This book emphasizes that interpersonal communication and human relations are one of four generic life skills. Core conditions of empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, appropriate self-disclosure, confrontation, and immediacy are addressed and applied chapter by chapter. Scales for each of the above are included so that trainers can learn how to rate their level of functioning on each condition and globally. Issues of the changing roles of educators and applications of multicutural-related issues in schools and the classroom are also discussed. Counselors, school psychologists, social workers, teachers, administrators, special education personnel, student personnel, and parents.
Features Provides a proven model for acquisition and practice of interpersonal communication skills.
Contains practice exercises with answer keys. Provides a vocabulary of affective adjectives. Looks at the changing teacher roles and the inclusion of special education students in mainstreamed classes. Deals with the need for a multicultural perspective by teachers. Use of Models.