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Communication and interpersonal skills in social work / Juliet Koprowska.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 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.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.32 KOP
LOC classification:
  • HV29.7
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 361.32 KOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209125
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 361.32 KOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209124
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 361.32 KOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209123

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.

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