THE INFLUENCE OF PROTECTION MASKS ON THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, WITH REGARDS FACIAL EXPRESSIVENESS
THE INFLUENCE OF PROTECTION MASKS ON THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, WITH REGARDS FACIAL EXPRESSIVENESS

Author(s): Livia Durac
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies, Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: mask; facial expressiveness; therapeutic communication; nonverbal;
Summary/Abstract: Among the novelty elements that contributed to the thorough rethinking of human life between 2020-2022, a central role was played by an object with a protective role: the mask. If humankind learned numerous rules, notions, concepts, evolution algorithms of COVID-19, etc., of which some either changed along the way or were abandoned and replaced with others, the obligation of wearing a mask has remained an important constant from the beginning and all through the period. In counterbalance, the positive effects – intensely disputable and discussed – of wearing this object have generated consequences at various levels of our personal and social life, including the therapeutic context, which is the object of the present article. Starting from a series of theoretical considerations on the communication between the specialist and the client/beneficiary, the role of the non-verbal dimension of language at the level of facial expressiveness is approached, with an accent, at the end, of several relevant aspects for the way in which the perception of the message is influenced under the authority of the protection mask.

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