • Getting emotional and losing your temper
  • Sending conflicting messages
  • Bad timing, choosing the wrong time to discuss a "hot" issue
  • Failure to consider the other person's perspective
  • Distorting or disqualifying the other person's message
  • Telling lies, not leveling with the other person
  • Trying to mindread and telling the other person what he or she thinks or feels
  • Failing to take advantage of feedback
  • Insensitivity to the feelings behind the words
  • Revealing impatience, irritation, or hostility
  • Overestimating the other person's statements in terms of what you want them to mean rather than in the way they were intended
  • Moving rapidly from one topic to another
  • Being either quick to defend or to offer resolution to what one thinks the problem may be and not really listening in the sense of hearing and understanding the main points
  • Becoming frustrated, angry, and insensitive to each other's feelings in such a way that leads to blaming, critizing, and negative perceptions of the other's behavior that is then seen as a character flaw
  • Generalizations such as: always and never
  • Being passive or aggressive with reponses instead of utilizing assertive responses
  • Interrupting
  • Monopolizing
  • Speaking for the other person

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Preferred Psychological Services, LLC
GA
ph: 470-253-7252
fax: 800-397-1710

pps@preferredpsychologicalservices.com