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A Pastor's Guide to Interpersonal Communication

The Other Six Days

• By Andrew J. Weaver, Blake J. Neff

• Price: $24.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 256
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 4th May 2006
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-2666-8

About the Book

Improving your powers of communication can encourage powerful communication with your parishioners

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.

While many pastors have a great love for the people they minister to, they have difficulty demonstrating that love because they lack the skills to develop and maintain relationships. A Pastor’s Guide to Interpersonal Communication: The Other Six Days explores how communication works and how to make it work for you, applying the best available interpersonal communications techniques to your relationships with the real people of the church—your parishioners.

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

• how self-disclosure works and when it’s appropriate for a pastor
  
• stumbling blocks and building blocks for effective listening
  
• the differences between power, assertiveness, and dominance and when to use each
  
• conflict management styles and negotiation strategies
  
• several myths about forgiveness
  
• dual relationships and how to avoid them
  
• pitfalls to avoid in pastoral family communication
  
• and much more

A Pastor’s Guide to Interpersonal Communication: The Other Six Days is an essential resource for Bible college students and for students at the pre-ministerial and seminary levels. It’s also a valuable professional tool for clergy practitioners who need help with their communication skills.

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
• About the Author
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Chapter 1. Interpersonal Pastoral Communication
  
• Keys to Improving Interpersonal Skills
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 2. Models of Communication
  
• Linear Model
  
• Interactional Model
  
• Transactional Model
  
• Pastoral Interpersonal Communication Concepts
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 3. Perception
  
• The Perception Process
  
• Interpretive Guidelines
  
• Perceptual Shortcuts
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 4. Self-Disclosure
  
• Self-Disclosure Defined
  
• How Self-Disclosure Works
  
• Why Do Pastors Self-Disclose?
  
• Why Don’t Pastors Self-Disclose?
  
• Encouraging Others to Self-Disclose
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 5. Verbal Messages
  
• The Nature of Words
  
• Gossip: A Word Better Left Unspoken
  
• Confidentiality: A Limit on Pastoral Words
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 6. Nonverbal Messages
  
• Appearance
  
• Gestures and Body Movements
  
• Facial Expressions and Eye Behavior
  
• Vocalics
  
• Space and Territoriality
  
• Touch
  
• Time
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 7. Listening
  
• Stumbling Blocks to Listening
  
• Building Blocks to Listening
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 8. Stages of Relational Development
  
• General Relational Stages
  
• Initial Interaction
  
• Relationship Building
  
• Relationship Maintenance
  
• Relationship Dissolution
  
• Final Interaction
  
• Further Considerations
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 9. Power, Assertiveness, and Dominance
  
• Power
  
• Assertiveness
  
• Dominance
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 10. Managing Conflict
  
• The Nature of Conflict
  
• Constructive or Destructive Conflict?
  
• Conflict Management Styles
  
• Negotiation Strategies
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 11. Forgiveness
  
• Forgiveness Myths
  
• The Forgiveness Process
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 12. Persuasion
  
• The Nature of Persuasion
  
• Ethical Persuasion
  
• Elements of Persuasion
  
• Theories of Persuasion
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 13. Dual Relationships
  
• Pastor/Counselor
  
• Pastor/Lover
  
• Pastor/Family Member
  
• Pastor/Friend
  
• Pastor/Former Pastor
  
• Preventions
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• Chapter 14. Pastor, Partner, Parent
  
• Pitfalls to Pastoral Family Communication
  
• Resources for Pastoral Family Communication
  
• Key Concepts
  
• Meanings Mania
  
• Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication
  
• References

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