title: Differential diagnosis and therapeutic handling of communication barriers.
abstract: Encouragement of open, direct communication between members of a dyad may produce favorable or unfavorable results, depending upon the situation. The author presents a system of classifying communication barriers, designed to help the therapist decide when to encourage open communication and when to support the withholding of communication of certain sorts until other therapeutic goals have been achieved.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*