Communication and interpersonal skills in social work /
By: Koprowska, Juliet
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Series: Transforming social work practice: Publisher: Exeter : Learning Matters, 2010Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xi, 191 p. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1844456102; 9781844456109:; 9781844456109.Subject(s): Communication in social work![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Communication skills : don't they just come naturally? -- What do we know about effective communication? -- The human face of social work : understanding emotions, intentions and nonverbal communication -- Getting started -- Making progress and managing endings -- Communicating with children -- Working with families and groups -- Working with people with 'special communication needs' : communicative minorities -- Safety and risk : working with hostility and deception -- 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.