How Then Shall We Live: Values for Interpersonal Communication is a hybrid between a standard college text in interpersonal communication and a book that will enable you to understand the communication patterns and habits that can make or break your life. No other skill is being identified today in business, education, medicine, and the helping professions as a need in human growth and development more than interpersonal communication. But interpersonal skills without VALUES will only serve to technically prepare people for experiences that quite naturally require them to understand and integrate values into the way they communicate. This is why values are the focus of this first values-based text in the field of speech communication.

Part One: The Path

1 Values: Foundation for Communication

Part Two: The Process

2 Understanding Communication: The Challenge of Human Discourse

3 Listening: A Guide to a Fair Hearing

4 Perception: Seeing Through the Prism of Truth

5 Verbal and Nonverbal Communication: Streams of Consciousness

Part Three: The Person

6 The Self: The Journey Inward

7 Self-Disclosure: The Journey Outward

8 Emotions: Discovering Our Deeper Selves

Part Four: The Purpose

9 Relationships: The Bridge to Others

10 Conflict: From Struggle to Resolution