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Active Listening

A mental crisis hotline intervention technique to reaffirm what the caller says he/she feels

listening [lis´en-ing]

paying attention through hearing.

active listening in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as attending closely to and attaching significance to a patient's verbal and nonverbal messages.

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