Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social Work

This book offers students a solid grounding in the core knowledge and skills of communication needed for effective practice. It takes the key theories and explains them in a systematic and practice-related way, to help undergraduate and postgraduate students develop a critical understanding of the subject.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Juliet Koprowska, Koprowska Juliet
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2024
• EAN: 9781529626001
• ISBN: 978-1-5296-2600-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 660 g
• Series: Transforming Social Work Practice Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work, Soft skills and dealing with other people, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework, For vocational / professional education / training