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Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social Work

  • ISBN-13: 9781529626001
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
  • By Juliet Koprowska
  • Price: AUD $195.00
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  • Local release date: 27/04/2024
  • Format: Hardback (246.00mm X 171.00mm) 288 pages Weight: 660g
  • Categories: Social work [JKSN]
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Communication and interpersonal skills are an essential part of practice. Taking a skills-based approach, this book looks at research, theories, approaches and processes, demonstrating how they relate directly to practice. It will help you to understand the benefits that good communication skills can bring to your work with children and families, adults, groups, and those with communication difficulties.
Juliet Koprowska was a Senior Lecturer Social Work at the University of York until 2018, and then an Honorary Fellow. She is Chair of GAPS (promoting psychodynamic, systemic and relationship-based approaches to social work). She is a registered social worker and a Licensed Systems-Centered (R) Practitioner. Her most recent research is into talk in social work.
Chapter 1: Communication skills: don't they just come naturally? Chapter 2: What do we know about effective communication? Chapter 3: The human face of social work: understanding emotion and non-verbal communication Chapter 4: Getting started Chapter 5: Making progress and managing endings Chapter 6: Communicating with families Chapter 7: Communicating with children Chapter 8: Working with people with additional communication needs: communicative minorities Chapter 9: Working with groups Chapter 10: Working with involuntary clients Chapter 11: Safety and risk: working with hostility and deception Chapter 12: The demands and rewards of interpersonal work
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