Person-Centred Communication: Theory, Skills And Practice

Content: Person-centred communication: Theory, skills and practice
 Person-centred communication: Theory, skills and practice
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 Contents
 Foreword
 Preface
 Part I Theory and skills
 1 Introduction
 A comment on the examples
 Starting point, delineation and potential
 Objective
 Basics and core attitudes
 Intercultural validity
 The path being the goal
 2 Communication basics and neuroscience
 Influence of our inner world
 Case study
 What neuroscience research tells us
 Summary
 3 What is person-centredcommunication?
 Person-centred communication and the iceberg model. Characterizations of person-centred communicationSummary
 4 Attentiveness, listening, understanding, sharing
 What does it mean to listen well?
 Active listening
 Barriers to active listening
 Listening to oneself
 Listening to yourself
 Appropriate sharing
 Summary
 5 Characteristics of personcentred communication
 Humanistic view of the person
 Person-centred communication is attitude-based
 Person-centred communication is relationship-driven
 Person-centred communication is development-process-oriented
 Consequences
 Person-centred communication transcends culture
 Summary
 Part II Practice. 6 Person-centred communication in counselling and psychotherapyThe person-centred therapeutic relationship and process
 Groups in person-centred psychotherapy
 Person-centred communication in instruction
 Other relationships
 Summary
 7 Dialogue
 Dialogue and its relationship to active listening
 Bohm's theory of dialogue
 What we need for successful dialogues and congruent relationships
 What dialogue leads to
 Summary
 8 Online person-centred communication
 Constraints to communicating online
 Potential of communicating online
 Online communication and person-centred attitudes. Comparing online and face-to-face person-centred communicationSome observations and insights from the author's personal experience
 Summary
 9 Person-centredcommunication in writing
 Understandability according to Langer, Schulz von Thun and Tausch
 Characteristics of Carl Rogers' writing
 Summary
 Part III Experiential learning
 10 Communication in person-centred technologyenhanced learning
 Person-centred learning
 Integration of new learning technologies
 Reflection and feedback --
face to face and online
 Reflection and its contribution to significant learning
 Summary
 Further reading. 11 Person-centred encounter groupsOrigins
 Characteristic features of encounter groups
 Changes after taking part in encounter groups
 The group process
 Excerpts from participants' reaction sheets
 The group process in dialogue and person-centred encounter groups: a comparison
 International participants and diversity groups
 Summary
 Part IV Conclusion
 12 Personal reflections
 13 'Thanks!'
 Bibliography
 Index.