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Interpersonal Encounters
Connecting Through Communication


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Interpersonal Communication

May 2022 | 384 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

With a practical and innovative approach, Interpersonal Encounters: Connecting through Communication shows students how interpersonal communication skills can be best used to accomplish everyday relationship goals. Guided by current interpersonal research from diverse authors and study participants, Laura K. Guerrero and Bree McEwan focus on the functions of interpersonal communication in our everyday lives and demonstrate how concepts, theories, and contemporary research apply to building, maintaining, and ending relationships. The book’s unique structure prepares students to become better communicators in their personal and professional lives.

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Chapter 1: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
 
Chapter 2: Performing the Self
 
Chapter 3: First Impressions and Initial Attraction
 
Chapter 4: Communicating Across Cultures
 
Chapter 5: Making and Managing Conversation
 
Chapter 6: Expressing and Managing Emotion
 
Chapter 7: Influencing Others
 
Chapter 8: Initiating and Developing Relationships
 
Chapter 9: Maintaining Quality Relationships
 
Chapter 10: Managing Conflict Communication
 
Chapter 11: Coping with Transgressions
 
Chapter 12: Ending Relationships
 
Capstone Chapter: Connections and Conclusions

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This text provides for excellent reading for students undertaking both the mental health nursing programme and for students studying communication module as part of their degree studies in Health and Wellbeing. It has been positively reviewed by the students also in class discussions.

Dr Kevin Moore
School of Nursing (Magee), Ulster University
October 11, 2022