Negotiation and Professional Relationship-Building Skills (LUSDK_208)
About Study Course
Objective
To improve students’ knowledge and practical skills in the establishment of professional relationships and conversation in social work with different groups of clients. To build understanding of professional communication and art of reasoning to bypass client’s resistance.
To obtain knowledge of motivational interviewing, to create and develop skills for the use of motivational conversations in practice in work with clients. To identify key aspects in individual counselling and interaction with the group in the process of behavioural change. To promote students’ understanding of the basic principles of professional relationships. To provide students with the opportunity to promote communication management abilities and skills in practical training.
Prerequisites
Communication psychology; group psychology
Learning outcomes
Students know the approaches of communication psychology and the possibilities of using them in leading a conversation. Understand the concepts of professional contact, reasoning, professional relationships and their specifics in the social care and social rehabilitation environment.
Students can reason their opinions, use communication techniques to lead a conversation, as well as listen professionally.
Students are competent to integrate guidelines for theoretical concepts of communication psychology into the practical process of conversation and establishment of professional relationships.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social work, SD | 5 | Bachelor’s | Required | Daina Vanaga |
