Books like Human communication by Stewart L. Tubbs

An enlighting look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this book uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace. Guidance is provided on identifying and articulating feelings and needs, expressing anger fully, and exploring the power of empathy in order to speak honestly without creating hostility, break patterns of thinking that lead to anger and depression, and communicate compassionately. These nonviolent communication skills are fully explained and can be applied to personal, professional, and political differences. Included in the new edition is information on how to compassionately connect with oneself.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nine years after the first edition, key scholars in the discipline redefine the field of interpersonal communication with the second edition of the Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. New chapters, which represent areas of central concern today, focus on culture and meaning, supportive communication, and health care. Part I lays out the key theoretical and methodological issues and the second part focuses on component parts or growth processes, verbal and nonverbal behavior, situational and cultural influences, and the characteristics each communicator brings to an encounter. Part III examines mutual influence and temporal processes and asks the question: What is interpersonal competence? This part also looks at several functions of interpersonal processes such as social support, affect, influence, and power. The last section examines interpersonal processes in four important and familiar relational contexts: coworkers, physician/patient, families, and other personal/social relationships. Completely revised and updated, the Handbook of Interpersonal Communication, Second Edition is a must for students, scholars, and professionals of communication studies, sociology, and social psychology.