Gifts From the Heart - Skills for Speaking, Listening, and Bonding

Gifts from the Heart is a friendly, concise, and easy-to-read book that helps students learn, practice, and improve ten fundamental communication skills needed for any long-term relationship. This edition offers practical approaches to building and strengthening relationships in a technological age that often discourages face-to-face interactions.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Giving in Relationships
Chapter 2 Accepting Yourself and Others
Chapter 3 Communicating for Connection
Chapter 4 Listening for Understanding
Chapter 5 Asking Questions
Chapter 6 Flowing with Conflict
Chapter 7 Forgiving Others
Chapter 8 Enlarging Others
Chapter 9 Showing You Care
Chapter 10 Encouraging Growth

About the author

Randy Fujishin is professor emeritus at West Valley College, where he worked as a counselor in the student mental health center and taught communication and clinical psychology for thirty-eight years. He is a family and child therapist, conference speaker, and author of several books in the field of human communication, including The Art of Communication, Creating Effective Groups, and Discovering the Leader Within.

Summary

Gifts from the Heart is a friendly, concise, and easy-to-read book that helps students learn, practice, and improve ten fundamental communication skills needed for any long-term relationship. This edition offers practical approaches to building and strengthening relationships in a technological age that often discourages face-to-face interactions.

Product details

• Authors: Randy Fujishin, Fujishin Randy
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781538107393
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0739-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SELF-HELP / Communication & Social Skills, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Communication Studies, counseling;family;friends;marriage;technology