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Identifying and learning interpersonal skills

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The need for interpersonal skills in health professionals is clear and easily articulated; we need them in order to get on with others and to help them. As Martin Buber (1958) at length points out: we exist as selves-in-relation; we need other people as much as they need us. Not to be interpersonally skilled as a health care professional is to be ineffective as a health care professional. If you did not believe that interpersonal skills are important, it is doubtful that you would be reading this book.

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Burnard, P. (1989). Identifying and learning interpersonal skills. In: Teaching Interpersonal Skills. Therapy in Practice Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7104-3_3

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