Interpersonal Skills for Helping Professionals : An Interactive Online Guide for Students (Blackboard Version)

by Palmer, Beverly B.

• ISBN13: 9780205386673
• ISBN10: 0205386679
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Help your students develop the interpersonal skills necessary for all helping relationships by providing them with access to this interactive Web site.This maximally interactive and mastery-based online supplement develops the interpersonal skills necessary for all human relationships: counseling, communication, conflict resolution, and intercultural competencies. Developed by counselor educators for educators and their students, Interpersonal Skills for Helping Professionals features the most advanced educational technology and instructional design available today.Most faculty will be using a main textbook in the course, and this online supplement will augment and enrich that text, offering pre-loaded course material in an interactive and experiential format. To make use of this supplement even easier for instructor and students, the author provides chapter correlations for several widely-used main texts.The physical product shipped to college bookstores will consist of a 32-page Interactive Guide for Students (0-205-38667-9) which contains an access code to the Web site. The Web site houses all content within either the Pearson CourseCompass course management tool or the Blackboard course management format (instructor's choice).Instructors may use Interpersonal Skills for Helping Professionals "as is" for a ready-made supplementary mini-course in counseling or communication skills, or they can customize it by adding their own content, Web links, and images. They may personalize this modular, mastery-based course to meet individual student needs by using its rich set of tools such as course management and tracking of student progress, threaded discussion groups, and integrated e-mail.

Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Barriers to Communication.

Lesson 2: Opening and Closing Interactions.

Lesson 3: Paraphrasing Skills.

Lesson 4: Empathizing Skills.

Lesson 5: Giving Feedback and Clarifying Skills.

Lesson 6: Directing and Questioning Skills.

Lesson 7: Cultural and Gender Filters.

Lesson 8: Interpretation and Confrontation Skills.

Lesson 9: Reframing and Allowing Silence Skills.

Lesson 10: Self-Disclosing and Assertive Responding Skills.

Lesson 11: Resolving Conflict Skills.

Lesson 12: Integration of Skills and Crisis Intervention.