UBC Faculty Research and Publications

A Toolkit for Teaching Communication Skills in Social Work Allison, Kelly; Nightbird, Marie

Description

This toolkit includes five videos demonstrating basic communication skills and a teaching guide for instructors. The videos are a series of short vignettes of counselling sessions between a social worker and a client. Four of the videos target one or two basic communication skills so students can learn the skills in manageable segments. The fifth video demonstrates how a counsellor would amalgamate all the skills in a counselling session. The teaching guide provides transcripts, discussion questions and exercises/role plays that instructors can use in both face-to-face and online teaching to enhance student learning of communication skills. OER Description: This video series and workshop/training materials on communication and teaching were developed to support undergraduate lower and upper division students. This open educational resource (OER) includes videos and lesson plans. This toolkit is available at merlot.org. Only the content files are available in cIRcle.

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