Communication and interpersonal skills in social work / Juliet Koprowska.
Material type: TextSeries: Transforming social work practice | Transforming social work practicePublication details: Exeter : Learning Matters, 2008.Edition: 2nd edDescription: vii, 179 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781844451531 (pbk.) :
- 9781844451531 (pbk.)
- 361.32 KOP
- HV29.7
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Previous ed.: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index.
1.Communication skills: don\'t they just come naturally? -- 2.What do we know about effective communication? -- 3.The human face of social work: emotional communication -- 4.Getting started -- 5.Making progress and managing endings -- 6.Communicating with children -- 7.Working with families and groups -- 8.Working with people with \'special communication needs\': communicative minorities -- 9.Safety and risk: working with hostility -- 10.The demands and rewards of interpersonal work.
This text aims to help students to identify and address the problems faced in communicating successfully with a range of service users and with other authorities and colleagues. The new social work degree requires all students to learn communication skills and to have those skills assessed.