Juliet Koprowska

Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social Work

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although communication and interpersonal skills are widely-taught as a core element of the social work degree, understanding the theory and processes around them can be a challenge. This book starts with the fundamentals and looks at individual theories and approaches, relating them directly to social work practice. This approach will help you to understand the benefits that good communication skills can bring to your practice placements and work with clients. The content is grounded in social work practice and is totally skills-focused. There are new sections on groupwork, working with vulnerable clients and communicating effectively with children. Key updates: 1. A new chapter on working with groups 2. A revised chapter on working with families 3. More material on emotional intelligence 4. More material on relationship based social work series. All books in the series are affordable, mapped to the Social Work Curriculum, practical with clear links between theory & practice and

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Learning Matters
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9781446282311
• ISBN-10: 1446282317
• Artikelnr.: 40924360

Autorenporträt

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® Practitioner. Her most recent research is into talk in social work.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Non-Verbal Communication
Getting Started
Making Progress and Managing Endings
Communicating Children
Working with Families
Working with Groups
Working with People with Additional Communication Needs: Communicative
Minorities
Safety and Risk: Working with Hostility and Deception
The Demands and Rewards of Interpersonal Work

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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 children and families
Chapter 7: Working with groups
Chapter 8: Working with people with additional communication needs: communicative minorities
Chapter 9: Working with involuntary service users
Chapter 10: Safety and risk: working with hostility and deception
Chapter 11: The demands and rewards of interpersonal work

Rezensionen

The text covers many areas for consideration including brain development, human emotion, listening skills, reflection, methods of contact, working with groups, and groups of individual experiences such as people who may be seeking asylum or people who have additional support and communication needs. Koprowska layers the different contexts and considerations of practice in an accessible and structured way. Louise Henry Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care - Vol 19, No 3 20201118