Satisfactions: 7 Relationship Skills You Need to Know - Couverture souple

Gerlach, MSW, Peter K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0738869600 ISBN 13 : 9780738869605

Editeur : Xlibris, 2003

Synopsis

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Premise: From newborn infants to dying adults, we all communicate to reduce local discomforts - i.e. to "fill current needs." Doing that promotes satisfaction. Anything you do that causes a significant emotional-spiritual-physical-mental change in another person can be called communication. Thus it is impossible to "not communicate" with other people, for silence and inactivity cause reactions and presumed meanings. The quality of your life and key relationships depends largely on the effectiveness of the way you communicate - yet you probably don´t know what you need to know about this vital life skill. To reality check that proposal, mull these five challenges:

1) Name a learned skill that you rely on more often than communicatingto get your daily and special needs met. Note that thinking is internal communication.

2) How do you distinguish between effective and ineffective communication? If you´re not sure, how can you tell if you´re communicating effectively in situations you deem important?"

3) On a scale of 1 (totall

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter has spent over 17,000 hours in clinical, phone, and classroom consultation with members of ~1,000 typical Midwestern divorced families and stepfamilies since 1981. He is an invited member of the Stepfamily Association of America Board of Directors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Xlibris
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0738869600
• ISBN 13: 9780738869605
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible