This Reader provides a comprehensive collection of literature that aims to enable those involved in care services, as workers, carers or service users, to reflect on their everyday interactions and to situate them in wider contexts. Including new material from the frontline of research and practice, as well as some classic readings, this wide-ranging volume emphasises the need to see interpersonal communication as embedded in relationships, and to take account of issues of power and diversity, as well are, the book is concerned with caring, professional and inter-professional communication and relationships.

- The Reader is divided into four sections, focusing on:
- concepts and contexts
- analysing aspects of communication
- the person in the process
- communication and relationships in organisations

Communication, Relationships and Care will be an essential resource for students of social work, nursing, health and social policy, and for all involved in health and social care services, whether as professionals, carers or service users. It is a set book for the Open University's second level undergraduate course Communication and Relationships in Health and Social Care (K205)

Contents:
Introduction 1. Communication, relationships and care: the changing context 2. Themes and issues in communication and relationships 3. Developing good practice 4.Communication and relationships in care organisations.