A Pastor's Guide to Interpersonal Communication: The Other Six Days

ISBN-13: 9780789026668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 250 str.

Blake J. Neff

Opis

A Pastor's Guide to Interpersonal Communication: The Other Six Days provides students preparing for the pastoral ministry with specialized training in communications that focuses on the kind of one-on-one conversations they can expect to have with their parishioners. This comprehensive book examines a variety of essential topics, including perception, self-disclosure, verbal and nonverbal messages, listening, stages of relational development, power assertiveness and dominance, conflict management, forgiveness, persuasion, dual relationships, pastoral family communication, and how to develop a communications model. Each chapter includes "Pastoral Conversations," real-life dialogues presented for analysis; "Key Concepts" for quick student review; "Meanings Mania," self-tests on vocabulary; and "Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication," student exercises that reinforce the practical aspects of key principles.

Spis treści

Preface. About the Author. Acknowledgments. Interpersonal Pastoral Communication. Models of Communication. Perception. Self-Disclosure. Verbal Messages. Nonverbal Messages. Listening. Stages of Relational Development. Power, Assertiveness, and Dominance. Managing Conflict. Forgiveness. Persuasion. Dual Relationships. Pastor, Partner, Parent. References. Index.

O autorze

Neff, Blake J.